I think gaming does keep us younger, it's a great point. Earl is really inspirational to me, being so sharp and savvy and a competitive gamer - I hope that's me someday, and many of the guys I know and have worked with, in some pretty serious jobs, are huge, huge gamers.
I like reading AH's member's stories about how they got into gaming, this game in particular, the events in their lives, squad life, and so on. The community is very important in a game like this, it's a premier product, I won't call it a niche game as it's bigger than that IMO, but it certainly is like being in the "luxury and/or sports car" category where most other games of this type are just mass transit. It attracts a certain type of person and gamer, and those types of people are interesting.
Seeing Kazaa, Mitsu, so many others coming out of the woodwork, what I look forward to the most is seeing some of the old friends, guys I learned from, come back to check out AH3.
As an other said very accurately, AH2 has been a security blanket, that old pilllow you just don't want to replace with a new one, even if you would sleep 10x better with it, something about human nature wants to hang on just a bit. I think for myself I'm over that with AH2 now, and I'm ready 100% for AH3, but will absolutely have a lot of great memories playing AH2.
