Say doom long enough, eventually you'll be right. Congratulations, water is wet. I'm trying to remember what arena numbers were like when I left around 2010... I remember the thought process at the time among other things was numbers here were much better.
Yup on all counts. And while going to 2 sides might help, as I've said all along, citation needed. So far it's 1-0 for 3 sides alleviating the problem I stated elsewhere. Going to 2 sides helping is not as clear-cut and obvious as it's been presented, and I don't see anything to indicate that ENY would work any better than it does now with 2 sides. People don't move, they log.
Wiley.
It's not about saying doom long enough. It's about looking down the tracks and seeing the train coming. I was hit by it once. I know exactly what it looks like.
AH has a benefit of no direct competitor in terms of open-world-persistent-arena but that dog only hunts so long. When a third of your player base is being ignored on the battlefield eventually they quit.
Two sides will alleviate that problem.
Three sides may SEEM to be 1-0 but that's a default judgment based on overflowing arenas. We're not there now. With current numbers any benefit to three sides is easily outweighed by its negative effects.
Any way. People are voting with their feet and an exodus can be a much bigger avalanche than an influx. Time is a wastin' to solve the riddle.