Has anyone considered the possibility that Hitech just doesn't give a rat's bellybutton at this point?
Consider:
1. As someone recently said, he's made a killing on this game over the years.
2. Since inception, any change of any kind is met with a contingency of support, and a contingency of naysayers. No matter what, he loses customer base.
3. As income subsides, expenses need to be curtailed, i.e. less money for programmers, artists, customer support, etc.
3. HTC has the all the actual data he could possibly shake a stick at, and more but without the human resources needed to augment changes, what's the point.
4. Given the drop in revenues, new income streams (think revitalization via new capital investment) are null.
Frankly speaking, in the past few years there have been scores of ideas and reiteration of previous suggestions,which were mostly ignored. Probably for the fear that they might drive customers away. Now the die's been cast and resources are few to change the direction of a large ship, running out of fuel. Sooner or later the fuel tanks are empty and it will continue to drift. Would anyone disagree we're in the drift stage?