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Uhm. I'm pretty sure Spires was averaging about 30 or fewer players daily during peak times after E3's announcement. I quit like four days after the announcement and those are the numbers I remember. I can only imagine how much lower it dipped during the month-long wait.

no, it was 100+ several weeks into it, and there's a screenshot of that on the forums when someone made a similar claim of low pop. you're probably thinking of the last few days

though nobody's claiming that such an announcement doesn't hurt the motivation of existing characters regardless, & that's the main downside. it's a bummer to be enjoying yourself and then hear something like that, and watch as others aren't as active because of it