Back in the day, there were not many games to choose from.
Now there's a lot of different options with way bigger companies and tons of money which means more advertising towards those games.
Besides, the gaming community isn't playing as many 2D games anymore which means Tibia isn't attracting new players anymore, hence why people growing up and leaving the Tibia makes the community smaller.
Actually, that's not true. There used to be MORE game developers in the 90's. Don't you remember Circuit City and CompUsa? There was "Buy only copy" games going for $2000 and tons of RTS's I remember vividly. in the 90's when Tibia was growing playerbase up hard there was TONS of new games all the time. TODAY.. I hardly see that many for PC. Its all Private servers of older games. WoW(world of warcraft) prolly still has tons of private servers. Dekaron Rising instead of 2moons(which closed quick btw). There used to be tons of games I don't recall that were MMO games that were free to play back around 2000-2008.
Now its just new copy of distro. Bf5. lol. That's 5 versions updated and a few off trail versions(bad company's) and a few expansions. Call of duties. Anything not PC which is on xbox versions or playstation versions are usually kids games or directed for kids like Spyro type beatable games. Crash bandicoot. etc All that gunfire on systems isn't like Arma3(Reality based) or AA(Americas Army) versions. There's games today, by enough measure by the 90's had more games out. Like I said, private developers from oldschool coders and all the way up to 2000. Then there was tons of wars and there will be more wars and 10 Big world powers are at war now, heck, the USA is still fighting in Afghanistan, intervening in Syria and there's a base that does "work" in Iraq. lolz. Whenever there is this much war, Russia Annexing all its provinces back from when its capital was Kiev. There was Boko haram crisis not many years ago, the US intervened in some Nation of Africa. Too much war for people to be
"Fun and enjoying life while working a day job" which used to be the US dream and other nations dreamed with the US. I mean heck. Russia killed off a few spies and their families lately lol. (last 3 months) One was a double agent from Britain I think. Then there was that small story that went away on the net where the US airstriked 100 russian soldiers in Syria near a chemical weapons plant I think, either way they killed 100 soldiers and SoS Pompeo just mocked. Don't think countries aren't going to have more war. War creates homelessness, poverty, gangs and the removal of it eventually. With all the chaos at the border to the US from the Mexico side, I have to say, those gangs in South America that I saw pics of on the DarkWeb like 200,000 out of jail systems shaking hands in a long line. That doesn't look healthy. That alone would push citizens out of countries. And then there is civil wars I've heard lately from my dad somewhere like Guatemala? Without peace, therell be no binging enough on videogames for "The Good Life". Its all war and politics man. Trump taxing the crap out of all exports and doing economic combat is pissing off China, Russia and then there is that thing with all of Africa praying for a proper government in each nation so they can live and not be starved. The world is in chaos today. Its the 2nd cold war. And its basically and ironically more cold from the USA point of view towards NK(North Korea). Boka Haram, Al queda, Isis, North Korea, killing off hoards of christians. China just made internment camps for ueghers(I don't know much about them) 1 million people segregated into internment camps. Jesus said there would be wars and rumors of wars. Well there you go
. Don't forget that everything is on debt. People work there asses off after the Wallstreet protests. College debt is big in Brazil too I bet. Its all politics and economic behavior that makes people play games or not. There's still terrorism all over Europe and when more of the world legalizes marijuana, people all over the world will play more videogames again PC or otherwise. lol. There is quite a few factors to the big picture of what is happening in the world that contributes to less people playing videogames and less players in Tibia therefore less in the private server versions of it(ots). I'm struggling to get money right now. The US is more of a dangerous place today, its not as nice. They separated families at the border and some kids were molested. The US is harsh on crime, no more leniency. Some judge tried to put me in jail for eating poppyseeds that came up as morphine on a urine test, poppyseeds come from the poppy plant and seeds are separated from the opium liquid so there's trace amounts after washing the seeds. But she knew that's how it was, just a poppyseed bagel I ate and she wanted to kill me. The US SEEMS like a nice place. But just meet one person sometimes and your life is ruined. There is a vast majority of angry people in the US and if you rub them just one way, theyll want you dead no matter how nice of a person you are. People aren't as friendly in the US anymore. The US used to populate a lot of RL Tibia's servers. All the divorces, up to 3-6 divorces these crazy people divorce like they didn't even have sex once with eachother. It's supposed to be love. Kids aren't loved and taught, its always parents fighting and in and out of jail. Single moms everywhere. Don't think if you've got money, the US is good for immigration for people. They'll just stick you in a renovated walmart until you are deported to somewhere they consider, "safe" if you run to the border. Taking the paperwork route from the official immigration standpoint, its not that great of a place. Everyone is on their tippitoes with eachother to not offend eachother and goto jail. I'm old for my age man. I've studied much. There's too much chaos in the world for videogames. Growing up has less to do with it than you think, but that's yours and some other's reasons. I get that. That's cool. Let's not forget that Iran prayers at the temple there, they yell "Death to US" every day. And there's Israel proof GOD exists, they won the land after a 6 day war. Some years, some time in the 2000's-2010's Egypt had a Coup of their government. It toppled. Reporters were raped. There was riots. The world isn't that safe of a place. One bad encounter and its over. Why do you think there is Jews in every nation? So if the go back to Israel, they have every countries information and can plan a proper defense, plus they like living in other countries. They always plan escape routes. If ISIS hates the US, Israel is WAY more targetted. Israel sells a lot of computer companies to the US. With the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem, its just strengthening both nations, the US and Israel for war and Israel just put out their new tanks for killing insurgents. Eh.. 5 days ago on the news. When they secure their borders more and kick out all the muslims, GOD will bless them with borders larger. Israelis would play videogames too if there was no war. There's still non-jewish structures in Israel, they are biding their time to remove their enemies from within their midsts. and I'm not talking about non-violent nice muslims from Dearborn, Mi who are delusioned by their system of religion and don't know Jesus. In Israel, the muslims are basically sworn enemies and removed when beat their wives. That's just one of their districts. On another side of Israel its all palestinian insurgents digging tunnels and trying to kill all of Israel lol. They train their kids at age 3 to do full US marine-like door kick-ins and war drills. Look it all up, I didn't list any links. But its out there on the web. Its all in new stories. Google xD.
War. War is my point. War means no videogames. Just hope the US and North Korea don't fight, because then China will help North Korea. I'm fairly certain Iran is allies with NK as well. If China enters into a war in the world, its world war 3. Then there won't even be computers! There will be bombed buildings lol.
. Knowledge is key to understanding.