This game has and still will be a wild ride for me.
I love this game to death, and it will always be my favorite fighting game.
Seeing the game grow and die was quite an experience, along with the little peaks of activity the game would have years after when all the veteran players would get on.

I do miss this game dearly, and I do hope that the effort of the members of the community *cough* Placebo *cough* pay off and bring back the game to at least a fragment of what it was.

This game seemed basic on the outside, yet when you played it you would get destroyed almost instantly and it was a shock at first. Then you would watch, see what people did, try to copy it and then fail.
You would fail and fail again until you got so mad that you might ragequit, and many did.
However there were the people that would push on and try to learn how to play.
You would try to learn many techs such as Guard slips, Juggling, Jump Canceling, JLRs, etc.

And then you would finally pull them off. You would have done what you thought was impossible prior to this moment.
And that feeling was amazing.

You would become better, improve and grow, along with the community.

But then the devs announced that they would leave the game and everything stared to fall apart.
The community stayed a bit after, but hope was lost that they would ever come back.
You would only see veterans still playing or new players unaware of what happened to this game playing, unaware that it beame a relic of it's past.
But the game was still great, and fighting against the players still left was fun, but it wasnt the same.

You could feel in the community dying as you played and it was a dreaful feeling. Yet we would presist in hope that the community would make a comeback. But the big revival we wanted hasnt come yet. All that has come are little
hills while we wait for a mountain. Little by little though, we might just pull it back.

But bits of hope showed up for the game, the main person pushing the movement being the player Placebo.
With Placebo's newest post on the announcements (10/10/17) being the biggest hope ive seen for the game in a long time I sincerly hope that the game made some sense of a revival.