Welcome to the land of dead mods. It's been slow going but Empires put it off for one hell of a long run
Comparing to Mods like "Hidden Source" and "Plan of a Attack" Empires is actually doing alright. It has a good Dev-Team,balancing Updates and a Community. What more do you want?
*nearly dies laughing* Yea and those balance updates were great. The best one was 2.2 The best community in the world!
Eternal Silence, Dystopia, Smashball (sorry Krenzo), PVK, Synergy, DIP.RIP... Seriously, Empires started before all of these, and lasted longer. Garrysmod is the only source mod that has survived longer.
I guess you could say we are surviving but, with a respirator and auto defibrillator(called patches).
You know what they say? "What does not destroy you, makes you stronger." Wah? Dystopia is dead? I really liked that futuristic shit
Dystopia and PVK have people playing right now, but Empires doesn't (they're all playing the beta, riiiight ?)
Empires is still getting full servers at night, we're in a similar position we were in just before we went to steam. Mod is by no means dead. Even if we never updated it again, people would probably still be playing it every night this time in 6 months. But it is getting updated, and PR will be done after said update, so we won't have to worry about that.
I played probably the best normal pub round of Empires in as long as I can remember a few days ago. It didn't take a server full of vets either, most stayed in spec until they saw it was an epic round unfolding. Empires mod is still alive and still has legs, because it doesn't depend on the latest graphics, physics or whatever. Show me the same game on another engine with a higher production quality, then I'll show you the end of Empires in its current guise. Untill that day its not dying, its just getting older.