welcome to the forum!
well I don't know if you checked on it back in 2005, but it nearly got shut down back then by vivindi, and cat (koko_99_2001) and some other people got a petition going and managed to convince them to allow the game to go on. ("king's quest" had to be taken out of the title, though)
then last year, around feb or march, (actually I think it may have been before that, but that's when it was announced) activision, the new owner of the sierra name shut them down. A few of us from the forums started another petition... I may not be remembering everyone but me, waltz, and oberonqa mostly ran this one, if i remember right. Waltzdancing went on to join the POStudios team.