look at all the old posts. (Like REALLY OLD)
hardly any of them were related to the game. now that we have such a number of regular posters, we have no reason to leave. even if there is less on topic discussion.
I had this thought when I joined though. I didn't join till I think early 2008, and there was all that talk about the game coming out soon. I thought I had missed all the good parts of the forum and I was just getting the end. I also remember, before the C&D, before anything was heard from phoenix, not really that long ago (wow), when the forum was just about dead. Like 1 post per day, total.
then the C&D came out and that brought life to the forum, and soon brought back life to the game with the whole savetsl thing.
good times. now it feels like I have been here for a LONG time.
Still though, this forum exists because of TSL. Almost all the threads (except in the Asylum) are TSL-related.
there ya go.
who cares why the forum exists? we still have the community!