Sure, but if you’re on a downward trend for growth and don’t have viable paths to change that, runway is just stopping distance.

I’ve noticed this anxiety on steam reviews too, people seem to stress out if there isn’t a continuous growth of a game’s player base, like there’s a totality that we all need to be striving for, even in a federated space, even in a game’s player base, otherwise any shrinking indicates a spiral. Not that they aren’t real (the spirals) but there’s an aspect of putting the cart before the horse here.

A video game and a social network are pretty massively different things.

This thread is a good example of why you should probably announce things.