So a question for the Devs, the CEOs, and my fellow gamers. Is it me or is the community on ICO dying?

I've seen the number online every day dwindle more and more, the peak was well over a month ago that I saw. Am I just crazy or are we losing players day in day out. Are we just never going to have a real community? Just 20-30 guys that know each other and a bunch of random noobs that play for a week and never go back online? Honestly this game has lost almost all of it's appeal for me, for a number of reasons. Less competition, foolish imbalanced changes that could have been averted just by proposing the changes and letting the players actually... Playing the game, novel idea there, give you some input. The game was fun, but again, it has lost almost all of it's appeal for so many reasons.

Other competitors preferably I want your opinions on this, many I've talked to personally and agree on at least some level appeal for sins is fading. Is ICO forever going to be dead? Or are we just to wait and see and hope 1.1 is some amazing super mod that fixes everything and makes all the people that quit come back and new people want to play online? Personally, I doubt I'm around by the time 1.1 rears it's sure to be ugly head if the other patches were any indication. Are we just babied by games like starcraft, CoH, etc that are all great and competitive games and balanced. Or is this taking too long and we're being ignored? I want to give the devs time to fix things, but stuff like the 1.04 illum, the 1.03 market... a lot of different things have shaken any faith in this game. Maybe it'll be balanced in a couple months, maybe a year. But with this saturated market, can it survive that long? Are any of you honestly going to come back if and when it's balanced? Or are we just going to play starcraft two as it will inevitably be looming on the horizon before this game stands a chance at the rate it's going. Or demigod for some of you, whatever floats your boat.

I'm not trying to make a doom post here, but every time I log on ICO and see less people. I worry. Every time I check the forums, and all the talk of strategy and shit talking between clans has nothing new added to it. I worry. Every time I talk to my own clan mates, they say they're busy, playing something else, don't feel like playing sins. I worry. I've put a ton of time into practicing and learning this game inside and out, and I simply do not want to quit, but I hardly even feel like there's a community, maybe I'm missing something, maybe I'm crazy. But to me ICO is a rotting carcass compared to what it was. And it's only decaying more and more.

 I want to hear what you guys think, I want to be wrong. So do it, prove me wrong someone, show me this game isn't dying.

Haeso, fanboy to some, critic to others, hardcore gamer for better or worse to all ~