Here's something else I'd like to say:

Our resource wasn't always, um, how to put it without offending others — let's just say "leading" in the post-Soviet space. When I first came here, we were firmly behind "bai" in terms of gameplay quality, and behind the portal not only in gameplay quality (though not as much as behind "bai"), but also in terms of numbers and activity on the resource.

Times have changed — from "bai" only the glorious name and the dinosaurs remain, who periodically prove their professional competence. But even they will die out sooner or later. HP has also lost its position.

I tried to analyze why this happened — many factors certainly played a role, but the main one, in my opinion, was that HeroesWorld somehow managed to find a balance that took into account the interests of different types of Heroes players. Democracy, I guess, even though I don't like that term.

"Bai" doomed itself to extinction by abandoning SOD in favor of the much more progressive and balanced TE — as a result, newcomers didn't come, and the old-timers were destined for the path to poker.

On the portal, it somehow wasn't even possible to grasp how, but the line between the interests of different layers of Heroes players was lost.

For the survival of a resource, especially a resource for a game that's already prehistoric by modern standards, what's important are not tournaments, gatherings, debates, discussions, etc., but the influx of fresh blood. Sooner or later, even those who can already be called veterans will say goodbye to Heroes, and their places need to be taken by newcomers.

Damn, that came out awkward and pompous, but screw it. Anyway, what this all boils down to: if you set some rigid frameworks, restrictions, and in this case don't take into account the interest of the majority, then the forum will slide back to the same level it started from, if not just write "gg"