Sorry about that ^
Without doubt the rubbish that was Ghosts and issues arising from PS3/PS4 transition must have made a big difference on the forum, after all CoD brought us together, and playing CoD together bonded us.
I'm hoping Advanced Warfare will be good, people will enjoy it and the forum will get new lease of life, in the same way Warframe and Destiny have to an extent done, although with smaller audiences. Playing Destiny with a full forum party at the weekend was great and I'm jealous of that American Raiding party from last night
But the fact is we have dropped members, hopefully temporarily with AW bringing them back, and not had many new recruits - only real new major contributor for years is James (I think) - I wonder how he found us, and clearly saw something he liked. (Thanks for all the T&A posts as well James, good work!)
The PS3/PS4 thing didn't help, but equally the Xbox crew all realised the error of their ways and have brought some numbers back to the on-line parties
Here's hoping for a good CoD