Simple reason, ie having to put ones phone number in to validate an account is BAD! Additionally I read on the official page that hotmail banned the use of necron or some such but tbh for a new player thats going to make them think that the signup is a scam, just saying.

Anyways just popped on and wandering to people still play, just popped on at 12:30 at night gmt, thing is I know I didnt expect many people but Im sure the server said zero. Its sad because this is still a really good game and I think the phone number thing is REALLY hurting you, and sure you can say it stopps multi accounts, well not really actually because many people have multiple phones

Anyways hope to hear from some people that still play as I would be sad despite my despair at how silly the signup system is if this game were going down to be forgotten about