Obviously none of the staff/people here want to forum to die out.

However, YGO in general seems to have lost a lot of its popularity and not many people here seem to be that interested (myself included).

We tried to get the forum back to how it was a few years ago due to such memories, but maybe it's time we let the memories stay as it is.

Unless the YGO game itself picks up, I don't think there is much CEA, or any other forum can do.

lol what exactly do you expect from staff to do about it, its not their fault that the players don't want to play their events or on the other hand there are no events to play in.

What's the lol about i never said it was the staffs fault & decato your comment is true but CEA needs newer members since there is not much of the older ones left dueling just look at my new academy it went from 0 members to 72 members mostly by devpro chats & server messages also there is RDA which restarted recently both can do daily events there is no reason CEA can't do it mostly just needs an active admin so staff can change things my forum did most things with 4 staff but that was with a active Admin CEA was always going to die again without one there is only so much the staff can do without the ability to make changes

Darn it, I checked back and was happy to see CEA back, but with the great (cough) number of events going on here, it seems, it got back a month and began to get worse after. I'd like to ask this question that can't be answered with precision: How long will it take for this specific website for YGO to get back to what it was, even if it is just what it was in 2013.

It is impossible unless the community picks up YGO activity I'm afraid. We can have a forum with tons of events (which we don't I'm afraid)/wars/whatever, we had difficulty finding enough people for my BC tournament alone; and most of them were staff/those who stayed with us for years.

I know it's maybe a bit out of the topic, but what made CEA close for 10 months last year?

I'm wandering what would someone registering here, today, without knowing CEA's situation would think of this academy.

It sure does look like it.

Things took long to set up for a reason that was out of anyone's hand. First of all, I don't believe there was anything that we regular staff could do that we didn't do.

The second thing is that Sabb was busy with work(which is understandable of course) .. I understand that y'all have patience and I admit that things were coming slow but no one ever questioned about why were things coming slow in the first place which lead to the current state.

Aang and myself were helping with the war section as best as we could, we took care of all the old wars/bas and we even had an idea for a Tag arena with it's separate record and sub-forum from the regular arena duels. Pyro, Dragoon and Jaaden were basically helping with everything that is left. We had 3 threads in the staff section detailing the new system that was going to replace the dorms but it wasn't ready yet.

@dubina You have 527 posts .. Is one, if any of those posts productive to the forum in any way?

Slade wrote:

@dubina You have 527 posts .. Is one, if any of those posts productive to the forum in any way?

lol how exactly did I end up being part of your post lol. and lol you are welcomed to go over those 527 posts and get back here about your findings regarding the productivity of my posts lol but I mostly sure that you wont find any lol

Does someone knows why it seems to be worse now than in January?

Liyana wrote:

lol dub aha

So the bottom line is you can't solely rely on staff, the community has to chip in as well, more so now since cea just came back up a few months ago. You can't expect it to have the activity it once did over night, its going to take some time. But as Dec ygo seems to be dying, though i doubt its the whole reason cea's dead, just one of the many.
As for events, you can rely on the staff, but there is an item in the shop that allows you to make your event and I don't anyone has actually bought it or tried to at least host their own?. Just saying aha,

But yeah good luck

I disagree. It's the staff's job and purpose to provide a nice and interesting environment for members to be active in. This wasn't-- and still hasn't been created, so people lost interest (again).

Well, in my opinion I think Liyana has a point, a staff without members is as useful as members without staff.

Now apply that same logic to what I said and you'll see where it went wrong.

Keep in mind that members don't have an obligation to stay if it is uninteresting; would you rather see a live performance of a band sitting on their behinds and doing absolutely nothing, or see a live performance of a band playing music? It's up to the staff to start playing music for members to enjoy.

I heard that you had administration experience from other places, Nick. I am sure you understand that all the staff in the world can't do a thing without at least one admin.

It looks inevitable that this is the end. For me pendulum summoning and multi field spells finished my interest in the game. I would like to thank all those who at least tried to bring the forum back to life and I'm sorry its not been enough. For me it was not the band that sat on their arse's but the stage crew who weren't willing to do their part to make things rock.

Wish you all, all the best and hope you find something that suits you!

Luv Izzy

Is that me or is everytime there is a topic speaking of CEA being in a bad situation, there is a lot of people on that topic?

academies are dying out mostly because it's just easier to contact and duel with friends via skype, than it is to hang around in a forumotion chatbox that logs you out after a period of inactivity.

I say in the future their will be no point in forums because, people are just going to stop playing ygopro.

Not enough drive is all, gotta want it