The game is not dying or doing that good, the game is fine but could be better. From a higher rank pov you don't have much to do other than arena, sadly that's sm is, as a new to mid rank player campaign and upgrading items is very hard, takes time and keeps them around. Most people have only quit because flash died, but that doesn't mean sm died to, there are so many other ways to play sm that don't use flash, not many people at lower ranks which make up a good amount of sm are even on the forum so you don't know what they're doing, if you only look at the forum then the game is dying, but if you look at all the other parts of the game the the game is doing fine.