The community of OITC is now very small and it's pretty rare to find a full lobby. Nowadays, it's just two players mostly.
I wouldn't say it's dead necessarily, but definitely has become smaller. People still play and try to aim for the top like myself. Whenever I come online in the morning barely anyone is on, or not even anyone at all. Used to be filled with players back in the days, it's sad to see. OITC will always be one of my favorite games, despite how many players play it or not. :)
The real OITC community died with the first reset of stats. There was still community but that died around the start of 2016. So, the community is dead. Well, for this minigame anyways.
This community isn't dead, in fact, it recently received a new member! (*cough* me *cough*) But for many people the game isn't interesting anymore, and the hackers and the toxicness are increasing. And if you look through the past 6 pages of the OITC section, you will see that not many threads are posted (except from that person who literally spammed the section (*cough* nixisawesome *cough*). Old players leave, new players come. I used to play OITC on another big network (and still do) and the community is pretty much alive because it receives new community members. And that's pretty awesome! Just stop crying because old times are gone, look forward to the new times to come, you can't travel into the past like in every science-fiction movie. Old times and members won't come back.
Over the past two years of me playing on this server, I've practically seen it all. Well, it almost feels that way. I got started here around the time iPr0xxy was at the top and I met some good friends that to this day I still talk with. Whether it be Winfurd, Canlemick, LevelSk8er, Beef__Chizzel, Eli, among others, I don't know where they went. The community died in my opinion when all of the big name players from 2014-2015 just stopped playing and moved on with their lives. The OITC community has never really bounced back from that. I feel as if I am just one out of a few that was still around in 2014.
Those names... ;-; Easily the best time for OITC. Beef's 90+ 1v1 win streak, iiPr0xy somehow overtaking Vollx for like a week, I was a cringey 12 year old, good times...
Winfurd quit for LoL. (League of Legends). And Beef is in the Navy. For the others, I'm not sure. (You ain't the only 2013 player :P)
I used to play a lot of OITC in 2015. I'm afraid the community has severely shrunk, and what remains seems to be sad. What we used to call "skill" is now basically whoever can steal the most kills. It is a shame that it is no longer possible to actually play fairly anymore since everyone just steals kills when given the opportunity.
Before, it used to be all full. Often, I won't even be able to see my own name on TAB. I really miss those days... I hope it can someday come back.
I want to say something about that. Kill "stealing" has ALWAYS been apart of OITC. Its not really stealing kills, its just seeing two players mid fight and gaining two or more easy free kills with an arrow or sword. That still takes skill.
Thanks for the post... Now I am getting all nostalgic :( I haven't been on in like a year... I played from basically the beginning until the ELO update