Shrinking community is due to the following main reasons iMO:
No secure logins
No official in game ranks
Difficultly in hosting so no new players hanging around
No new updates in a long time
Too many community leagues which splits the player base
Current community league systems - personally I have zero interest in tus because all rounder league means I've got to play rope schemes in playoffs if I qualified. The vision that MI had for merging all the leagues into 1 overall but allowing single scheme playoffs would resolve this.
Then on top of all of that. The old worm players have all moved on to other games which have better versions of the above or address those issues. Even the old school players now in our 40s, they'll play game or watch tv but won't play worms because of the issues above
No secure logins
No official in game ranks
Difficultly in hosting so no new players hanging around
No new updates in a long time
Too many community leagues which splits the player base
Current community league systems - personally I have zero interest in tus because all rounder league means I've got to play rope schemes in playoffs if I qualified. The vision that MI had for merging all the leagues into 1 overall but allowing single scheme playoffs would resolve this.
Then on top of all of that. The old worm players have all moved on to other games which have better versions of the above or address those issues. Even the old school players now in our 40s, they'll play game or watch tv but won't play worms because of the issues above