User blog comment:Eldes23/So, are there still many active players here or what?/@comment-26488388-20150624161910

The inactivity of VC players, how I see it, is formed by several factors.

One, VC is starting to lose its appeal. We're seeing every new event just be a carbon copy of a previous one except with different art, and for rankers, the rewards aren't even enticing us to rank at all, besides those who rank just for the sake of ranking. The past large chunk of RRs have been some form of buffer (mostly elemental buffers), which, if you're a new player to rank, elemental buffers probably aren't gonna be the #1 thing on your necessity list. 250% is also such a sad, sad, number, considering summon ele buffers are 400%.

Two, even if VC does introduce new features/event concepts, I can guarantee you they'll be created with the intent of money. For example, removing free BP from FAW or Elemental Hall, for that matter. If you're a free player that regularly ranks, you're being forced to sit out events just because your need to replenish swords (myself included, plus ranking seems so mundane nowadays), and now that EH gives mega points, players are encouraged to spend money to buy keys.

To address your AUB participation concern, it's also a matter that AUB isn't interesting. At all. The playstyle basically pushes you to rod in order to win, and then rod some more because you're being put up against monster-rodding alliances in the next event for rodding a little bit in the previous one. I'll have to admit, AUB rewards are much more enticing than that of RR (Azi or the current Al'mi'raj, for examples). Plus, the times at which AUB is available suck. I myself am not going to drag my poor soul up from sleep at 3AM just to participate in AUB. No.

Also, I don't believe you should be using the VC system to invite players -- certainly not level 100+ players. I believe that by that level you're going to be interested in some kind of form of ranking, whether F/AW or AUB, so many of those players often seek alliances that are well-known for specialize in that category (take many of the alliance recruitment threads on this wiki for example). Also, if you're inviting lower leveled players, on the chance that they do accept, I feel it's likely that they're going to become inactive after a while given how sucky VC now is for newbies, unless of course, they're hardcore casher.

So really, if you want recruitment for VC for players that actually do play actively, your best bet is putting up a thread on the wiki forum or the TCGApp forum.

Don't be discouraged by the inactivity of players now in VC -- it's a really common thing, even seeing longtime players quit over and over again (several of my comrades and amazing FAWTs included), you just gotta push through it, I guess.