Don't worry, this is not a whine-thread.
(Re-posting what I already wrote yesterday in the shoutbox)
The Thing is, when old vCoH was like 1 or 2 years old, there were already people saying " ded gaem ", and what happened? The playerbase was pretty decent till coh2 came out, in order to switch over. CoH isn't dying anywhere, but there's always people saying it lol (why?)
Playerbase oscillation is normal, and there are WW 2 RTS fanboys out there, in those cases is CoH2 nearly the only possible choice. That's what people just dont get, the playerbase will never die
Currently, we have up to 10k Players online during the weekends (and it's summer atm in Europe/NA!), which is standard for CoH since many years, ALSO the Balance/Bug issues are at its best since the last patch (+ its Hotfixes

) in my opinion.