I am in the middle of trying to help two leagues fill. It is frustrating.
I happen to earn my living online with a totally unrelated website. I am so desperate I put some WIS, HBD specific, advertising on my site last night. I will probably take it down today. I get around 40,000 visitors a day but... it just doesn't fit.
WIS certainly isn't giving much incentive to keep it up there either. One of the biggest problems is that there is no real incentive for word of mouth advertising. The payout is terrible. 20% one time with ZERO recurring commissions on people you bring to the game. I don't know if the $4.95 first season is still going on, but if you got someone to take advantage of that, as an affiliate, you would be paid 99 cents one time and get ZERO cut of hundreds or thousands of dollars that they may spend in the future.
Greed destroys businesses. WIS isn't concerned guys and that is the biggest problem. If they were concerned then they would be bending over backwards to reward those who make referrals, find other ways to market the product, etc.
I feel what all of you feel, because I love this dumb game. But until they care at WIS headquarters, none of it matters.