First thing I want to say I want this to be a discussion rather than an argument.
So... A year ago when I first started LFS, on a Saturday most servers on the list had 16+ people connected, racing, drifting and cruising. But last Saturday and the Saturday before, drift servers had max 10 people in. The only servers that were big were the cruise servers. Why has the drift community and a chunk of the race community died?

Another thing that would obviously fix the empty server issues would be make everybody have to buy the game. LFS is far too easy to crack from what I've seen. I'm in an LFS drifters group on Facebook which has around 2500 members. A poll was ran on how many people play Demo, S2 and cracked LFS. 700+ people selected that they have cracked LFS... 700!!!! Out of 2500. That's actually ridiculous. The developers need to try and make LFS less easy to crack.

That's all I have to say so far, feel free to add.

I'll just close this. If you want to know if LFS is dying you can search countless other threads.

It's not dying, it's just less active than before because some people are waiting for updates and using other sims while they wait. That's fine, we are just using LFS sales to fund its development, which continues.