Now that the game is more or less balanced and there are no overpowered exploiting demigods, people will be more likely to come back and play.
One remaining problem however is in skirmish / pantheon queuing, where it always shows "you are the only player queuing". Since this bug was introduced the multiplayer numbers shot down drastically, because people who do not visit the forums will be unaware that there are actually people queuing.
Suggested hotfix:
remove the display window for now, its doing more harm than if it wasn't there at all
Long term fix:
isolate and repair the problem so the window properly displays the number of people in the queue like it used to