also, none really does anything on the US side? Seen so many posts about how "none does hm" but seriously. No runs? Hoe isnt exactly so difficult any more, crypt can be a pain but still doable with buffalts if you have less players.
we've been hemoragging endgamers for years now. midgamers aren't willing or able to make the jump (too costly, etc).
pretty much just grotto hard/pomh happening on Govinda right now. I don't think anything more difficult is being ran.
What Zen said, its too hard to get enough logged on for endgame progression.
It wouldn't be so bad if normal mode was worth running though, then at least there'd still be easily enough people for pomn/crypt norm runs. But yeah, reaction to normal mode is always eww, why bother. Loot just sux there.