This game is nice, but I hate that it makes me feel so lonely. Anytime I visit the forums it always says that no one else is online. All my song packs are from years ago and most of the songs are made by artists who are long forgotten. And if I get good at this game I don't know what good it will do. I don't see any leaderboards or anything. I mean sure you're not supposed to play for the leaderboards but god, I just wish that there was a stronger sense of community.
the game is very alive, it's just that no one plays vanilla stepmania anymore! all the keyboard players have moved to Etterna, a fork of stepmania which is very actively supported with an active forum & new packs (and does have leaderboards), and all the pad players have moved to Simply Love/Waterfall (which also has leaderboards if u make a groovestats account) - go play one of those and enjoy the community
is dumbstream