summer, lockdowns ending, mostly nice weather all around. All these reasons contribute to people going afk, the summer lull in the PCU has been increased with the lockdowns ending, and most people wanting to go out and actually do things with friends, unlike you apparently.
eve has been dead since 2004
Iām thinking you completely miss the irony of you sitting alone at your computer on a Friday night posting this.
Mr Epeen 
I have an Idea.
How about we move ALL the ORE to lowsec and see if everyone comes backā¦
Summer usually has a drop in player count, not sure if it will increase late Autumn-early Winter. Game seems to be broken at the moment, imo.
O My. Please make this happen. Make My Eve dream come true.
Isnāt this what happend to Co2? too soon?
Player count still dropping because of CCP actions 
People are missing their friends: https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/o2a9ix/all_my_friends_are_gone/
Itās quite simple really , this scarcity period needs to end right now , infact it should it have ended last week
So the online status is dropping which could mean the number of pilots logged on is currently down due to resent CCP actions and or changes.
My guess when looking at that graph is to seek out other data available like using archive .org
on the Red-Frog.org domain where it shows us the Queue Status is shown.
(Which is a good indication of their current workload and how long would your contract take etc)
Now a small sample of looking at one day based on what was spidered by Archive .org a year ago ie
āMay 2020ā showed
Age: 0 > 48, 14 24h to 48, 19 12h to 24h, 62 < 12h
Now looking at the current Red Frog Freight website shows;
Age: 1 > 48, 42 24h to 48, 36 12h to 24h, 29 < 12h
Which could indicate that in game contract trusted bond between regular players and Red Frog is still strong and had not really dropped off and maybe it is just the number of accounts that the regular player currently uses.
Decision making on whether to log on daily with each and every pilot has definitely changed.
So many bad ideas being implemented to appease one style of game play. STOP LISTENING TO THE CSM lol
We voted for the CSM
When the customer stops buying/using the product, the customer is not to blame.
Corollary: it may not have been the right customer for the product.
The biggest problem with the player drop count is that even if a player is taking a break they will still log on once a day for the log on bonus which will not show their break in the bar.
Now the fact that the player count is dropping on that chart shows that players donāt even care about the log on bonus anymore because they have lost future interest in it 
its quite sad.
I want eve to succeed just as much as anymore here.
Like literally I have played maybe 20 hours in the last year and have just been login in for the log on bonus hoping for the day a fw change comes out to rejoin again.
Result either way: Product disappears from the market.
Mr Epeen
Gee, I wonder if a year and a half of constant nerfs with no end in sight might be causing people to stop playing.
Or in this case, Buyer disapears from the market!
Whichever way you look at it, the end result is a lot of employees angry that their cheques are bouncing.
Supply and demand are both required. When the demand stops, the maker of the product fails. Like EVE Online for example. Demand is dropping and no matter how many ship skins they add to their store, that aināt gonna change.
Mr Epeen 
They havenāt opened up Jove space. They arenāt panicking until they try that.
On this I will agree!
Good luck waiting for that!
