What bitter, awful fruit is this, where fans are left to struggle with diminishing returns and even a retranslation cannot excite people?
I think it's a case of fan involvement only going so far. Without a real new Chrono game things can look bleak. But, as I've said before to you, Zeality, glimmers of hope exist. Chrono Crisis and Chrono Trigger +, together, may be the key to reawakening the fan community.(Hell, I'd love to see the two projects work together a bit...perhaps with references to Crisis hidden in + somewhere.) A release of Chrono Trigger to the Virtual Console may yet prove to Square that the market exists for a new Chrono game to be created by them, as it most certainly does.
There's a lot more to the fan community than those who speak up, Zeality. Far too often--sadly--the majority is not truly vocal. When it comes to actually participating they do not speak but merely observe. That's why you have so many registrants here who never post, why so many view the website without even registering, and so on and so forth. You see the same elsewhere; one good example is voting in the United States, where at most 35-40% of the country actually votes, while more than that may be vocal but never actually bother to fully participate.