If there were another game released, or we somehow promoted the series like crazy, and a bunch of chrono virgins got their cherries popped...would you embrace this? do you WANT Chrono back in the 'mainstream' of things, a la Final Fantasy? 10 years since the last full blown game, the community is now reaching a pretty small niche, aided only by the ds remake that gave a few newbies a glimpse. I've showed this game to many of my friends, and pretty much all of them think it's the shit, a lot of them hadn't even heard of it til the DS. One of my friends played it for 14 hours straight while I watched, I was his walking encyclopedia/FAQ as he progressed thru the KWhazit re-translation.
With the aspect of a new game, I have to ask with the exception of Katou and Mitsuda, are there even any of the original team left to make another? If no new game, exactly how could we as a community go about promoting our interest to others in a non-jerkass way? If there is neither a new game, nor we promote the series ourselves, then the community will die. These things don't promote themselves. I think we at the compendium are doing a decent job as is, what with all the current fan projects as of late, but what else is there? Is word of mouth amongst friends and internet dwellers enough?
I think if we really promoted the rpg maker projects at the rpg maker websites(there's a few active rpg maker sites still around), people who have already 'been there, done that' with the series will see that it's still an alive and kicking community. I'm kinda lost on how to bring in newcomers other than telling your friends about the games, but that's a really slow process, I don't think we'd be getting more people than what we lose, so the net community total will still dwindle.