the popularity boost when we progressed from 2.x into 3.0 was pretty hectic, so il imagine that when 4.0 is eventually released, the game will pick up again, users take new things alot more seriously, so pretty much everything will increase, replays will get popular and innovative again with the new mod possibilities, texturing and vid making will increase with the "something new" factor, ingame tourneys will go mad and clan activities will be taken seriously.
Toribash has still got a fair bit of life left in it, and there is always a revival of something whenever somebody comes up with anything new or interesting
with the game stagnating for such a long time, no one feels like putting any effort into anything, was talking a while ago with mod makers and vid makers about various possibilities and with what we have available right now, we arent using any of it to its full potential, and all it takes is a few choice users to up it a bit and take things seriously.