Listen reason is simple and most people understand this:
Asylum started as 85% RP community and 15% combat and we have been slowly moving towards a more PVP oriented community. Slowly but surely the community went from 80% RP to about 15% RP and rest is PvP combat.
So to answer your question, NO Asylum is NOT shit, its just different it evolved into a different game. A lot of RP focused players left its true.