Theres a difference between a mod getting lots of people who were waiting for it to start
and a mod thats been around long enough for most who were interested to find it
Ive (and im sure we all have) seen many mods fail and wither away b/c too many mod developers just go do their own thing. If there is some RPG game coming out or out you see like 7 lord of the ring mods...only 1 makes it out within a descent time frame (gathers the most support), the other takes 2 years after game release to come out and the other 5 never make it at all after having 100s of hours spent on it.