I can assure you that money was not a factor when we decided to remove the game. As has been said many times previously, it was removed because games did not start quickly enough which resulted in longer wait times for games to start, particularly in off peak periods. It has already been back once as a featured game and will be back in the future as a featured game.
games did not start quickly enough which resulted in longer wait times for games to start -wrong
staff refuse to spend a single hour on updating the game -true
Still some of my points here
No one cares about adding them as featured modes, we need permanent games
Add some kits and balance the existing kits, it won't take much time
Make core and ctf voteable option in game to stop splitting the community and just remove 1.8 blockwars altogether
Blockwars did quite well when its featured game and its a unique game that should be left out