How do you feel about MAFIA?

Myself and the other MAFIA mods are curious about how the players feel about the game.

We've gone at a steady one game per month pace for the last six months, and we're starting to get the impression that people are either burned out, or just straight up losing interest. Turnouts for the first two games was good, and the third game was huge with 30-something players. In this game, we had to extend the character deadline twice and send out emails and PM's to recruit new players, and we still only came up with 14 players. That's not a bad number by any means, but it is much smaller than we were expecting, and we had to work to get that many people.

Mainly we just want to know how enthusiastic people are about the games, and what we could do to make them more enjoyable and attractive to start attracting new players and bring old ones back for more.

Something else we're interested in is how long you guys want in between games. We're afraid that if we start a new game in two and a half weeks, people aren't going to be fully recovered and interested, and we'll get low turnout and participation.

I personally thought that the dwindling turnout was from problems that plague MAFIA #4 and #5, but the other mods and I want your input. Please share, and don't worry about hurting my feelings if you see a problem - I can take it.