I still see new people coming into the GS rooms quite often and it is always easy to find a game online. Whether most of these players are already hardened and experienced is another matter. On a personal level a guide would have been a great help to me when i first started (and probably still would be). It is a big leap from SP to MP and from MTW MP to Rome so i would think there should be a clamour for any available online tips even if it is not in a polished format. Whether the release of the latest RTR or BI will kill off the vanilla lobbys is another matter entirely.