A hard fork would be a good opportunity for new players to get a foothold to replace those left behind.
how would anyone who has no coins now have coins after the hard fork ?
the current mining pools with all the hashing power might have something to say about about that
its not like theyre going to just quit and throw all their asics in the garbage just because the block size changes
whichever chain is the strongest will be mined and the other disregarded ,i would say its probably going to be increased to 20MB whether everyone "agrees" or not ......
many as in more than 51% ?
the strongest chain is going to win
i like theymos idea of setting a date say 2 years from now say february 2017 to increase to 2MB and then when we reach that date setting a new date of february 2019 to increase to 5MB blocks,increase to 10MB in feb 2021 etc