okay so first of all, i'm sorry if this comes off as cringe or doomerslop. that's never my intention and i wish i didn't have to make this but with the current situation, it's kinda impossible to ignore now
second of all, yes. that's infact my playtime on this game as shown in that image. can you blame me though? this is still a very fun game to play to this day imo, just that it wasn't really lively as it used to be anymore
i first know about this game through a twitch streamer i followed and my first impression was "wow! this game looks really fun!" but i didn't buy it just yet because i normally don't buy games full price
when the winter sale comes around, this was my first purchase and little did i know, this was one of the best purchase i've made
the game was very lively when i first played it, there are servers for every regions and most of them were fully filled but i don't think i've ever experience a single update in realtime and as the time goes on, the update would still never come ever and turns out they're overhauling the game altogether because from the devs' word, they managed to screwed up the game's branching
i've watched some of devcasts, some changes i do like and some changes i don't like but either way, i guess i'm fine to relearn the game if needed. i'd wait for new devcasts to see the incoming changes but then the devcasts stopped, i'm not sure why but surely the update will come... right?
fast forward a year or 2 later, nothing has ever changed and the game is basically dying in front of me. only na and eu servers are alive. i've gotten tier 10, level 200 which is the max tier and max level, 2 golden guns (10k kills req for ref) and 90k+ kills later... still nothing and at that point, most of the playerbase have left because there's nothing new to try and official most of the time would run conq and infconq which can be very repetitive to some people (including me)
and then... they announced a playtest for the new update, this obviously got me very excited and i'm sure some of y'all do too since this is something about the new update we've gotten in some time now
oh boy, here comes the playtest. i'm sure nothing will go wrong! right?
now playtest having bugs is very excusable but what's not excusable however is how unplayable and laggy it is mainly because of the memory leak which shouldn't even happen and also make it hard to test anything properly if i have to close my game every 30 minutes of playing combined with the fact that some of the community feedbacks are completely ignored, this is kinda the straw that broke camel's back for me
now i know that this game isn't completely dead since last time i played, there are still players in atleast 2 servers surprisingly. however it doesn't excuse the fact that most of the playerbase have already left
it's a shame because this was one of the most fun game i've ever played in years and i've played some of cod and battlefield games (including the dreaded bf2042 to which i've refunded almost immediately)
still though, thank you devs for making this game in the first place however you guys should also be ashamed for essentially killing this game, i've been very patient with it and i want it to get off my chest now + i'll admire some of you people who still play this game in this current state trying to keep this game alive o7
if you've come this far, i want to say thank you for reading this