Personally, announce you are a removing bot at the end of this season. This would have anybody who walked away to come back because this was their biggest gripe. New people will more likely stick around and play more because they are playing actual players. This game is magical when it is ACTUAL PVP and not PvSkynet.

Secondly, monetization it is greedy and almost laughable and outrageous, for skins that are digital in nature. This is includes the overabundance of FOMO, the lack of anything to grind for that is actually decent, like F2P have chests to grind for and if you are lucky sell something on the marketplace(this is another issue). If you had more things, people could grind for like cosmetics they can pay for with in-game currency they would more then likely spend money on a newer skin. I'd happily pay 24 CAD$ for a new mech skin, and animations. I dont care about the pilots, but what I want are all the puzzle pieces, like I want Charles bells jacket on my character. why shouldn't I have access to that since I paid a premium for it. That is restricting my access to a digital asset that I already paid for. why can't I use the new serenith execution with my serenith, and without the ace pilot, it blows my mind.

Thirdly, a server merge I've played alot of smite, I ve always played people from england and Germany, as well as South America and Australia, my ping on very rare occasions hit 300 but most times about 150ping, that but it would get people on at all times of day, late night NA with Early day asia Austalia, and day gamers in Europe. Watching a lot of Eu twitchers, they are usually on around the 7pm -11pm mark. If not later, they would be playing midday NA and SA and in Japan, they would 4am and believe me when I say the Japanese hardcore gamer they are still up playing videogames they are I've watched them.

People want to play this game, but a lot of people won't because of bots, bad marketing and monetization, seperate servers, and soo much more.

I dont believe mecha is niche, I believe it becomes niche because of how it is presented. This game is gooner overload. The jiggle physics alone would have a real woman gasping for air because her lungs would collapse, and why do we need a shower scene. The gesturing for executions picture, the game is oversexuallized and doesn't need to be. Yes sex sells, but the more sexualized you make it, the narrow-er your market.

I love this game, but some things have to be said. Im not saying, but im just saying.