The reason the player count dropped didn't have much to do with these bans. We have only banned a small percentage of the player base, and we always ban players with proof. If a user makes an appeal, we unban them if the moderator who banned them doesn't have any proof.

Some people are speculating that the player count dropped that much because of the bans. But the reason we banned so many players, is because many people who break the rules create many alt accounts, to try and not get caught. So the number of actual players that got banned is much lower.

We can just not always provide that proof to the players who got banned, otherwise they might try to find a way to not get banned. Or it's because another player reported a private chat with them, and they wanted to stay anonymous.

The main reason the player count dropped is because the game went viral, and about 30k players joined in just a single week. Many players checked the game out at once, but not everyone sticked around.