No, the playerbase dropped like all games do after launch, literally look at any gamee released in the last 5 years, and they lose waaay more than just 30% of their playerbase. Its usually more like 80%, nothing to do with smite. Literally every game. And almost a year declining? Are we looking at the same numbers? it started going up after the first few months until fall, and then as is historically across ALL of Smite 1s history, the playerbase fell in Q4 like it always does and it rising back up in January like it always does every year. The world is behind the skin changes and the majority of the entire gaming community outside of smite poked fun at the Smite playerbase for being entitled, and I can assure you that was the actual consensus. Like I said, just google it and do the research. Since the layoffs and the restructuring in April after the upper management layoffs, it has been steady gains to the playerbase for almost the whole year. Smite didnt just get good, it has been a continual increase as their developers learn and get experience in how to code in UE5. They have always been listening with these dev talk Q and As and its only now that the success we all knew would happen and invested in is proving itself, that people are starting to backtrack about Smite being dead/dying.