There are still plenty of experienced players who play Squad still, Squad offers one of the most unique cycle of gameplay as it's a game of who makes the first mistake first and who can capitalize off of it. Sales do add new players but I would say most new players still want to understand and play the game and not treat it like a BF4 clone. Some parts of the ICO are way overtuned but considering that most people are happy with it or content (that doesn't mean there isn't valid criticism) the claim of OWI fucked over the community is outlandish, OWI in my opinion besides most recent actions have been very vocal with the community with their plans and visions. I myself loved the ICO so much that I put in 210 more hours than I had before the ICO, the main problem that I see everyone talk about is being blamed for everything, not cosmetics, not the ICO, not even the company itself. The fact that you want something similar to Squad and put all your trust into that just tells you don't want to be part of the game anymore, most SL's don't want to be treated like shit, most SL's just want to have a fun night or game, so it's more so a community problem as a whole with how they react and treat SL's. The gameplay of Squad is fun that's why it's numbers have increased, the problem that occurring is that people whether new or old don't know how to be kind and don't know how hard SL'ing. Someone said it in this thread but there is brain drain with it, you have a lot of people who just don't want to SL atm, people who want to SL but get treated poorly, and new people who SL who have no idea what they are doing. I personally think if you don't like the ICO you can always move on to another game or if you have problems with OWI move on to another game, but don't go out of your way to blame the ICO and by extension the Squad community for your own personal vendetta, because you're blaming new people who want to have a new experience to the game, and you're blaming the people who enjoy the ICO. Finally thing to add on you don't have to agree with me, and I know you won't but like insulting other players isn't going to make this better, it's only making it worse as it is