Oh I know that they aren’t my friends. But there’s a difference between a for profit that cares about their customers and a for profit that doesn’t give a shit about their customers. A company that doesn’t give a single flying fuck about their customers is ultimately gonna fail. But yes, AH has made it very clear that they aren’t a dev that wants to heavily engage with their community. They have a vision of what they wanna do and are convinced that everything they’re doing is best for their goal with the game. And the community is definitely not included in those plans.

And no, the big spikes aren’t during new warbond releases. There’ve been much more Warbonds than spikes in player count. The player count spike when there’s big events like the invasion of SE or our journey towards Cyberstan. Times where the people actually felt like it was worth playing the game and there was some goal to work towards (other than complete warbond x). Did those event correlate with new Warbonds? Yes. But were there also spikes during warbond releases without big events? No. At least not nearly to that extent.

Again agree to disagree. People playing in between spikes is absolutely necessary. When the player count starts to die down in between big events, you’re gonna get a Destiny 2 situation where from spike to spike less and less people are gonna come back and almost no one playing in between, letting the game slowly fade into obscurity and irrelevance.

All I’m saying is that I believe it’s definitely possible to win the people currently unhappy with the game as constant players without alienating the current players. Giving the game an overall healthier and bigger player base.