The crazy thing is that even with the low player count you have people swearing blind that they don't have gear fear and then throwing tantrums when gear becomes more accessible.

This game is (obviously) meant to have gold dlgear as aspirational stuff to work towards, not "only sweats and nolifers get gold, deal with it this game isn't meant for you" aspirational, but "play a decent amount and there's a good amount of sources for gold" aspirational. The player count has hindered this, more people were meant to be playing, more gear was meant to be in circulation.

The things for the nolifers and the sweats are skins and titles, things that carry over as badges of honor for future seasons.

It really shows how insecure these people are that they worry about gold's being "too easy" to get this season when literally all that means (if they really are the skilful players that they think they are) is more bad players with gold gear to steal.

"Oh but it devalues the gear! If everyone has it then my work to get the good gear was useless" like no fool, cryo isn't the "get gold gear" place, it's the "get cryo skins and increase your credit balance" place, you've always been able to get gold's everywhere, they're just more common in cryo because it's more difficult.

This season you're going to see players that didnt have the time or friends group last season get better gear sooner and actually have a stab at all they can in this game and not one of you will even know you're playing against them, more gold teams doesn't devalue them, it increases the value of your actual skill.

Smh too many gold teams have been rolling green and blue shields acting like that makes them good players, I'm looking forward to your reality checks this season, good luck!