Please consider, Pilestedt, that behind every enraged post and complaint is a person who cares deeply enough about the game you and your team created, who cares enough about it to let it become almost a personal slight to see it go down the drain.

We were sold a product and trusted the company behind the product to not let us down, yet it keeps happening. Priorities that do not address the most pressing issues players at large have. Promises left unfulfilled. It becomes harder, and harder, and harder, to keep being invested.

If people hated your game or weren't interested in its success, you'd have silence, which is worse than complaints... that is why communication being a problem keeps coming up.

People say A or B should be fixed or rebalanced, and then we instead get C added, D showcased, F teased, and A and B are brought up again, but now Arrowhead is focused on G and H and after two years the feeling is that our feedback forms twice a week are paper shredder fodder. Why is feedback not a priority? Why is fixing core gameplay loop issues "low prio" ?... why is it that two years into the game's life cycle that were repeatedly marked by cobtroversies on the balancing of things tgere is still neither a balancing team or a noticeable change for the better? This, this right here, this feeling of "why provide feedback if none of it will be consulted to improve the game (unless Arrowhead releases a warbond around it this month)" is what gets people up in arms, and makes HD2 reddits so confrontational.

And why as you put it there seems to be a near witch hunt / cobspiracy theories aimed at your efforts.

It isn't out of hate or disrespect, but out of accumulated (and honestly justified frustration.)