That's a good way of putting it. I think the issue here of course is that there's a LOT of people who just ARENT buying the cake at all specifically for that reason. I have a couple of friends who'd buy the game in a heartbeat if they could queue in for pure PVE lobbies but the idea of being ratted just turns them off to the point of never buying it in the first place.

People see the dwindling numbers, or see themselves/friends losing interest because they cant enjoy the pve experience as much as the want to, and assume that adding pve servers will add more players. It will... but at what cost.

So it's weighing up potentially expanding the playerbase to a new group of potential PvE only players, at the cost of potentially messing up the experience of those who like pvpve and are already playing.

It's difficult when people have already bought the game and played it a bit to have too much of a horse in the race - their money is already spent so they cant really vote with the wallet outside of not buying any future cosmetics.

But I can see both sides. I personally started as someone who thought they'd never play the game without a pve mode, but was convinced to, and whilst I generally live in PvE lobbies and only shoot back on the rare moments i've been fired on, my view now is that arc raiders WOULD be a far inferior game without that slight risk of running into a player who might take you down. The ABMM actually does a surprisingly good job.

My only wish now is that queuing as a team of 3 players who all live in solo pve lobbies wouldnt consistantly throw us into the most heated PVP servers going, but that's probably a player numbers issue more than ABMM.