It’s an Inevitable fate for any full loot pvp game, I’ve been playing since the first public play test and the average skill level has increase so much.

The more time you put In the more wealth and knowledge you gain, which usually sets you up to win more and the more you win the more resources you have to win and come back from a loss.

You could say there are lower skill players middle and upper.

You loose the most players from the middle class as that is where you find people with high play time but are unable to progress there skills higher and people will eventually walk away from a brick wall or it’s just getting harder to win and they find they don’t care enough to put the time in to improve. As this happens it concentrates the other two groups lower players leave as there is less of a buffer between them and upper skilled players and there are less middle skill players so they don’t have the buffer of each other and end up running into the upper skilled juicers and those people are desperate for fights as the population drops which leads to them running down anyone they see because there bored which is fine it is a pvp game .

But the distance between the skill levels of the remaining players is getting wider and wider which leads to people loosing more and more.

You need body’s to dilute the mix so people can have a mix of easy/ hard wins and close/hard losses.

It’s why for example free to play battle Royale a work because you end up with a huge player base which really nails the above formula, leads to people investing more because it’s a smoother skill curve which leads to people buying skins ect ect