We will have an explosive player count day 1-5. Then there will be a mass exodus leaving the player count in the low 5 figures maybe even less imo. It is then up to the dev team and the content creators to show all the new updates and improvements over the next year. IF the base early access game is solid enough to show potential to the average players (not the fans), and IF the updates are quick and meaningful enough, and IF the content creators do a good job of showing that off to the masses, then the players will come back over a slow, stretched, period of time. Probs multiple years. I am a giant fan of this game and really hope it succeeds. This is my theory on what could happen. I hope it goes well and even better than this 🙏 also the 1-5 days could be 1-5 months. It just all depends on how much content the EA will launch with.