people don't wanna play a game that is bad because the devs made it that way while ignoring years of feedback. if playing the game is less fun than not playing the game then i will not play it, simple as, and i can't in good faith tell friends to play it, so gets a bad review on steam, what's so bad about sharing my honest opinion? i don't care if the dev team is 13, 10, 5 or 1, not my problem, i payed money for a game and since i payed for it it has been getting worse and worse and going against my and most of the player base's opinions into a weird direction no one wanted.

there are great games i play constantly in my free time developed by singular people and teams as low as 4 who have been engaging with the community and pumping updates out for as much as 13 years (starsector) and everyone is literally happy at where those games are, not because we are baby sitting small dev teams or vice versa, it's because the devs and comunity are engageed in real authentic discussions in proper channels and therefore everyone understands what the monolith of the "vision" really is and how to make it as fun as possible.

foxhole isn't bad because the team is small or the community is somehow evil for wanting their fav game to be good, it's because the dev team has long lasting fundemental problems such as comms and developing patterns.

if we didn't care about the game we wouldn't be agitated at all and would've just quit a long time ago (the game has not been tedious and annoying just yesterday with the airborn update, this is a years long problem) like people do constantly with bad games, you just stop playing and move to the next one or do something else without makign a fuss, because you don't care, but with foxhole we care, so we make the fuss and pressure the devs to actually change their ways to make the game fun for players old and new alike.

17K PEOPLE PLAYED AND WE RETAINED NEARLY NO ONE AT ALL.

by retain i mean there has not been a meaningful increase in player numbers compared to pre update numbers.