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The difference between 50 and 6 as well as the apparent lack of money being spent on the game, is just the result of the many glaring mistakes the team has made.
Let's face it, pretty much everything from the start has been screwed up.
When the game is already a month late, completely broken when released, and a almost a month later still has key features missing, aside from the diehards, who else is really sticking around at this point?
I'm fearing that PT23 is a lost cause now. I can only hope that they all can learn from the mistakes that were made this time and get 24 right from the beginning.
Some of the errors I can understand, others are just unbelievable.
Not having the game ready on time is horrible when you consider how small a window you have to be relevant. I do think most can live with taking extra time to get things right, however when you're late and the product is a mess on release, you lose people's confidence.
Server issues I can understand up to a point, but this was especially bad. I have no idea who is at fault, but the dev team still have the bear the brunt of the fallout.
Not having GO available at or near release, especially knowing the mobile market would be growing significantly is inexcusable. Even if it was PT only, GO just simply has to be there in today's environment.
Also, repeatedly doing things to annoy and aggravate your customers after already making numerous mistakes is also inexcusable.
Where are Twitch drops? We've been promised them for weeks and all they seem to do is blame Twitch and/or say they are "working on it". Sorry, that doesn't cut it, You knew exactly when the game was going to be released and this should have been taken care of. This reeks of disorganization and/or incompetence.
While 22 wasn't perfect, it's particularly concerning when many features that 22 had just simply didn't arrive in 23 or were just broken. This gives the user base a feeling that 23 was a major step back.
I suspect for a lot the tournament decision, even retracted, was the icing on the cake. With the entire game so far being a mess and really nothing has gone right, who in their right mind would think it's a good idea to make decisions which would negatively impact your customers, especially you're barely hanging on to the ones you still have!
The player base needed some signs from OOTP that they know what they are doing and that things are eventually going to get fixed/better, and unfortunately they have shown very little evidence of this, and unfortunately the number of people playing is a reflection of the way this entire process has played out.
Do note: I am not trying to trash the team, I am simply pointing out the reason for the crash in people playing the game, as well as why I doubt it's salvageable at this point. There were other smaller things I didn't list that probably contributed, I tried to stick to the big stuff, but as you can see, it isn't just one thing that drove people away, and there is certainly enough blame to spread around for why this season just isn't working out.
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