As veterans like myself with 10 000 hours has finally gotten sick of the game, the power creep just gets worse for new players. There is still an influx of new players but the game has gotten much more hostile for new players hence the game keeps getting harder to retain the newbies that do come. In order to save the game they will need to release a crossout 3.0, rebrand themselves a little, ease off on the draconian monetization and be a little more consumer friendly. You don’t create brand loyalty by crapping on your customers and I am surprised that the game even lasted has long has it did considering the giant mountain of anti consumer monetization practices that the game instantly strikes you with. You don’t even need to try out the game to know, one look at steam reviews and that is the number one complaint for like 80% of reviews.
Also they need to find ways to reduce the cost of ex battle pass items to ease the burden of powercreep because as long has that continues then the game will keep getting more and more repulsive to new players with each battlepass they release. The barrier of entry to this game keeps getting worse with the more items they introduce and yet despite adding more and more items the prices never go down. Devs need to take a leap of faith that they don’t have the balls to take because there end goal is to milk it for all its worth and just go bankrupt when all is said and done, that is they’re plan I think
