I feel like the changes they have done have nuked casual approachability to the game, imagine if in League of Legends you had to grind many games to unlock the ability to purchase Trinity force in the shop, along with everything else, and that progress reset every season. horrible idea if you ask me

I have to be honest Theorycraft has not been looking too hot, I say that as somebody who has SV as her most played game on Steam but god damn between the essentially false advertising, disingenuous content creators promoting the game, and misplaced priorities it has eroded its viability to continue.

I think ultimately Spectre Divide suffered from the outright refusal of casual players to engage with even a basic level of creativity to play the game, they made a game that's super fun at high MMR but the queues were populated with the kinda folk who wanna rush a bomb site with no util and a dream

NGL it hasn't taken off because people keep calling it a MOBA battle royale despite not being a MOBA, so a lot of MOBA players come along and then leave because the game mode they are looking for isn't represented, and the audience it could have (top-down hero shooter) isn't told to give it a try.

go watch his actual anti-vax measured response there's lots of good lines to pull from here, a colonoscopy joke comes to mind

he's not a MOBA character if we wanna be technical, he's in whatever category you put Overwatch heroes TBH

because it's a niche within a niche that markets itself as a completely different kind of game to what it actually is so most MOBA fans turn away from the battle royale and most hero shooter fans are put off by the word MOBA, it also has an incredibly high skill floor with poor tutorials, sad really

not a MOBA, is a battle royale