As part of the remaining Community; you’re full of sh’t. I do like the items they’re adding to the cash shop, because I actually love the GAME itself. The ones that do care about the TP shop are the ones who want to see the game get bettter and support IMC.
Bots are not causing a huge dip to players leaving. Hell if that were the case WoW would have the same numbers as ToS. It’s just a lot more obvious in ToS then it is in; WoW or any other non-point and click MMO. Don’t believe me, feel free to google WoW BOTs and such.
FPS issues are indeed the deal breaker for a lot of players. A day would not be ample time to fix those issues. try more 6 months to a year as they would have to re-code the whole engine. Remember FFXIV? Yeah, they had to do nearly that as well. Considering SE makes IMC look like a garage company in both money and manpower it’s not possible. Hell, XIV went down for 3 Months (iirc) to change everything.
IMC was not expecting for ToS to have huge numbers. It’s not going to hold big numbers because 1: It’s a niche game in a small market. 2: Westerners specially want everything handed to them, and hate anything that has a grind.
Why do I say ToS wasn’t expecting large numbers? Remember when we had two servers? Or when IMC said they were not expecting such a huge outcome?
If IMC wants to increase it’s player-base all they need to do it advertise, as they are doing none of that. Fixes will come to the optimization, but as I said time and time again, in smaller doses which will help some, but not all.