As a long term casual player who already have most of the necessary equipment, to be honest, i cannot voice my opinion about the game correctly, because “burnt out” is my only impression of the game right now. From all the unpolished experience that i cannot imagine i will enjoy as a new player to imc’s foolishness to keep doing unnecessary adjustment and wasting time. Social is the only thing that keeps the game going for me.
Even so, i will try to portray my opinion about the game in simple terms. The game is currently too hard for any new player to become a permanent player because there is like mountains and mountains of things you need to catch up before you can even think about the “main content” of the game at the current timeline. Unless the new player would like to try hard and go for the competitive, there is nothing else worthy to offer.
Game will likely not shutdown because there is still a competitive scene that people would like to invest in for their e-pp war, but i wont expect many new player will stay for long. “Soulless” would be the correct word to describe whats to come.
We play games to have fun. But by the way that ToS is conveying its “fun”, it’s a niche one in my biased opinion.