User blog comment:ShinnyShin/The Problems with the Fast Lane Update/@comment-24458118-20190401113304

As usual, great read. These keep getting longer and longer... You missed that some revival, non-AM events also seem to be only for specific people. Me and many others didn't even get to play the recent X2 championship. It's not like I would've cared, but there's that.

I may be wrong with this, but this "they're trying to kill A8 to make people move to A9" thing everyone says... I see it as dumb. Let me explain: I don't see it as them killing their CASHCOW, I see it as them simply taking advantage of all the mindless sheep throwing money at them, since they don't seem to care about what's going on. It's sad actually, 'cause these addicts moan all the time about how bad everything is and how miserable they are, but then proceed to buy 10 token packs, watch every ad possible, and spend the next 8 hours playing, basically sending a message saying "You can keep shitting on me all you can, I'm still gonna play and pay religiously until the day I die. But I still hate you and I hope you burn in hell." And so, GL keeps shitting on everyone and everything, every time with more courage, knowing that people are gonna hate them, but keep the money valve open and flowing. So yeah, long story short, I don't think they're "killing" A8 for the sake of reviving A9, they're simply doing what they do best: exploiting addicts since they know it works.

But the saddest of all is, I'm sure all of this would change if this game had any kind of PRESENCE. You see, outside of this wiki and the official forum, this game is practically non-existant. GL always claims these "350M downloads" bogus, but I don't see that. Nobody gives a crap about A8 apart from our niche community. You always see people, forums, blogs, famous youtubers and news outlets talking bad about Star Wars, Fallout 76, Anthem and the like, but not this game, which is arguably in a worse state than any of those. If A8 had any kind of presence in the gaming community, everyone would be throwing themselves at GL's ugly throat and force them to change things, like they've done with EA and Bethesda. But that's not the case. It's sad, because I'd LOVE to see critics and youtubers like Angry Joe tearing this game a new one... But since we're a tiny, unknown speck of dust in the gaming world, there's nothing to be done.

Wow, that was way longer than I expected...