This game isn't going to be revived unless they manage to actually bring in new players and keep them
At this current situation, the game's too saturated with all the veterans who don't even realize that they're still part of the problem on top of everything. The same thing happened to chivlary, a game which I also fucking loved but was ruined for me by the playerbase, and look at how many people play it now. How this game can draw in new players is going to be a trial and a half of planning out with keeping them in being even more far-fetched.
APB never had a problem bringing in new players. We see them all the time. It could just never hold onto them due to a lack of tutorial and balance.
And it's not the Removed Inappropriate Language ~@mayii 'veterans' that are the main issue, it's the casual max rank silvers who want easy opposition and so dethreat to stomp said newbies.
