I am a lover of this game, I adore it beyond most things. I've had a lot of my life revolve around this game but there are several things in this game that I think need addressing, there have been a lot of moments where this game has introduced new things to it and that everyone has been doing a great job in the past, but now I must point out where I think this game is failing.

1. The developers lacking any kind of communication with their playerbase. Yes, you guys get the majority of the flack in this situation but you need to look at yourselves. You have 0 communication with the playerbase ever since you missed deadlines set by yourselves for the patch updated back in the beta and the release of coven. Most people are understanding but I have seen such little communication from you guys outside of the data breach and even that came off a little... casual? Please keep everyone more informed, I know that on the forums ShapeShifter13 is trying to give more updates but I feel like he is getting very little to no information, so it just feels like a token gesture.

2. The data breach. I know this isn't your fault but the whole community is affected by this, especially the people that played way back when, the ones that had no real affiliation for the game and then suddenly have to find that they need to change their passwords. Again, another instance where the whole thing should have been cleared up and the mistake should never have happened in the first place, but I hope you learn from your mistakes.

3. Basic problems in the game, still. I understand that you guys are working on Unity, that the game on flash has taken a back seat because of unity but because there are still basic problems with the game. Some messages don't come up correctly, there are buggy things in the game and there are bugs outside of it. All of them are unintended, I am sure but I am seriously fearful that if there are a large amount of bugs that are still in the game, missed for whatever reason, that are going to affect the unity launch. I really appreciate the hard work and effort going into the game but I think you should have spent more time in the past looking at fixing the problems of the game before being forced into this situation of getting the game finished before flash dies. Sort the bugs please, however small.

4. Trial system. TurdPile has worked extensively on it and has always had a place in talking to a not-so-easy bunch of people in the jurors, judges and gmods. The whole system has been designed for you, for free, by a person who still works tirelessly to help clean up a community that he is not responsible for in any way, yet looking at the trial system, it feels so incredibly detached from the actual game. I understand that you want to let as few people as possible in on the information of what goes on in ToS, but someone who has and continues to do so much for the game gets put out to dry with, what feels like to onlookers, little support. Perhaps this is hearsay and I'll be happy to be told otherwise, but I'd like to be proven wrong for this, not just told "you're wrong".

5. Leavers. When people leave, especially in ranked, it affects the game way more than you could ever think. It's something that needs to be handled and the one thing that was combating them was the tracking of the leavers in the trial system but that has been abandoned for a non-existent leaver buster system which has been promised for a very long time but seemingly didn't work originally and then just abandoned. I think something needs to be put in place because it is hurting the game.

The game has a very loyal player-base and I adore it, but if there is an in-joke of BMG stating that they are as slow as a turtle when it comes to doing things (See trial server discord) then there is clearly something very wrong with this game. I love this game, I truly do, with all of my heart. I hate to see it fail but right now, I wouldn't recommend it to new players or old. I think it needs the unity update, fast, it also needs some tlc on the community and the actual game mechanics itself.