PVE games are traditionally played more than PVP. That is a hard fact in the industry.
Im sure wherever you got that from was talking about Skyrim, Fallout 4, or Mass Effect type games, im pretty sure alliance isnt going to fall into that category. Many of us have hundreds of hours in the guns because the pvp aspect of it makes it dynamic, diferent pilots ships and maps make everything change from game to game, even a different tool on one engie can have an effect.
As far as the Jedi fiasco goes. I dunno if Muse was friendly with h
im or not, but you can't expect Muse to be 100% aware all the time of what a player is doing.
If Jedi sexual harassing girls was a secret then it was certainly an open secret a lot of people knew about it and i find it very hard to believe that no CA or mod knew. At any rate I accused him of it here on the forums and the thread was deleted for making a "personal attack" against him, the thread was deleted, and I can only assume the allegations were not investigated as this was many months ago and we are just now getting the ban. Whoever worked for muse that deleted my thread was aware of my accusation against him from what I had seen, and choose to do nothing. Im not sure if that choice was because they liked him more than me, or they were getting free work, or they dont take sexual harassment allegations seriously unless it comes from multiple victims.
I saw someone from muse post on here once that no one should have to train that doesnt want to, however ive never seen any system implemented that would keep a low level player, who if they join my ship im obviously going to have to train from joining.
Ive been in multiple matches with trolls, who do more than just ruin the game, but also are nasty and curse at you or insult you, ive seen no system ever put in place to deal with them.
What i hear is a lot of talk from muse about how they care about the community, how they want to protect the community. Covering for jedi for months was not protecting the community. Allowing trolls free reign does not protect the community. Muse has established a track record of protecting the offenders and not the victims.
How hard is it to smurf? Not very, you dont even have to buy another game, just make another steam account and family share, its free. So you ban someone from trolling, they just family share and they are back. You have no system in place to stop this, none at all.
Give us vote kick, start caring about the community. Make vote kick your #1 priory, and maybe accept the fact that alliance will not succeed without skirmish. If you had 4k active players in skirmish, I would feel pretty good about the alliance expansion, but you dont, you have 200. Many of those arent even going to buy the game or if they have they arent going to play it. You might wanna start thinking about free to play to get the #s up for skirmish.