There's a big attitude contrast between "What is gato working on at the moment?" and "GATO IS NOT DOING ANYTHING, MONEY LEECHS", pro-tip: the first option works better.
So, I will start this pointing that TacticSoft was letting the game die, sold it with a load of known cheats working, some cheats exist for years and they did nothing about it, didn't even ban anyone, not even to mention the fact that the game simply stopped working for hours 2-3 times per week, multiple more issues down the list and they were doing nothing about it and didn't even comunicate with the players anymore.
At the time I'm writting this post, Gato ran a handful of banwaves, banned thousands of players and more and more waves are coming until we have the fix for these cheats, the game doesn't stop working for hours anymore, if some part of it stops, it is back up automatically in a few minutes (most of you won't even notice this), many other improvements done.
I can blame Gato for underdelivering relative to their promises time-wise, I blame them for not looking deeper into what product they were buying from TacticSoft and being too optimistic about it. I'm still thankful as a player though, they have done in a couple months more than TacticSoft did in their last 2 years, and what TacticSoft did in the last 3 or 4 was mostly updates to slow down player progress, and by the way, when TS still owned the game there was only a fraction of the amount of topics ranting about this as we have now, people simply didn't care at all.
I bet Alex would love if they bought the game with that few players as you imply, lol, get paid the same and work on a simpler product.
There are <1k on each arena server on purpose, while +90% don't play arena at all, the game starts distributing the players into more servers to avoid slow downs or issues similar to when we had 250 tokens special quest.
We have millions of monthly active players, the playerbase have been growing for a while.
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You can ask me that sort of thing and I will help with what I know, this way you have some base to work on to make proper arguments against Gato, it's not the first time I'm saying this.