I mainly meant that I wouldn't lower the bar just so that we can get new players because they
supposedly have a shorter attention span nowadays or some kind of argument of the sort.
Tutorials are coming, new modes are coming, I'm not too anxious for the future developments at the moment.
Adding TDM/DM has been discussed before and it appeared the mod team never really had these modes in mind.
I personally think it wouldn't really hurt the mod by now to just have that freedom, and that it could be rather fun to play for a while in order to relax, but I don't think it'd be truly enjoyable in the long run. I'd rather wait for Conquest/Siege modes if I wanted something other than the default game mode.
I don't know, Counter Strike does it and I don't see it struggling. Barely anyone plays TDM/DM there and most people, new players included, are more than happy with playing Competitive regardless of the fact they have to sit there and wait for minutes before they respawn.
Some games are fundamentally designed around a single game mode : I'm not sure whether MB2 is that or not, whether it could have become something different earlier. There's so much a small dev team can do on their free time too, I can understand they'd rather want to polish their initial idea even if that's at the cost of catering to a wider audience.
I don't really understand why you took my "Players who will remain are those we want to see, rest can go fuck off" this way,but I'm sorry that I put it this harshly.
I wasn't hinting at in-game interactions at all, rather that we can still attract new players as long as they accept the skill ceiling and are willing to face the challenge.
I love my Quake or good FPS for TDM/DM as much as the other guy though, it's not inherent to the game mode, but rather to the game's basic design.
The community is harsh overall, and probably turns a fair number of people off. It's damageable but a lot of very popular games (which often have this very high skill ceiling, hence elitist attitude) have notoriously toxic communities and still do rather fine. I don't mean it is to be ignored though.
Though I have to admit, I like having this one remaining online space where everything can still go just like older times, back when the Internet was still wild - but then that really makes me sound like an old fart