we talk a lot about the people who quit after 3 months because the wipe gets stale, but nobody talks about the ones who played the whole wipe and quit after their first wipe because they lost all of their progress. Ive known a lot of them over the years but they rarely speak up.

It just seems like the people who watch streamers and play like its COD, play 6-8 hours a day, are in a lower age bracket, ALSO tend to ask for wipes (you see this trend passed on from Rust, which is very much peripheral to COD, CS, and yes Roblox). These are vocal and whiney people. These are also going to be people who dont want to play fair, dont appreciate the games immersion and realism.

On the other hand, for the first two wipes EFT had much different player composition, much older, a lot of vets, played slower and in groups largely. I saw a lot of these guys quit after the first wipe. A lot were unhappy with the second wipe but stuck around, but left after the second wipe. These players appreciate the gear and weapon customization features and even when they get 100m roubles in stash they still enjoy the immersion of running nice gear and playing with their friends. These guys didnt say anything or make any reddit posts when they quit, but they were there and there were a lot of them.