This circular non-progress process means the devs aren't progressing on fixing the actual huge technical and art flaws of the game, that make people quit, because they are busy doing other stuff.

For starters QC runs horribly. For example QC is still a stuttering mess in all PCs in gametypes that have multiple kills, like Deathmatch and Sacrifice. That happens because there's a stutter every time somebody respawns, one that affects all players in the server. 100 stutters per game, affecting everybody. Hasn't been fixed or tried to fix, in six months.

Then the visibility and graphics in this game are horrible. Instead of improving them, the art team solely focuses on making custom models and skins, that on the testing phase of the game. Zero changes whatsoever on the art and graphics department, in six months.

Those two aspects, namely the engine and art problems, are the silent killers of QC, and in six whole months nothing has been done to fix them.

Look at the Steam reviews and the horrible rating QC already has (75% overall 59% recent): most people complain about the game running badly (for the meh QC graphics), not being able to see a thing and MM being unfair. Zero complains about a LG bug, no praise to the custom models, yet Saber solely focuses on those things.

And BTW those already low ratings are coming from the paying customers, the enthusiasts. Ratings are going to plummet once the game goes f2p, so when non-fan ratings come and also from people that have to face a game plagued with limitations to non-payers. Thing is, in the future nobody is going to try an already dying game with a 'mixed' rating (59%).

We all want the game to succeed, but it saddens me to see the lack of prioritization in a game that's already dying. Steamcharts shows half of the paying customers have stopped playing the game... and while that happens, Saber focuses on re-re-re fixing a bug.