I agree with 90% of this, especially the PoB section, and the "PvP hungry players" area. Which is pretty much the entire thing. I have nothing to add, just re-read those sections and let it sink in.
I think we have two other problems besides these:
- Freelancer is unadvertised and old, the only way to really learn about this is to hear about it from a friend or YouTuber (Bluedrake42), you can't just magically find it on the Steam Store or G2A when scrolling through. The OFFICIAL SITE is down for the game, so this game has almost no publicity.
- Adding onto the veteran area, this game naturally has a VERY high skill gap - the learning curve is quite huge, and new players who want to play this game CASUALLY have a very hard time. I think it's the hardcore PvP players driving away the casual players who just want to do some RP.