I don't think the community is split ... most of the people that see how much of a cash grab this is and the time it would take to buy something with ingame gold/money won't even bother  to come to the forums , they just leave ... that's why the community is dying so fast .
On the other hand the people that defend the game will defend it even after the game closes down it happens on most communities after the game dies.

The people that actually bother to come to the forums is such a small number , you can get a better idea of what people think of the game and grind by the numbers they are pulling ... they are declining very fast.
Personally i think the game could be great but it has alot of issues and they are going in very hard trying to force people to buy currency with $ or grind your eyes out to get a character.

Drimakus i just saw Tidusflames do the same thing but even worse you not only give him a chance but you can do what Tidusflames does jump around doing nothing , throw yourself a the enemies to kill you and lose the game , that's a great strat to keep new players , you throw the game and fuck the game for other 3 players that is REALLY going to help grow the community , i talked to him after the game he said he actually did it because the Antagonist was new to the game lol, great you get one player into the game and 3 leaving because they think our community is full of assholes IQ 200 right there he even blocked me on steam after "explaining" to me why he throws the games lol are all the people from Spain like him wtf hahaha.

Veteran player from the beta uses all his brain power to help the game and the best he can come up with is throwing games when he sees a low level player as Antagonist , sure fucking the other 3 won't do anything .

I'm done with this game not only you have to deal with AFKs that farm gold , people that disconnect every game, lag most of the game because it's a peer to peer system , people that kill themself when there's no Antagonist because the rewards are not worth the time  AND NOW people like Tidusflames that throw games when they see a new player to "help " them.

Beware people now we have Batman with one extra chromosome running around throwing games if he decides the Antagonist is new enough to the game , who does this guy thinks he lol

Good luck with the game i still hope you the best Mercurysteam.

Another great game with another great host from the other side of the world , 1 minute into the game and everyone left the game already cuz it's impossible to play.
Some people like me paid money for skins and the mythic aliens dlc but you can't say that playing like this is worth it... this is money wasted.
But hey at least i was the Antagonist so i ended up winning since the other 3 left and even thought the host "Nada" was the only one able to move freely he gave up because he could't finish the level by himself .

i'm gonna be real with you i haven't done this myself yet but when i get a host from Russia /EU  i actually think about killing my character , can't stand the slide show and teleporting (forget about melee ofcouse).

I can understand why the guy is doing that with no Antagonist , doing a 30 mins+ mission and get  1/5 of the rewards you get when theres an Antagonist is not worth my time(not saying it's the right answer but after all it's my time , i care about time   the most , the devs know the system is not working and they only need to tweak the reward amount and they haven't done it yet)

Edit: Forgot to mention when you keep winning games you get more mobs per mission with more HP/Damage/Accuracy  it's actually way harder finishing a mission without Antagonist ... so it takes the same time or more time to finish it(if you do actually finish it) but you get 1/4 of the rewards makes no sense at all.

Edit2: Tried to play a game as Antagonist ping 300 with spikes to 1000 , unplayable Alt+F4 i really want to add that host to friends and ask him where he is from probably EU.

Wait what? 25k to lock a single card? that's just insane lol , no wonder i couldn't lock them either and btw my client is in english i still don't see the price to lock them anywhere.

-When are we going to be able to buy Alien Myth and the founders pack.
-At what time is the game going to be officially released the 22.

The reason that there are not many Antagonists is, because they can't find any games.
Community Management lying about offer and demand to hide their mistakes in Matchmaking is not a good start. Congrats for that.

that's a little too much buddy .