Marketing?

[Skyline]

All what you can propose to absolutely new player is — «Hey you - you'll be a cannon fodder for 6 months».
All what you can propose to player with some experience in Native mp is -  «Let's play in slow and strange version of Native mp. And yes - you'll be cannon fodder for 4 months at least. Also we know all shit about medieval weaponry so we nerf everything that you have used before».

You still think that any sane player will play this game? Consider this game with Dayz for example, where you can receive all what you need in 2-4 hours.

6 months? lol that is alittle far fetched unless you are just bad at fps and pvp. Competitive in a few weeks if you actually put the time into learning the blocking etc....

Edit to tie this in to the topic: As far as advertising goes, any effort to bring new players into the game needs to be matched by an effort to let them learn fairly without being pub-stomped prohibitively by more experienced players. Otherwise, they'll just leave.

If you have no inclination to get better, it doesn't matter if they have a "protected" place to start or not. Bad people will continue to be bad. Look at some of the people that been playing this game since it launched and are still bad....

[PhigNewtenz]

Never mentioned a 'protected' place, just a fair one. Fair can be the official battle servers as long as the community is welcoming enough to advise them on good first classes and involve them in tactics. The many guides on this forum are a good start.