you could do a system whereby if you bought a certain dollar amount of content, you get free access. 3 standard packs is pretty much what games cost, so that is a good place for the threshold. thus only the free loaders would have to pay either a sub, or buy some mech packs. but that will make many of them leave which will worsen the wait times and reduce the already strained capabilities of the match maker.
there is no move that does not reduce the player base. unless the game goes to 8v8, and you could only afford to lose a third of your existing player base, just to maintain the current state of playability (which is not spectacular). culling or merging modes might help or just roll everything into a lobby browser and make everything custom games. but i cant help but think the game would be diminished by such a move.
Edited by LordNothing, 22 December 2019 - 06:39 PM.