ah, hey, opinions of one of ye old """"drama starters so the leaving board is gone'""" people. booooo. i'll give you my perspective on what i can.
1. gameplay wise it appears they'll have more content in game, the maps are the "og fh maps" with the same terrains and whatnot, but much more polished iirc- like the fh of 2011 in 2021.
2. less from what i see. i check the forums every day and have most of the patreon-only server unmuted and it's quieter as of right now.
3. i'd say that's an unquantifiable thing.
4. i say a lot of the accusations are baloney. i wouldn't be able to tell you the truth of the matter, i feel like no matter what source i get it from there will be heavy bias and from what i've witnessed and what i know about all the floofs involved.. it's a grab bag of truth and people Just Not Getting What Someone's Trying To Say [tm]. there's bitter people on both sides of the debate about the credence of it all and you know in the year of our lord 2020 that context just doesn't have a place and rational debate is a silly notion among us internetters.
5. to clear as much of my bias from the rink as i can.. their staffers have experience and a lot of the people were- and still are, very psyched for what's to come.
6. heck if i know, it's pretty nebulous. i've known about it since before i joined in april and grabbed my usernames, the earliest accounts made on the forums date back to pi day of this year but concepts came before then, i have no doubt about that much. think you're a little outta luck, sorry.
7. it's not a nice one. i personally feel very alienated in that community and it's not because i play the og fh, either.
hope that helps. feel free to dm me for more info but i'll likely wind up jaded and cranky, it's not you, i promise. i'm happy to answer questions but i'm not happy about how i was treated. that's it.
I think both communities are way too divided. I'm trying my best to keep an open mind for both games, but seeing how many people on FHU have a grudge against oFH, and posts here on oFH that are so negative towards FHU and people who play it... I think it's really unfortunate. Both games should be open to criticism even if you like both communities. Unfortunately both oFH and FHU seem to suffer from cliqueyness but I guess that comes with the smaller playerbase, but it often bleeds into a weird sort of rivalry between two games that are barely interacting.
Honestly I feel that some of the hate is over the fact that the community is split. I'm not saying it's anyone's fault, but I feel it stems from the simple fact of there being two/another rather than one and people preferring the original over another server. Same deal with IT and FH, how some people preferred IT over FH.
While this topic is for answering these questions I just wanted to say that is all~ -backs out of topic