the masses are not playing, cos the game have NO advertisement, and everyone says the game is horrible. even if this would be best game ever, the bad name will stay, at least for 12-18 months. and people gave ga,e bad reveievs, becouse they were too lazy to realy learn the mechanics and coupled with miriads of small but annoying problems, created common opinion.
also 'masses' are too dumb and lazy to play good game. they want a game that you can pwn noobs with single button.
Also yuo can turn of autofacing (config-> auto lock OFF) butr it keeps returning for me everytime i restart game >_>
Ninja edit:
Battle involvement CANNOT stay ythe same with autoatack. its the definition of automating something: reduction of human involvement.