How to skyrocket the playercount and get this game out of financial downward spiral

[Phenoix12]

1. Make the game free to play again, possibly with buyable cosmetics/whatever, as long as it doesn't affect the gameplay whatsoever.

Well buyable cosmetics sort of goes against some things since I'm pretty sure the end goal for Hazeron is to have most everything be player designed... including cosmetic items.

Switching to F2P and relying on donations alone could work but is a risky proposition since people can jus opt out of donating.

Let's assume best case scenario and every player is donating at least a dollar, even with like 100 players that would still be well below the amount Haxus earns with the subscription model.
While F2P would attract more people in the long run overall it has the risk to make less money.  Though it also has the potential to make more money if you get a lot of larger donations in the mix but that's a gamble.