It's honestly telling how bad a game is if it needs a prize pool to lure in new players
Of course the game is going to be played, because people care more about the money than the actual game, and they will tolerate the state of it as long as the potential cash out justifies it

There is another game, although not a fightan, who has a 600k prize pool, and it still goes strong, despite playing like tekken 8 on steroids but in rectangle anime waifus form