Stoned Prophet, on 01 May 2015 - 01:15 PM, said:
that is not view friend. those are the facts. now you can say that you were unhappy but that does not mean that the people who flip the f*** out we're right
I agree about the people who flip out, but to say PGI never lied is a stretch, Like I said look at the my Sig, read that quote, they used the work Never, and of course we all know how that turned out. To simply say what Vass posted is in valid because the work "promise" is not in there is naive, the simple fact (since you like those) is they missed more release dates from mid 2012 and all 2013 than they hit, in fact I don't think the hit any release dates that PGI gave for major features during that time.
There was plenty of crap PGI was terrible at they are getting better, and probably the biggest thing they did was stop giving hard dates and also giving a pretty consistent I never held any vision for MWO that was any more than what PGI put out there. They still have to deliver on a lot that.
The Wave 1 Clan pack was a Huge P2W deal, the Timberwolf Dire and StormCrow were incredibly OP when they first came out, and they were like that for about 2 months or so before the started nerfing erppc heat and jump jets. Even then until the Timber Came out for C-bills towards they were still the best mech in the game that you had to pay money for and remain the best mech in the game to this day.
As far as your part analogy, imagine if you told a customer, hey I should have that part for you next Tuesday, but on Tuesday you did not get the part did not tell the customer the part was not in, and then ignore'd the customers call for the next 2 weeks, and then when you finally spoke with customer told him that part should be in 2 weeks from now. That is exactly what PGI was doing between mid 2012 to Jan 2014.
It is history, and PGI is doing a better job of communicating as I said. However I am of the mindset of I can forgive, but I won't forget, that way history will not repeat itself.
At some point PGI/MWO has to mature beyond Mech Packs being the only source of large revenue streams, if they do not thier will come a time when that will not be enough. As I said I a have only missed the Saber Pack, and the Wave 1 clan pack, but I am probably going to skip this one as I have enough mechs and enough cbill to but all the variants when they come out.