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[Joe Luck]

This is a question I would like to ask the community in general. I would like honest, open, and non flaming/hatefilled answers.


To those that find themselves playing less and less? Why do you think you are playing less than say a month or more ago?

Edited by Joe Luck, 21 January 2013 - 11:49 AM.

[Voridan Atreides]

I just tried it today after downloading the latest patch I quit after my first game because I could not hit crap. All of my weapons fire like 1 - 1 and a half seconds after I press fire....meh.

[Kunae]

1: Overpowered SSRMs
2: Broken Jumpjets
3: Ludicrous "blanket" ECM implementation and the choice of mechs allowed it.
4: No new maps.

There's more, but those are the big ones.

[3rdworld]

First child born 8 days ago.

Kinda kills my free time.

[von Pilsner]

Too few maps.

Too much ECM and lagshield lights.

Kinda getting bored with MWO for now.

[DaiAku]

Joe Luck, on 17 January 2013 - 12:07 PM, said:

This is a question I would like to ask the community in general. I would like honest, open, and non flaming/hatefilled answers.


To those that find themselves playing less and less? Why do you think you are playing less then say a month or more ago?

When I first started playing I thought the game had great potential - it played well for its early state - I thought it would progress forward when I joined the founders club. However, in my eyes its actually stepped backwards. The repeated pattern of added content half baked (ie. conquest mode), no serious bug fixes (10 variants of HUD bug - and still growing) and terrible balancing (ECM as one example) just makes me not want to come back to game as much. I wantwant MWO to succeed - I feel it is just losing steam.

My hope would be that the developers just take 1 month without a content drop and just fix the big problems with the game.

Anyway - my 2 cents

Edited by DaiAku, 17 January 2013 - 12:18 PM.

[Max Power]

-netcode

-lack of a good communication tool - namely integrated voip. A chat system that worked would be good too.

-lack of quick commands

-"community" sucks. bunch of elitist idiots.

-lack of mech variety in matches, mostly due to how ECM is implemented

-lack of game modes

-matchmaker

-bugs that don't get fixed (netcode, hud issues, disconnects)

Edited by Max Power, 17 January 2013 - 12:16 PM.

[Chazer]

3rdworld, on 17 January 2013 - 12:13 PM, said:

First child born 8 days ago.

Kinda kills my free time.

Congratulations! My brother I believe squeezes in a few rounds between late night feedings and re-awakenings.

[Eddrick]

I an not going to slow down for about another week or two. But, once I master the Catapult-K2. The only reason left would be to just play for fun. But, I will still play regularly.

The ammount I play will go way up when I get a better computer. Playing with an under preforming computer can take some of the fun out of it. But, I still try just because I like the game. Playing at less then 10 frams per second can be difficult and frustrating at times. However, this will make me a better player in the long run. It's like playing with a handycap that favors me negitivly. I enjoy the challenge.

Voridan Atreides, on 17 January 2013 - 12:12 PM, said:

I just tried it today after downloading the latest patch I quit after my first game because I could not hit crap. All of my weapons fire like 1 - 1 and a half seconds after I press fire....meh.

I get this too. I'm sure it's the computer.

[Corpsecandle]

Most of the bugs don't bother me, I can live with them.

I'm just bored.

There isn't nearly enough content or purpose. I'm not a "catch 'em all player" so I've got my 'phracts and my founders and am content with those. However I don't have much to do with what I have.

[CeeKay Boques]

Do you only want to hear from people playing less in this thread? I'm playing more and more and liking it more and more and making more relationships.

[endeceive]

I'm bored as well... I activated my premium time but now it's just draining away and I haven't played much in a couple of weeks. When I do jump in, I play a few games and it just seems like the same exact experience as the last time I played. I think I stayed engaged with WoT a lot longer because of the progression - it's fun to fight your way up into higher tiers of engagement that you didn't have access to before. Here, just endless random battles, doesn't have the same pull for me.

[Lefty Lucy]

Basically the fact that people don't want to play 8 mans.

Make 8 mans the only way to group play, and I'll probably come back. Add in a lance v. lance mode for groups that can't get 8 going all at the same time.

Group v. group, solo v. solo. That's how it *always* should have been.

[Fabian Wrede]

ECM totally unbalanced, team with most ecm win all the time in pugs without voice com

[Joe Luck]

Technoviking, on 17 January 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

Do you only want to hear from people playing less in this thread? I'm playing more and more and liking it more and more and making more relationships.

That's good to know. It's a good counter to what I'm asking.

[Kobold]

I've been playing lots of games with my teammates, probably even more than I was in the past, but our time has been split between a few games. While MWO is still fun, the novelty has worn off. Once more game modes and CW come in, that may shift back.

(Mind you, my "less MWO" is still probably more than a lot of other people)

[Shade4x]

Here are the matches you can expect to see.

A) 1 ECM atlas with a bunch of other mech's vs the same. You walk around till you wonder into eachother and fight. 0 Strategy.

No ECM Atlas vs ECM Atlas, no ecm team gets owned by LRM's while ECM atlas's team is untargetable

C) one team has 6 Atlas's and the other doesnt.

D) one team has 5 lights and can only win by capping.

Occasionally you get the game thats equal, but those almost never happen.

I would like to see a limit on how many class's you can have a match so there is no all light vs all assult mech's.

I would like to see ECM taken from the atlas

I would like to see the hit ratio lessened on LRM's or make AMS's shoot more out of the sky.

I would like to see more strategy and maps.

[PraetorRUS]

Joe Luck, on 17 January 2013 - 12:07 PM, said:

To those that find themselves playing less and less? Why do you think you are playing less then say a month or more ago?

1. I got all the mechs I wanted for now.

2. Small number of really different maps (and very annoying snow/rainy/dark maps, where I forced to play in thermal view most of the matches. My eyes really hurts 'cos of this).

3. I prefer PUGging, 'cos of lack of regular free time to play in a group. And PUGging in this game is really sucks, 'cos of bad matchmaking (no weight limits/balance, no ECM number balance).

4. I prefer sniping configs so lagshields and recent release of Spider really hurts.

[Carl Wrede]

Lets see..

Netcode
ECM
Delay when firing weapons
No CW yet

[Davers]

I still play at least every other day. But I mastered all the mechs I enjoy piloting. I imagine I will play more when the Trebuchet comes out, if I like it. For the most part I play to keep in touch with the FWLM and the great guys that hang there. But there really isn't any feeling of 'urgency'. I really am not missing anything by not playing. I guess I am just waiting for CW.