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I know I know, drama llama etc. but I do have good reasons for this.
I had been praying for a mechwarrior mmo for more then 10 years now. I had never played an mmorpg before and they never really appealed to me, but alas, I was a major battletech fan. Me and my friends grew up with the mechwarrior games and books, heck I still have a long sleve polo t-shirt you got with mechwarrior 2: mercenaries around here somewhere. Needless to say, we were massive fans of the universe whether it was the books or the various games. When we saw that early trailer (3 years ago now i think?) we were so excited for a new mechwarrior game and it looked amazing.
we started talking about it, how we could be in the universe with our mechs, unit etc. We thought there would be this massive cool other end to the game where we could do planetaries, fight the clans, take part in the history of the universe with thousands of other people and pretty much live the dream we had since we were 10 years old. but now, alas, the true colour of the beast has reared its ugly head.
I stopped playing DotA 3 months ago now. Every game I played was pointless. You press the Launch button and that was it, that was your fate, you win or lose based on that and those numbers go into a system that decides how good you are. Your fate was not in your hands. I was part of a good few teams over my dota/hon days. I was a good player, good stats, high mmr/elo but alas, the atmosphere of those games was completely toxic. Players acting like rabid animals because their stats proved that they weren't good at the game and thus they would flame/troll/anti-play etc. if you had 1 or 2 on your team you autolost the game. Such things as playing against their own team happened every game, if i was doing well and winning for the team, there would be a guy there getting mad at me and start doing his best to lose.
I used to boast on servers to players that i was better than 95% of the people that play the game. dotabuff.com did an update recently, turned out i was better than only 94% of players
What I learned was that all of that, all the time spent chasing elo numbers and stats etc was basically putting a bunsen burner under the limited time i spend on this planet. the numbers were so inaccurate (elo is a ranking system devised for a 1v1 board game, chess, and due to the mass variance involved, has absolutely no bearing on 8v8 mech simulator computer games) that every game just didnt matter. you were locked in with people you wouldnt go near for a second irl and if you didnt want to play with them, tough, you lose points and slip further down the ladder. Im 28 now (almost 29!) and i dont really have the time to play with teams/clans anymore. Ive done all that when i was younger. I was the team captain for my countries esports team on clanbase, I organised LANs, worked on the journalistic side of games and played at a very high level across a good few games. it was fun, but not anymore.
What I wanted from MWO was the dream game. Something I could come home to and play with the friends i (fortunately) still have. I moved away from DotA/HoN/LoL because they were games poisoned with elo & stats. toxic communities with an unbelievably huge 'lower' caste of gamers (look up elo hell). Now, the primary reason I left those games, has come to a game Ive loved and wanted all my life. It was like a sucker punch. It proved to me that PGI just want to try and get some of that lucrative LoL/F2P market. This game can be so so so much more, but alas we get a bolted on elo system that has absolutely no right to be here. To me it reeks of laziness and is reminiscent of other companies lazy approach to creating games (S2 Games comes to mind).
Now I know some of you are getting very angry at reading this, the trolls, the dribbling wrecks, the people who make games a struggle to play to those I say the following: You are the same person. I've seen you, talked with you and played with you across tons of games. You act in the same manner as everyone else in your bracket and anything and everything you say is very very easily predicted. The same distortion of facts, the same need to troll, the same need to bend reality to how you want, the same lack of depth, intelligence and taste is prevalent throughout all of you. I know you hate being as crap as you are. I know its hard to accept your limitations and I know the internet and games are a great way to vent this rage but know this, your life is only as horrible as you are making it. The further you get away from the truth the more terrible a person you become. There are literally millions of you out there, all the same, the same phrases, the same cliched personality, the same low brow and low standards, clogging up game servers and choking the fun out of what is meant to be entertainment. You are catered for and a lot of money is made off of you, that is the only thing you add to a world filled with wonder and amazement. Well done.
Its such a pity that a game I loved is going to go to the dogs. Im still eager to be proved wrong but the signs are all there, Ive seen it all before but I will hold out hope that in a year or 2's time, this will be a game worth playing with all those features Ive dreamed of. As is, its far too similar to league of legends in both marketing strategy and development. Chasing and grinding numbers that are completely irrelevant to your life. I'll keep my account active, I have a lot of stuff on there and ive got about 15 days of premium time left Ill use. Still feel like I've been kicked in the gut
