We need a good ol' fashioned lynching. I vote for Hamlet, he talks to skulls. He's a bit wonky already, I'm sure he won't notice. Well...not too much. Oooh, my pink Catapult hasn't been lynched yet. Lets lynch a mech for giggle, I'll even rev the engine and make it sputter and grind gears to make a gagging sound, with the whole leg twitching part too.
Earthtalker, on 04 March 2013 - 07:47 AM, said:
And most people have remained civil and courteous. Let's keep that going.
Uh...okay, lynching is out. My bad.
As for PGI, conspiracies, doom and gloom...yeah, I don't believe in a bit of that. Sure we give them money. However, for the most part our paltry cash that we give in spurts here and there, can be quite insurmountable all combined. Can be, not necessarily is. Plus it is not steady, where as if they had gotten a big game production company to back them, the fundage would be steady. They'd be able to regularly hire more staff as needed. Who here actually knows the size of their actual development team?
As for the whole Open/Closed beta testing, as others have said, it's the new model. Companies use it because it works. 100,000 closed beta testers can only find so many errors and flaws. Find so many inconsistencies and incompatabilities. Put so much stress on a server. However, a million beta testers can find them faster and put more stress. Plus their systems are more varied, their playstyles, their choices, etc. It works, from a developer standpoint, better.
The drawback: they get to deal with more people like us. Unfortunately, most of us I'd probably describe in less than pleasant terms. Note I did say -us-, so that does include me as well. I'm far from perfect.
There are just so many variables we are not privy to because we don't punch a PGI timecard. We don't get a paycheck from them, so why should they tell us all the ins and outs of their business. Most of the times on the forums and general players it's the same thing: We want, we want, we want, we want. We sound like bunch of greedy little 6 year olds. Like we are entitled to make them do it all at once with a snap of their fingers. I love it when someone says I'm a programmer, blah blah is easy. Okay in your enclosed little space blah blah is easy. NOW make it work with all the other code of a program and not frell something up horribly elsewhere. We've all seen it, they fix something and it causes something else to break. There are days I'm tempted to just say, give us what we want as it is...and then see how broken the game becomes, instead of hammering the code out first.
That's not to say valid points aren't made on both sides. However, they are valid from the relatively narrow window we get to look through. Yes, they have done mistakes, name a human who hasn't. Catatonic since birth does NOT count. Heck we probably made some at the young age of one. "I'm not wearing a diaper, should I poop now or later. Aw heck with it, I'm sure mom won't mind, I'm letting it all out now."
Oh and just a portion of our "I'm entitled. I want, gimme list":
more mechs
fix Catapults
more maps
fix ECMs
fix the various missile types
Clans (well I don't, but I want a gun with a 5000 meter range that fires giant X's that appear under a Clan mech. Then a Looney Tunes Acme anvil, mech sized, appears and falls from the sky crushing them instantly, hehe)
Lobby
Community Warfare
more colors and camo patters
decals
integrated Voip
and so on and so on...
I say let them do their job, clock out, go home, enjoy dinner/family time/bed. Let them put their hours in.
Oh and if I come across as condescending, rude, and/or insulting. Just remember I used pronouns like we and us. So everytime, I insulted/condescended/ruded (new word!) myself as well.
I still want to lynch a mech just for fun, now.
Edit: Yeesh gads, 26 posts were made since I began typing this, oi. Off to read those then respond or go to sleep. Whichever hits me first. Keyboard is looking awfully comfy.
Edited by Larth, 04 March 2013 - 08:41 AM.
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