Jade Kitsune, on 21 March 2013 - 07:52 PM, said:
Also fine, you know what, to answer your question. READ THE EARLY DEV BLOGS... also note that coolant would "never be added" that they said we'd never have a thrid person view, and that MWO will never be "Pay 2 Win" which we're already heading torwards, or the argument with coolant could be made that yes, we are in P2W terrority due to being able to get 1-3 extra alphastrikes off extra over someone who doesn't utilize coolant.
You're a fool to think that coolant won't be utilized by the "top tier" players, in fact, it's that kind of thing that WILL be utilized because it gives an advantage.
At the end of the day, MWO will die, it's been on a pretty steady decline, and they seem to only want to hasten it's death.
They sold this product on a set of pillars that are, frankly, not the core pillars anymore... most of the core pillars lay in the rubble of what could have been the best Mechwarrior experience ever, instead, it's nothing more than a shell of what it could have been.
1) This game is still in development. A fairly early stage. It shouldn't be, but PGI is new and slow. But one thing that happens when a game is actively being developed is that ideas and direction are subject to change. Original plans don't work out and are modified; new ideas are brought up, discussed, filed away, and dug back up.
Not a single game in the history of human artistic endeavour has ever, ever been an exact representation of what its creators imagined it would be when they started out.
2) Coolant Flush has been a staple of the Mechwarrior series since forever. It hasn't been in
every game, but it has been in enough that most people with even a tertiary knowledge of the MW franchise knows what it is.
3) You complain about "advantages"; you know what else is an advantage? A weapon. And you know what other games have weapons? Call of Duty. Clearly, weapons need to be removed from MWO, because they are just copying other popular games by implementing them, and they give an advantage to people who use them.
4) #3 was a joke, and an example of the kind of runaway logic you're using to justify arbitrarily and subjectively vilifying certain features over others. I actually bought a Coolant Flush module (I refuse to refer to it by the absolutely ridiculous name they gave it) and plugged it into my Mech yesterday. I still haven't used it. I prefer building my Mechs so they're heat stable and I rarely overheat. Sure, it means my short-term damage output may be lower than others, but I can sustain my fire for longer. But you know what the most beautiful part about it is? MWO is designed in such a way that I am encouraged to make fundamental decisions like that, and they affect my gameplay. And Coolant Flush is simply another aspect of that.
Overall I find your argument hyperbolic and deeply ignorant; it amounts to little more than "PGI is catering to the wrong demographic. They SHOULD be catering to me -- I am their demographic, and if you don't listen to me, your game will DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM"
This is why I'm starting to refer to people like you as ultra-conservatives; all of the arguments you and others are making make it seem like you won't be happy unless PGI immediately halts any and all further development of the game, and MWO is kept in a limbo of non-progression exactly where it is. That simply isn't going to happen.
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