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[Belorion]

FrozenAnt, on 31 March 2013 - 04:47 PM, said:

This is a great find, however once again it is much to late.

It's not the content that is giving me 2nd thoughts. It is the form in which it is delivered.

Why do players have to search the far reaches of the internet to get this kind of information?

It was the PGI easter egg hunt.

[FinnMcKool]

must have been something really good going on to the left of the screen.

Bryan ; look the woman in the eyes, dont look around when you talk to her.

[Chavette]

FrozenAnt, on 31 March 2013 - 04:47 PM, said:

This is a great find, however once again it is much to late.

It's not the content that is giving me 2nd thoughts. It is the form in which it is delivered.

Why do players have to search the far reaches of the internet to get this kind of information?
Why is this not in a command chair post?
Why can the MWO team not coordinate what type of information is released?

The game is great! no one is denying that, yeah it has is problems but it's still good.
However its frustrating, especially for a game IN BETA, that information is not shared so it can be tested by BETA testers.

Please get your PR team together guys! 3rd time the pitchforks have come out!

Also this clarifies how the 3 group system works, but doesn't say anything about the rage topic going on the above forum topic

Yea... too many times we get new info from places like random people finding videos, and mods giving out 0 day info when they lock a topic.

I'm really happy they write paragraphs when they lock a topic to clarify something, but its happening too much that breaking news that would easily warrant announcement/command chair posts just gets written into a thread getting locked, which means its off the first page forever in about 10 minutes...

Which in turn means about 50 members of your player base will know it, buy they expect everyone to stop creating threads about it.

[Joe Mallad]

still not happy with them segmenting the community in CW.

[Belorion]

FinnMcKool, on 31 March 2013 - 04:53 PM, said:

must have been something really good going on to the left of the screen.

Bryan ; look the woman in the eyes, dont look around when you talk to her.

From the interview with Russ, it seems to be a MWO demo/kiosk/station off to the left.

Yoseful Mallad, on 31 March 2013 - 04:57 PM, said:

still not happy with them segmenting the community in CW.

We have known from the very beginning it would be this way. It is the IS, there are mercs, and the clans are invading.

[Joe Mallad]

Belorion, on 31 March 2013 - 05:00 PM, said:

From the interview with Russ, it seems to be a MWO demo/kiosk/station off to the left.



We have known from the very beginning it would be this way. It is the IS, there are mercs, and the clans are invading.

i know this but again... Merc units dont ALWAYS fight ONLY other Merc units.

[Roadbeer]

wow... 2 whole threads of nerdrage and now I have to start all over... but the memes... WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MEMES?

Ok, I did my part on the last two threads. Someone else take up the

"Houses are passive, but mercs control territory? How's that work Corky?" baton. I'm getting ready for GoT.

Edited by Roadbeer, 31 March 2013 - 05:05 PM.

[Team Leader]

Roadbeer, on 31 March 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

wow... 2 whole threads of nerdrage and now I have to start all over... but the memes... WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE MEMES?

Ok, I did my part on the last two threads. Someone else take up the

"Houses are passive, but mercs control territory? How's that work Corky?" batton. I'm getting ready for GoT.

All the memes on this website suck and many are painfully unfunny

[Matt Minus]

Peiper, on 31 March 2013 - 04:45 PM, said:

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So, you're saying it's okay to make fun of people who freaked out when they thought - and the article WAS worded to make you think that - merc players would have to pay to play with their friends and alluded to other pay-to-play stuff because they deserve it. But making fun of Bryan because of his body language is also okay, even though he's not hired to look good. Bryan is hired to direct the creation of a video game. The girl he's talking to is hired to look good, nod, and smile.

EDIT:
And yeah, I too want to know if Bryan got her phone number! lol

Though, Chavette, I don't think she was actually interested at all in what he had to talk about. She was doing her job. I don't think she was excited about the stereotype of wanting to pilot a pink mech. I don't think she wanted to play at all. She would have asked more interesting questions if she was actually interested in anything he had to say. And if Bryan was interested in her, he would have been looking at her more than the camera. If she was actually THINKING about what he was saying, she would have had a much more serious look on her face. I'm not knocking Bryan or her, but I suspect Bryan was concentrating very hard on saying the right things so he wasn't crucified here on the forums. And I'm not knocking her either. Generally speaking, explaining this game to most women would be an exercise in futility. It's not that they can't understand, just that there's nothing in it for them the same way you don't see MOST guys playing the SIMS.

I'm absolutely saying it's OK to make fun of those people. "Pay to play with your friends" was a total fabrication with no basis in the interview, and there's nothing wrong with pay elements in the game. If there are no pay elements, there is no game. And, no, this is not DotA and they will not be able to sustain themselves on camo patterns and bobbleheads. If they could, they would.

[Roadbeer]

Team Leader, on 31 March 2013 - 05:05 PM, said:

All the memes on this website suck and many are painfully unfunny

I Disagree

[Insidious Johnson]

100+ pages of ********* over an interview that can be interpreted many ways. It isn't like MWO hasn't thrown out crazy stuff in an interview before to gauge community rage/apathy as a measure of what they can get away with before we pack up and leave. At this point folks, sadly, that is the only way left. Until they listen to the fans and prioritze according to a common list of demands upon which we can all agree, it is their game.

It isn't like the community mods have had fun playing favorites, manipulated ideas by twisting them in locked threads and reposting them on their own in a new one or anything. Right? It isn't like we are constantly devided by one topic or another? I mean, we are all adults and not easily manipulated? Uh-huh.

They are in the entertainment/service industry. How many feel that given the product in front of you, that they fully realise that? Be a united community, be demanding, give criticism when it is due, and praise when expectations are exceded. We haven't been doing our jobs as a "community" or even "Beta" testers. We've allowed ourselves to become easily divided and conquered. The sad thing is, as conquered mechwarrriors, the bitter sting of shame will eventually empty out the server as the epiphany of such seeps in. We've killed our own dream. We've not lead. We've been mislead, instead. They get paid either way.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Make them love you before you come back. C'ya on the battle field... hopefully.... again... someday.

[Belorion]

Yoseful Mallad, on 31 March 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

i know this but again... Merc units dont ALWAYS fight ONLY other Merc units.

In there somewhere he says that Merc Corps will have to work with the House troops from the faction they are working with...

We don't know what that means right now, so we don't know they will only be fighting other Merc units.

[Sifright]

Yoseful Mallad, on 31 March 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

i know this but again... Merc units dont ALWAYS fight ONLY other Merc units.

by battle tech lore the merc units only fight other merc units is so hilariously wrong i can't quite find the words to explain it.

[General Taskeen]

I dread trying to take control of River City Night for the 1,000th time.

[Belorion]

General Taskeen, on 31 March 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

I dread trying to take control of River City Night for the 1,000th time.

Ever see Hamburger Hill?

[Sifright]

General Taskeen, on 31 March 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

I dread trying to take control of River City Night for the 1,000th time.

I'm more worried about having to fight on alpine constantly...

*just reached the middle of the map with his assault and starts taking shots at the enemy team*

BASE UNDER ATTACK

not again...

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

Niko Snow, on 31 March 2013 - 05:12 PM, said:

Had to restart the conversation with fresh blood of more interviews. The last thread derailed significantly to the point that everyone there owes miSs and Viterbi some of their Easter candy.

Question: Were these interviews done before or after the polygon one?
Because if its before then theyre kinda worthless to the argument at hand.

[Targetloc]

The CW implementation from that interview sounds ideal.

[Peiper]

Belorion, on 31 March 2013 - 05:07 PM, said:

In there somewhere he says that Merc Corps will have to work with the House troops from the faction they are working with...

We don't know what that means right now, so we don't know they will only be fighting other Merc units.

I believe it was stated (months ago, maybe in the PC Gamer article) that the mercs will be fighting on the border worlds, where the houses will be fighting for the worlds surrounding the core world which cannot be taken.

Here's my prediction: If the border worlds (held by merc corps) fall, then the faction worlds are hit. The faction worlds (fronts) have to remain intact for the factions to gain their passive bonuses, technologies, and maybe house specific battlemechs. If the mercs do their job, then the houses SHOULD be safe. But a merc corp, even when they're holding planets in a factions name really don't have any homes to fall back to, where the factions have core worlds. So, with merc corps its all or nothing, where factions players will always have an income no matter how bad a player they are. Then again, the rewards for merc corps may be far more significant - if fleeting - than the faction players will ever dream of.

One of the things that is bugging me - and I'm sure bugging many people - is how the clan will fit in. I presume they'll just have their territory and that's it, as in, they won't have mercs and everywhere will be 'the front.' But we still don't even know if the clans will be a playable faction, will we? And if so, what is the incentive for playing anything other than the clans given the tech disparity? And I see five or more replies have happened since I started writing... lol

[Joe Mallad]

the funny thing is how House Factions will never get to fight other House Factions. Sure in the lore, MOST of the time a house war was one side pushing on another sides borders and so the border worlds got the most of the fighting to be had. BUT in some cases, there were times that a House would give another House permission to let a sizable force through their territory to get at another House on the other side and or two Houses may even do a joint operation on another House... thus allowing the joint force to set up operations in their sector. I guess we wont get any of this either? And in lore... the southern most Houses like Davion and Marik did send forces UP north to aid Kurita, Steiner and the FRR against the Clans. I guess Liao, Marik and Davion will never get to fight the Clans either?

Edited by Yoseful Mallad, 31 March 2013 - 05:23 PM.