Wrenchfarm, on 17 April 2013 - 08:33 AM, said:
I think it's admirable to have patience and to be understanding.
I also think there is a line where that patience and understanding starts to be taken advantage of. That you can be too "nice" to the point of becoming a sucker.
I think a lot of people in this community are past that point.
There is no excuse for the Keystone Cops level of buffoonery PGI has shown. From the lack of basic features, the limited number of maps, the constant bugs and and glitches that pervade every single aspect of the game. Going back on "pillars" of the design, failing to adhere to their own self-imposed deadlines (which lets face it, were pretty generous. Remember how many months Alpine and Tormaline were delayed?)
But the worst offence is the lack of positive communication from the devs. Snarky tweets, terse replies, and a community manager that goes on at length about how unpleasant his job and the community is. The fact that we continually hear about these problems from outside sources - which PGI will claim mis-quoted them or got it wrong, only to basically confirm it a week later.
It's a disaster.
PGI are the ones who said the game is ready for Open Beta. They are the ones who put themselves on a 1:1 time scale with the 3050 lore which DOES carry certain implications and expectations. They were the ones who said "this game is worth money, please give us some" then try to still hide behind the beta-shield.
It isn't entitled to expect them to live up to their own statements and goals. It isn't impatient to ask why basic functions are missing, or why half the weapon systems are broken right now, or why it takes them months to make even the slightest adjustment to things. It is OK to have reasonable expectations of them to deliver what they said when they are also asking you to pump money into this thing.
Don't be a sucker. Don't let them off the hook.
A clanmate asked me today "I'm thinking of buying the Highlander, should I come back?"
My reply - "Don't bother, it's a pop-tart ppc/gauss fest out there and the gameplay is deteriorating FAST. Nevermind all the bugs"
After sending it I realized how crappy word of mouth is getting, how my desire to play a game I've been waiting to be revived for 10 YEARS is becoming. I recently spent a few hours playing Tribes and was blown away at how much better that game is in pretty much EVERY single way, and how I'd rather spend my time there than in MWO - and it made me really sad!
I guess what it boils down to is this - If I ran my company the way PGI runs theirs, I'd be broke 10 times over by now.
I'm mortified at this news, given the lack of progress I was 100% sure that there was some MAJOR stuff coming down the pipes. Now, I'm much more liable suspecting that I'm out $200, and that this game is going to go **** up because PGI can't run a good business, it's employees are slacking off, or very simply PGI hasn't a CLUE what they are doing.
I'm sick of the excuses and the ********. PGI wont accept FREE help to build maps for this game. They won't take FREE help to help in so many aspects.
When I fixed the damn graphics 6 months ago with user.cfg, I got bitched at. We where even told "these fixes do nothing" and it took a near riot of the playerbase saying they do fix the FPS for PGI to backpedal on a thread with 50,000 hits. Even today, people see me ingame and tell me that their game runs better AND looks better with the custom setups. SIX MONTHS LATER! I did the work in a few weeks. You know what this tells me? Employees covering their ***** instead of doing their jobs.
This **** is completely unacceptable. man-hours must be wasted tremendously. My biggest fears, that this game is gonna face-kiss duke nukem and die in a spasm of garbage are once more arising - hell, I can't even bring myself to recommend this game to my friends anymore and mechwarrior is my favourite franchise ever.
Get your **** together now before it is to late PGI, or take the money and run, right now. Stop wasting everyones time.
To much unacceptable stuff is going on. What do you guys spend your 12 hours a day doing? do you actually work at all?
Be glad I'm not your boss. Or as one of my employees told me - if you where the boss, they might actually be getting stuff done, boss.