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[merz]

Heffay, on 17 September 2013 - 08:33 AM, said:

This is pretty much undeniable. They're only posting to convince other people that the game isn't worth playing,

its a little more involved than that. its an effort on the part of a relatively small group within the broader community to dictate the direction of the game to the developers under penalty of pitchforks and torches. ccp put themselves into that position via the kugutsumen embarassment, and a significant amount of good came out of it because there were worthwhile people involved in the process. the goons and their cronies, convinced that the former would set the tone of future development, did try to hijack the whole thing numerous times..

and this isn't some kind of a conspiracy theory. all of this actually happened in another mmo, and much of the current rage squad are the exact same people from back then. they've got this **** down.

[Jakob Knight]

DirePhoenix, on 17 September 2013 - 08:30 AM, said:

STO is where I first saw a dev post that only a tiny tiny portion of any game's community even visits the forums.

And if you'll notice, they have Dev posts/blogs almost every other day now. Even if it's something small. And they have an enourmous store of trust by the playerbase, even those who are dissatisfied with some of the content. A lesson there.

[HugoStiglitz]

Sybreed, on 17 September 2013 - 08:34 AM, said:

it's even more fascinating that you're convinced there will be one.

All games have drama at some point.

[Grendel408]

Stoicblitzer, on 17 September 2013 - 08:40 AM, said:

none of the sarah's jenner money went to PGIGP. thankfully.

A contribution to a cause they supported... I call that supporting the Devs dude

[Otto Cannon]

It's nearly time...

*begins extremely long drum roll*

[Stoicblitzer]

i think one of the greatest quotes I have read about the development of this game is:

Quote

PGI mistaked enthusiasm for BattleTech as enthusiasm for themselves.

[Savageson]

The way I look at it since I can't get a founders refund it seems the only thing I can do is be active on the forums to express my unhappiness as a consumer. I don't really got any other options. I've done all sorts of {Scrap} off site to try and get this problem satisfied to my liking but that might take forever. It would be so much either if they just made the game with the ideas they talked about when they got my money... not whatever this has become. Its almost hard to example how far this thing has tanked since closed beta to me. Does the game run better? Sure, you get time to fix bugs...Does it play better? Does it have more features? No.

[Jakob Knight]

Alpha087, on 17 September 2013 - 08:39 AM, said:

Fixed it for you.

I played STO from launch. The fact that game managed to push through the transition from being owned by Cryptic to being owned by PWI is nothing short of a miracle. If you take a look at STO's sister game Champions Online, which is pretty much the exact same game, engine and all with a different subject matter, you'll see they've taken the route of halting all development and bleeding the game of every last cent they can get from their item shop. No doubt if it wasn't for the die-hard Star Trek fans, STO would have suffered the same fate.

Can't argue much about what you said about CO, though I'll say that having the same staff running multiple games is a bad idea. One always gets favored treatment. Though, to be honest, STO takes itself more seriously than CO (where pains are taken to enforce the fact you are playing in a comic book and not a 'real' world).

Point is, those Devs know how to run the game they have chosen to run, and the players will give them a pass on a mistake for a period of time (these days...dunno about launch, but I heard stories of that time.....). MWO? Not nearly as much these days.

As I said, I want to hope the Devs here will get their act together and realize what they are doing wrong, but I don't see indications of it so far.

Edited by Jakob Knight, 17 September 2013 - 08:47 AM.

[Alilua]

Oh look, we get a "sale" on random group of cosmetics again to use mc on. joy.

[TANTE EMMA]

Grendel408, on 17 September 2013 - 08:30 AM, said:

If you've uninstalled this game... still lurk on the forums for entertainment... you are a troll... plain and simple. This goes out to all the newfound trolls in our community... you don't belong here anymore if you don't support the game LOL! Go on, now... shoo... git... get lost.

that is exactly what they said to all the people in SWTORtanic...we all know how well this went...

[Ash23Neuro]

We gonna need a lot of popcorn for launch...

[Alpha087]

Jakob Knight, on 17 September 2013 - 08:41 AM, said:

And if you'll notice, they have Dev posts/blogs almost every other day now. Even if it's something small. And they have an enourmous store of trust by the playerbase, even those who are dissatisfied with some of the content. A lesson there.

Never mind that store of trust is only coming from the players who haven't quit over the non-stop money-grabbing PWI thrusts into every game they touch. Even went and took it to the next step, making the in-game currency/item shop currecny seamless with their 'astral diamond exchange' system. Sure you can argue that PGI will charge you $22 for a hero mech. But I can argue that PWI will charge you, and continue to charge you money for anything you may want at any chance they get. Whereas that $22 optional mech is a one-time deal, with no strings or additional hidden micro-transactions attached.

[Anais Opal]

OOOO look, someone is awake......how about launch info Niko????

[fluffypinkbunny]

soarra, on 17 September 2013 - 08:45 AM, said:

i don't hide like PGI

You also don't play, and haven't experienced any of the new changes, so your posts are unfounded, and don't help any type of conversations. Infact you are waiting for changes, but yet, you won't experience them because you have uninstalled. It's not like you're saying, I have uninstalled, but will reinstall, if I see something I like, you are claiming that you've uninstalled, are happy about it, and have no intention of reinstalling UNLESS you hear something you are happy about, so you are waiting for somebody like me, to report something from my perspective that you might find fun, and there for reinstall, but I can only tell you what I like about the game, not what you would like.

[Chaon]

And where is the big game release?

It is 18th September here in Australia and I haven't seen any big hoohah about the game actually being released.

All I see is something about a Challenge called Operation 24 being turned on after 5pm UTC and at 5:50pm UTC I still can't see what the heck it is.

It doesn't seem to be a big bang release but more of a whimper.

Note I am not even going to say anything about UI2.0 or any of the other good stuff we haven't seen.

[BulletChief]

Chaon, on 17 September 2013 - 08:50 AM, said:

And where is the big game release?

It is 18th September here in Australia and I haven't seen any big hoohah about the game actually being released.

All I see is something about a Challenge called Operation 24 being turned on after 5pm UTC and at 5:50pm UTC I still can't see what the heck it is.

It doesn't seem to be a big bang release but more of a whimper.

Note I am not even going to say anything about UI2.0 or any of the other good stuff we haven't seen.

isn't it 16:52 UTC?
so they're not 50 minutes late but you have another 10 minutes to go.

[Heffay]

Chaon, on 17 September 2013 - 08:50 AM, said:

And where is the big game release?

It is 18th September here in Australia and I haven't seen any big hoohah about the game actually being released.

All I see is something about a Challenge called Operation 24 being turned on after 5pm UTC and at 5:50pm UTC I still can't see what the heck it is.

It doesn't seem to be a big bang release but more of a whimper.

Note I am not even going to say anything about UI2.0 or any of the other good stuff we haven't seen.

Wait 8 minutes.

[soarra]

fluffypinkbunny, on 17 September 2013 - 08:50 AM, said:

You also don't play, and haven't experienced any of the new changes, so your posts are unfounded, and don't help any type of conversations. Infact you are waiting for changes, but yet, you won't experience them because you have uninstalled. It's not like you're saying, I have uninstalled, but will reinstall, if I see something I like, you are claiming that you've uninstalled, are happy about it, and have no intention of reinstalling UNLESS you hear something you are happy about, so you are waiting for somebody like me, to report something from my perspective that you might find fun, and there for reinstall, but I can only tell you what I like about the game, not what you would like.

lol what new changes?
and do you know the last time i player?

[Nehkrosis]

7 minutes, right?

[soarra]

Huge patch notes for release. lol