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[BFett]

November 2012 Russ leaks that 3rd person is in works http://mwomercs.com/...64#entry1437264. January 2013 poll made after first is deleted by devs http://mwomercs.com/...s-poll-revived/
August 20, 2013 we have 3rd person and 1st person in the same cue.
If any of you took the above poll please boycott the game until the next patch. Let's take a stand!

[SanGan]

no

[GetinmyBellah]

As sad as it is, BFett I don't foresee enough people not playing to make a change. We've done about all what I would consider a large portion of the community can do to make certain this game stays in the first person point of view. Unfortunately the powers that be are determined to include this feature, however unhappy it makes so many of us... especially long time veterans of the franchise. I'd love to join in but that means wasting 30 days of premium time I just activated.

I agree wholeheartedly that 3rd person POV has no place in MW:O, but it's inevitable, unfortunately. We just have to suck it up at this point and move forward best we can, in my opinion

[WILL WORK FOR JUMPJETS]

Seriously, at least see how it effects the game before you fly off the handle and try to hurt PGI for trying to improve elements of their game. You, and many others might be skeptical of it, but try to keep an open mind.

[Rasako]

Isaac Davion, on 20 August 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:

Seriously, at least see how it effects the game before you fly off the handle and try to hurt PGI for trying to improve elements of their game. You, and many others might be skeptical of it, but try to keep an open mind.

most of us WERE fine with it when they PROMISED the queues would be separate, but THIS is just heresy

[Commander Kobold]

Rasako, on 20 August 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

most of us WERE fine with it when they PROMISED the queues would be separate, but THIS is just heresy

Patience, the options are there they just aren't implemented ye, it's not like they just dropped 3pv without any whisper of a separate queue for you people who don't want to play with the option. (edit) also I don't recall them "promising" anything saying they will and promising they will are two very different thing

Edited by Omni 13, 20 August 2013 - 12:44 PM.

[Commander Kobold]

Isaac Davion, on 20 August 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:

Seriously, at least see how it effects the game before you fly off the handle and try to hurt PGI for trying to improve elements of their game. You, and many others might be skeptical of it, but try to keep an open mind.

The chance of them getting this to work are abysmal at best, and this community might as well be famous for flying off the handle without even giving a new feature proper testing (if anything this has made actually want to give PGI money for once)

[Rovertoo]

But I like this third person cam. I could never use it to shoot, and if your worried about corner peeking, I'd ask the devs to increase the time between mode changes. I like the cam for Vanities sake, for some nostalgic feeling of charging into battle while looking at my mech. It also helps the newer players. It is, I think balanced in everything except corner peeking, which in my eyes isn't that big a deal.

[Commander Kobold]

Vegentius, on 20 August 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

As sad as it is, BFett I don't foresee enough people not playing to make a change. We've done about all what I would consider a large portion of the community can do to make certain this game stays in the first person point of view. Unfortunately the powers that be are determined to include this feature, however unhappy it makes so many of us... especially long time veterans of the franchise. I'd love to join in but that means wasting 30 days of premium time I just activated.

I agree wholeheartedly that 3rd person POV has no place in MW:O, but it's inevitable, unfortunately. We just have to suck it up at this point and move forward best we can, in my opinion

Once they add the functionality to the "hardcore" options in the drop menu you'll never have to play against people using 3pv either suck it up and play anyways or wait until they do, and your premium time (if you activated it) is going to tick down whether you play or not so it will only be wasted "if" you choose not to play.

[Lance425]

SanGan, on 20 August 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

no

Ditto.

[Grimmnyr]

A better protest would be to shoot any mechs that are using 3pv as a priority.

[BFett]

Well this has been moved to the spam section. I guess that's better than having it locked but really? Where is freedom of speech if I'm not breaking the Code of Conduct?

[Mike Forst]

I haven't played the game lately but it's not a boycott. I just haven't had the time.

[GetinmyBellah]

Omni 13, on 20 August 2013 - 12:48 PM, said:

Once they add the functionality to the "hardcore" options in the drop menu you'll never have to play against people using 3pv either suck it up and play anyways or wait until they do, and your premium time (if you activated it) is going to tick down whether you play or not so it will only be wasted "if" you choose not to play.

I said:

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We just have to suck it up at this point and move forward best we can, in my opinion

Did you not comprehend my last sentence and the fact I also stated I will not forfeit the time I just activated, because it would essentially be a monetary waste? Thank you for your input, regardless.

Mike Forst, on 20 August 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

I haven't played the game lately but it's not a boycott. I just haven't had the time.

Coming from a Staff Member this makes no sense...

[BookWyrm]

Hasn't Battletech always had 3rd person view? I mean, look at TT, I wasn't inside those tiny pewter robots...