I'm in.
We were promised a lot in the beginning - how the game would not be a race to get the biggest and shiniest mechs, role warfare, Community warfare, no 3PV (the bane of MW4), etc.
Instead people cried about repair and rearm costs, and abused the 75% free refill (don't know how that was supposed to be a good idea, as it just fed the LRM-Spam-online meta...). The game shifted from one involving mediums and heavies, to a game of assaults - because if you don't have to worry about paying to fix that tricked out Atlas that you foolishly wasted in a solo charge, or restocking the 1000+ rounds of LRM ammo you spammed into the countryside, then you have no reason to not carry on with that nonsense and get back into a cost effective mech.
ECM came in right after launch, while its counter measures took 6 months to fully come online.
Team balancing has been a never ending source of frustration - first we had nothing, them came 8 man teams vs whatever was available, then tonnage matching (still with 8 vs whatever), then 4man (which still tended to take two 4mans and put them together, vs 8 randoms), then ELO (now weight imbalanced), now 12 man...
(which to be fair has diluted the teams in terms of skills, but now us organised teams need to find 12 peeps to join the competitive queues - 12 months ago, no problem, now we are struggling as a lot of our guys have called it quits)
Jump Jets and PPC's got buffed at the same time that PGI released the Mech most capable of boating them (HGN-732) - They were warned about Poptarting ruining game play in MW4 back in close beta...
(On a personal note, I didn't care much for Stalkers prior to PPC's becoming viable... And I struggled to get the best out of the HGN-732, until I tried the arm-lock option - another 'newbie help' feature that is open to veteran players abusing it
)
Now we get 3rd Person. Now I can tell you that I won't be throwing my toys out and demanding a refund, as I still like playing this game with the few friends who still do -
But I do not like where it is going, and I will be abusing the heck out of 3rd person until such point as the development team realise this is yet another 'monster' they have unleashed!
To everyone in this thread who says "well I can see your drone so I know you are there" - well, yes you can - but is that drone hovering over my Hunchback or my ("baby seal clubbing") ERPPC+SRM Stalker?
I can probably see you and your team mates from that drone -
and if I can, I'll be telling my (hidden) DHB buddies over TS what you have, and which mechs to target first... Seismic does not tell you what that blip represents, nor does it show stationary mechs. You know I am there, but you do not know what I am piloting, or what else I have as back up -
THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE.
tl:dr
PGI, wake up and smell the coffee - and if you have, please serve some of it to your masters.
Edited by Tiger 6, 25 August 2013 - 09:10 AM.