Um, I`m all for MMO`s and things of that such, as a proud player of EvE, but tell me what did WoW start from, or guild wars? They both started from a single player (and in Warcrafts case also multiplayer) game. A game that cost a lot less money than they do today, along with a fresh community to absorb this new content called video games. Now tell me, what has PGI started with. Well for starters they have an expensive gaming engine and an already thirsty community, on top of the fact that it doesn't take 100k to make a game anymore. It takes ALOT, LIKE ALOT ALOT, more money to make a game these days, and that's just the beginning of the monetary burden they are. You have massive servers to pay for, techs that fix the servers when they crash, security to protect those servers, and boatloads of other costs, JUST FOR THE SERVERS! And to put out new content year round, you need the money to pay those to make it, then the money to get it copyrighted, then the money to implement the content into the actual mechanics. Now I`m going to stop beating a dead horse and say one final thing regarding money, if WoW charges 15 dollars a month and MWO charges 0 dollars a month, and one has a community the size of New York city and the other has one the size of a small city, then tell me why is WoW able to put out content every couple months, and PGI struggles to put out new content every few months? Oh wait, that's right, because WoW has a monthly sub, that you have to pay mind you, and therefore makes TONS of money. Where as PGI gets 0 dollars from most players and those that support it pay roughly about 200+ a year. Idk if you know how to do math, but I`m pretty sure that this game doesn't progress because they are taking our money and running, but the fact they barely have enough to call it even at the end of the day. I`m not sure where you get the concept they take our money and run, if we do get content every month, maybe its not godly different content that changes the whole game, but its still content and STILL costs money. So do you get why WoW can put out game changing content every few months, where as PGI cant? Or do I need to dumb It down?
Now in regards to the community getting laid low and being ignored. I think It is quite the contrary. I think PGI listens to the community too much, as wasn't it the community that cried for a nerf to balance jump snipers? Wasn't it the community that asked for the nerf on boating weapons? Wasn't it the community that cried for the gold mechs to include the Warhawk pack? I don't think it was just something that just popped into Russ`s head. I think they do listen, and yall are just too ignorant, or maybe just dont want to see, that they listen to the community. I don't think they are forcing us to sub to this game for revenue, I don't think they put out a game altering mech for 500 dollars, and I certainly don't think they are greedy to ask for 500 dollars for a gold mech. They aren't even making you buy it. They aren't making you sub to it nor making you have to buy any pack.
The fact is, you guys *****, and *****, oh and did I forget to mention, *****, that this game sucks and PGI doesn't listen, when I`m pretty sure they pretty much kneel when you call. Yall are like a group of spoiled children, you beg for a toy. Your parents buy the toy, and then the kid down the street gets a new toy as well, which is much cooler than yours. So you beg him to let you play with his toy (lets call it a GI Joe) and he says sure, well you play with the GI joe and when he asks for it back, you give it back reluctantly. So you go home and beg mommy and daddy for that same toy, they look at each other and say ok, but in a few weeks. So you complain, but I want it now! And your parents say, sorry but we don't have that kind of money. So you throw your fit and they finally agree, to make you shut up, and go and get you the toy the next day. Well the kid down the street gets a bike the next day, and its way cooler than that GI joe, so you go and beg your parents again. They look at each other and tell you in a few weeks we don't have the money for it. So you throw your fit yet again, but this time they say the same thing, so you throw an even bigger fit screaming and kicking, and so they say in a week to calm you down. You are unhappy with them for the next week, but play with the GI joe in the meantime. A week passes they say, not today sonny, I`ve got work to do, next weekend. So the same thing happens, and repeats until a few weeks later you get the bike when they actually get the money again, where as the kid down the streets parents are rich.
My point is to show that you are a bunch of spoiled kids given all these games that these companies have put out because they had the money saved up from the beginning and can do that, where as when a game (you highly anticipated and want) comes out and the company doesn't have the money to put out as much content you ***** it doesn't make its deadline and sucks. Well look here kids, game content doesn't grow on trees, nor does money, and if I`m wrong please show me where they do grow on trees as I work making games and would love to put out a multi billion dollar game company. But they don't, so grow up and see that its going to take time and MONEY to make this game like WoW or Guildwars. Its not going to happen overnight, and it sure as hell aint goin to happen in under a year. And to drive the nail into the coffin, it took roughly 5 years from start to finish to make Skyrim, and this is from a company that has made games since gaming was just an infant. So now look at what has come from 2.5 years of work for MWO, its a pretty good game for that time with as little money as they have had to work on. So shush with the absurd theories and the absurd expectations, the reality of it sucks, but you should look at it more often, then you wouldn't be disappointed by it as often.
Edited by Silence Jin Mang, 08 January 2014 - 09:24 PM.
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