Jherej, on 18 April 2014 - 10:14 AM, said:
You are totally not getting what I said. Pay to win means that you can buy power you otherwise had to earn by playing. Starting in noob league and working upwards.
And YOU are totally not getting what EVERYONE ELSE HERE has said.
Pay-to-Win, in the opinion of MOST gamers, means only being able to obtain/achieve by use of real-world funds, or there being unrealistically high grind associated with obtaining/achieving without using real-world funds.
NOT THE CASE IN MWO.
You wanna see P2W? Go check out Ghost Recon Online. Witness the UbiSoft profit-over-everything-else machine in its full glory. It's disgusting.
With the exception of hero and champion mechs (the former are, more often than not, inferior to at least one of their C-Bill variants, and the latter are only different for the 10% C-Bill boost), and some improved expendable modules, you can buy anything with C-Bills that you can with cash or MC. If we play a match in JR7-Fs, you on one side in a standard variant, and me on the other in a Champion variant, and your wide wins, and my side loses, then even with the Champion bonus, and even with Premium time stacked on top of that, I'll still likely take home less C-Bills than you do. Since there is nothing about the JR7-F(C) that is different from a JR7-F standard that can be built exclusively with C-Bills, the PAy-to-Win argument falls down here. You and your team, versus me and my team. Whatever skills we have, we have.
If 'starting in noob league and moving upwards' applies here, it's only in that you're going to be matched against less-skilled opponents (on average) as a noob, until you work upward. Even then, the matchmaking/Elo thing isn't working all that well right now. It's a gamble. But you're not being held back from earning C-Bills and XP by virtue of being new. In fact, your first couple dozen matches earn you a BONUS, simply for being a noob. I know, that's so OP and P2W, to help the new guys build up their cash more quickly, so they can get a jump on buying their first mech.
Not able to find a team? Try TEAM SPEAK. Google it. It's out there, it's free, there are free-to-you (NOT P2W) TS3 servers all over the internet for MWO. Find your closest ComStar TS3 server. And learn to start/join a group, whether 4-man or 12, with the folks you talk to on TS3.
Y'know, when you're not too busy trolling.
No, it's not any of the other MW games. You're right about that. It is its own game. Don't like it? Sorry.
Call it out for what's really wrong with the game. You'll get a bazillion likes and be this forum's favorite new poster.
Call it out for what it isn't? No, that's trolling.
Shame this forum isn't pay-to-troll...