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This topic is lockedThis game could have been great. At this point the developer has lost the ability to create original or balanced content. The maps are outdated, the mech packs far too expensive, the game play has been reduced to bottle necking on the maps, players who only want to hold one button to fire missiles, and overall the game technology is a lame duck. After spending about $220 over the last year, this pay to play competitively model (or free to play smoke screen) has shown to be nothing but a fishnet for low end talent in the game industry.
It is companies like this that are destroying the game industry and leading to massive layoffs and high end studio closures. As a whole, we as gamers have a responsibility to ensure that second hand developers like Phirana cannot just buy an IP and release low end, high cost to consumer titles. We finance non-creative creatives because we hope that it will get better, but it will not. If they cannot release clan tech at an acceptable industry cost , then their studio should close naturally because they have neither the executive leadership nor the creative talent to support their efforts. They depend on us the player, to pay for a whole lot of nothing (what it comes down to is a small amount of software engineering and very little modeling, texturing and animation). If you think I am wrong look at the skylanders model. For the same cost ($220), I can get the game, about 50 levels, numerous gameplay modes, endless hours of fun in multiplayer, and I get about 15 well designed plastic figures (at that specific cost point). Titanfall collectors edition, $250, infinately better in every category (from design to software / game execution), and again you would have gotten a bad ass figure.
I will not continue to play, or participate in a game that has no originality or playability. I will not respond to any comments, or justify my statements (I assume the forum CSR will remove this topic because they have already shown poor forum management and know these statements to be true).
If you would like to develop this game Phirana, then search for capital and truly develop a good Mech Warrior title at an acceptable cost (not at the cost of the players who are loyal to the original IP).
Edited by Notsuj, 22 April 2014 - 04:01 PM.
