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[Anjian]

I was thinking of buying the entire pack, or at least six of the mechs. I am giving myself this month of May to reevaluate MWO after an absence since January.

I am beset by all sorts of login, perpetual connection sync, disconnection problems centered around the UI which itself looks and feels very awkward, same old boring maps, an annoying pro-light, pro LRM meta, truly fuzzy, muddy looking graphics, stained glass (some game does this so much better), having feet trapped in many of the maps especially River City. I especially hate the random drops.

Every night I open the game to play, the % of me buying the packs keeps eroding downward.

[Boymonkey]

Bilbo, on 14 May 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

Bah...I should be a space billionaire right now, but I keep building all these mechs... then rebuilding them.... and so on and so forth.

Myself also...I shouldn't play drunk I have sold hero mechs before and never have much more than a few million cbils...yes Iam that idiot lol.

[Pale Jackal]

Creovex, on 16 May 2014 - 09:05 PM, said:

Yeah, Titanfall is a port.... Find me a PC game, not some **** box port. Yeah, we can all wait on Steam to throw a discount sale, but it is OLD content, not new content like this is advertising....

I advise you to look at some deals websites then. The last game I paid near full price for was Skyrim. Oh, I guess by your logic that counts as a port too. Bioshock Infinity is another awful port I suppose too... regardless, I don't need videogames or Clan mechs day 1.

[GalaxyBluestar]

so are we confident with our purchases?



really?

[wickwire]

the thing that bugs me the most at the moment is the PPC/AC5 pinpoint meta, but I guess the good players will always try to find the best builds...

wow now this sounds stupid, I mean half of the game is about finding the optimum build isnt it

[Sidekick]

wickwire, on 17 May 2014 - 12:51 AM, said:

the thing that bugs me the most at the moment is the PPC/AC5 pinpoint meta, but I guess the good players will always try to find the best builds...

wow now this sounds stupid, I mean half of the game is about finding the optimum build isnt it

The largest problem of this isn´t that it´s "boring" for a certain (unknown, lack of statistics) amount of players.
The key problem of this meta is that it makes a lot of chassis totally redundant, because it is easy to sort out the mechs that can and can not follow the meta. From this point on, it´s pure streamlining down to the best choice and a lot of chassis fall short and rot unbought in the store.
This makes mech creation inefficient for PGI; if they invest time and money into creating a mech that is not bought or enriches the player expirience, they have burned money.

[El Bandito]

Another problem is the current meta is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay superior than the second best build, whatever that is. There is just no contest.

[TLBFestus]

I hope people are reading this. Now, I'm an admitted "DONT BUY ANYTHING" type of guy, but even if you are not in that category, if you are thinking of buying these things, think about what many are saying in this thread.

It's like PGI is trying to sell you some Cars, but the hook is that's all they will tell you.

PGI: "Hey.....we've got these great new cars to sell you and if you buy them in a group you can have them for only X dollars!"

Player: "Wow, cool! What's the mileage? Are they all new? What kinda engine, tires, accessories do they come with?"

PGI: "We won't tell you that, and even if we did it's likely a that we will switch those tires and remove the sound system before delivery"

Player: "But it comes with Bluetooth and air-conditioning right?"

PGI: "Well, we are thinking about that, so yes! However the bluetooth isn't really going to work the way you think it is and the air-conditioning is likely to be down-graded to power windows, for more "environmental" heat dissipation.

Player: "Got it! So if you make those changes after I pay for these cars, you will adjust the price!"

PGI: "Oh no, just pay us Full price based on what we don't tell you and you think you should get, and we will keep that cash because we, well it's kinda complicated, math and all....you wouldn't understand".

Player: "TAKE MY MONEY!!! I LOVE your business mode, it's so flexiblel!!!"

PGI: "I love you man! Did you want engines with those?"

[ArmandTulsen]

TLBFestus, on 17 May 2014 - 07:32 AM, said:

I hope people are reading this. Now, I'm an admitted "DONT BUY ANYTHING" type of guy, but even if you are not in that category, if you are thinking of buying these things, think about what many are saying in this thread.

It's like PGI is trying to sell you some Cars, but the hook is that's all they will tell you.

PGI: "Hey.....we've got these great new cars to sell you and if you buy them in a group you can have them for only X dollars!"

Player: "Wow, cool! What's the mileage? Are they all new? What kinda engine, tires, accessories do they come with?"

PGI: "We won't tell you that, and even if we did it's likely a that we will switch those tires and remove the sound system before delivery"

Player: "But it comes with Bluetooth and air-conditioning right?"

PGI: "Well, we are thinking about that, so yes! However the bluetooth isn't really going to work the way you think it is and the air-conditioning is likely to be down-graded to power windows, for more "environmental" heat dissipation.

Player: "Got it! So if you make those changes after I pay for these cars, you will adjust the price!"

PGI: "Oh no, just pay us Full price based on what we don't tell you and you think you should get, and we will keep that cash because we, well it's kinda complicated, math and all....you wouldn't understand".

Player: "TAKE MY MONEY!!! I LOVE your business mode, it's so flexiblel!!!"

PGI: "I love you man! Did you want engines with those?"

LMAO

[Kaemon]

All of this screwing around, when all we want is Urbie on Urbie violence...

[MonkeyCheese]

For anyone interested I finally said screw it its just 30 bucks so I gave in and got the Uller pack.

Couldn't resist clan ballistics on a clan light mech looks like fun and I look forward to the challenge. I'll prob just Cbill any others I want in the future.

[Dymlos2003]

GalaxyBluestar, on 17 May 2014 - 12:44 AM, said:

so are we confident with our purchases?



really?

Rarely updates probably a month or 2.

[Sidekick]

Dymlos2003, on 18 May 2014 - 08:07 PM, said:

Rarely updates probably a month or 2.

What does this mean, anyway. We as customers do not know how the total workload invested is and how many hours of work they estimate is required. The Launch Module/3333 desaster clearly shows that a progress of 100% could mean 25% in reality.

Every feature boils down to "when it´s done" and "when it´s good". Everything else is just marketing.
And on that note: I think PGI is shooting in their own foot with the "Plan", because they can´t keep up with it and their current results do not match the advertised progress. Sooner or later, this will come of as "lieing on a new channel"

[Tetryon88]

VigilanceHawkwind, on 14 May 2014 - 01:49 PM, said:

What's the endgame for most online shooters? Become better? Unlock all content(grind)?

What was the endgame and gameplay for MW4's online multiplayer for that matter?

How about Counter Strike where you spend the totality of the game buying an AK47, an M4 or an AWP over and over again. 75 percent of the primary weapons in those games were second and third tier.

You all seem to be under the collective delusion that we are playing something other than a Multiplayer FPS.

you were saying?

[ArmandTulsen]

Tetryon88, on 18 May 2014 - 10:00 PM, said:

you were saying?

[Kaemon]

ArmandTulsen, on 18 May 2014 - 11:41 PM, said:

Edited by Kaemon, 19 May 2014 - 04:05 AM.