Posted 16 September 2014 - 02:02 PM
I uninstalled this game about four months ago, haven't even looked at the forums as well.
I get an email today from a buddy who's still playing, pointing out this Anniversary bit. I've just read through all 43 pages of this choirboy blow-fest. I'm not impressed.
As a legendary founder / Overlord, it seems that I qualify for the nearly all of the free loot. Bleh.
Folks, there is a saying I'm fond of: If You polish a t-u-r-d, it's still a t-u-r-d. And make no mistake, it sounds like this game is still a t-u-r-d.
I own about 41 mechs. A few more are meaningless. The Cent-AH was My least favorite of the Cents, so that's of little use to Me. I'm the worst assault player out there, those things just don't suit My play style or abilities, so another Atlas and a King Crab is about as much use to Me as a screen door on a submarine.
Another cockpit item? Whoopee.
FIX THE GAME.
How about hit detection that works? "New" mechs that all feature AC20s are pointless when I can fire an AC20 slug directly into a still target.... AND GET NOTHING.
How about a matchmaker that doesn't give Me 11 windowlicker teammates who's idea of tactics is to run a whole 150 meters to the nearest rock and have a group hug until the arty strikes massacre Them, while the opposing team has the House Of Limpwrists, who violate the CoC all match every match by macro-spamming the global chat so no one can communicate, unless said-spammers stop to spew insults at Their pray. I don't expect to win every match, hell, I'd be fine with a 40/60 win/loss, but when I have to suffer the humiliation of one win out of ten, some over-paid collage boy needs to figure out this whole "programming" thing and make a MM that isn't the spawn of satan.
How about features? Destructible terrain, rear-view, dynamic weather, collisions, melee, animated cockpit displays, Force feedback, etc. Mechwarrior three has this "modern" piece of software beat in nearly every aspect. "LOL, don't blame us, it's Cryengine's fault". THEN WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS SPIFFY DID YOU CHOOSE CRYENGINE!?!?!?
Map design. Are mechs, 30-foot-tall bipedal war machines, still getting stuck on 1-foot rocks? I bet they are.
Working patches. When I left, PGI had failed to put together a working patch... THREE PATCH CYCLES IN A ROW. I don't mean They released a few patches with issues, I mean they screwed up so bad three cycles in a row that the game was rendered nearly unplayable and had to be rolled back. Why should I pay for low quality?
If PGI announced the crab, a fifty-ton energy platform, I'd be a bit interested. If They announced the Urbanmech, I'd have allready reinstalled the game, just so I could arrange the Urbie Derby. If They announced that they had fix most of the issues above, I'd be happy. This is the exact same game, just with a few free toys thrown in.
To make it perfectly clear, PGI could God-mode My account, permanent premium time, all paint, all chassis, Etc, and I wouldn't give a ****, because the game itself is flawed at it's very core. It is not fun. It is not worth My time. IT IS NOT MECHWARRIOR.
I have a special computer I built, just for old MW games. A crumby I815 mainboard, 512 Mb of ram, the almighty Pentium III 1.4 Ghz tualatin cpu, a SB live! 5.1 sound card, a MSI Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4800 Gpu, a 16" viewable flat CRT, and a MS Sidewinder Force feedback pro joystick. Oh, and Windows 98se. I can play any Mechwarrior game I want. MWO has a lot to live up to, and has a lot to make up for before it can hope to get My support.
Oh, and lets not forget that as an ever-changing, online-only game, players are pretty much required to read these forums for up-to-date info on the state of the game. And this forum has terrible, corrupt moderators with no accountability. They'll wipe out a post or thread without explaining their actions, or mod Your ass if You flag an inappropriate post that they like (it happened to Me, You know who You are).
TL;DR: LOL nope, I have real video games to play. Steam gets a lot of My money these days.
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Sephlock, on 16 September 2014 - 12:19 PM, said:
