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[Riverboat Sam]

Seems to me we go through four phases with any game....

1. It's all new and cool. Enthusiasm is the order of the day. We try to get our friends involved. We spend money if we have it.

2. Develop our play style. Find our favorite matches, scenarios, friends to play with, etc. This is the main game we play.

3. Game is getting old. We start to find more and more about it annoys us. It gets harder to convince friends to play.

4. Just stop playing it, or nearly so. The account is there. We might go back to it now and then.

A million things can effect how and when we move from one phase to the next. The question here is, what would move you into phase 3 with MWO? What would put you into the slide towards the exit?

I watched Mack1's videos and what seemed to do it to him was that too many promises were broken. Community warfare never materialized. Destructible terrain never came. Then he started seeing nothing but flaws and soon he was gone.

Darqueling recently ended his MWO series after 50 vids. He stated flatly that the game just could not provide the one thing he wanted from it - a fun time gaming online with his friends. He found that dropping with a small group of friends and getting stomped over and over by 12 man groups just was not fun. End of the road for him.

SideStrafe has pretty much moved on, though he hasn't officially announced it. Watching his vids it seemed his play style of sniping in the PUG queue just got too repetitive. The he started complaining a lot about he low quality of the maps. Then he moved on to War Thunder.

I found the game just a couple months ago. Perhaps having more money than sense I bought the Masakari pack AND the Wave 2 clan pack. Really starting to regret that now. I'm afraid that my "stage 3 realization", is that there really isn't much variation in this game. The play is just getting so repetitive. It does not help that PGI keeps jiggering the meta all over the place patch after patch. It only takes a day or two before the experienced players have adapted to the latest patch. This game itself is starting to annoy me. Sure sign I'm entering stage 3.

[Monkey Lover]

Really just a over all better game. I only have so much free time if another game comes around I will play it.

[Redshift2k5]

I can identify exact moments when I gave up on some other concurrent free to play games, including Neverwinter, War Thunder and Warframe. MWO, I'm still having a great time and still feel like I am improving, and I'm also still very invested in the New Player Help forum which is what makes this a hobby to me moreso than just a game.

Edited by Redshift2k5, 01 November 2014 - 09:28 AM.

[STEF_]

I'm not bored of BT yet, despite 20 years have passed.
I think I'll get bored of MWO when pgi would decide to turn it too much away from BT.
I hope they won't, of course.... but I would like this game to be more BT-ish.
I, and I think many players here, am here not for MWO "per se", but for the phrase "a Battletech related game"

Edited by Stefka Kerensky, 01 November 2014 - 09:34 AM.

[Abisha]

how exactly do "one" quit a game that's free to play?.
also MWO do really not care 'if friends' stop playing game is alive and kicking with PuG's.

but what will really push my buttons, if the game force PuG's to fight group/Premades.
also a Forced on Voice of IP will really be a serious dislike for me.

Edited by Abisha, 01 November 2014 - 09:41 AM.

[Shazarad]

Ive been playing since closed beta and I'm still in Stage 1 to Stage 2 area.

[RalphVargr]

Abisha, on 01 November 2014 - 09:37 AM, said:

how exactly do "one" quit a game that's free to play?

They stop playing. Just like I stopped playing Wargaming.net's games.

[Joseph Mallan]

Community Warfare being nothing more than a simple scoreboard.

[Abisha]

RalphVargr, on 01 November 2014 - 09:56 AM, said:

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They stop playing. Just like I stopped playing Wargaming.net's games.

hmm but MWO is kind of unique their is no "other" same sort of game in existence.
not like the 100.000 MMO's with fantasy unicorns, and pet dragons or "put name" first person shooter what is all general the same crap

[Felio]

Whenever I give up on the group queue ever being fixed for small and duo groups.

[Joseph Mallan]

Abisha, on 01 November 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:

hmm but MWO is kind of unique their is no "other" same sort of game in existence.
not like the 100.000 MMO's with fantasy unicorns, and pet dragons or "put name" first person shooter what is all general the same crap

This is both less than and different than those games.

[Saint Scarlett Johan]

What would make me quit?

If they threw in a series of mechanics that lowered the skill cap. That would make me leave.

[Vassago Rain]

I took a pretty long break between goldmech announcement to the beta P2W tournament.

Then I was gonna go away forever during the transverse/ban everybody saga, but things changed a bit, and most of us came back

If they were to go back to the old ban happy ways, or communication starts faltering after yet another grab deal, it's ogre. Same if they try to stick us with some awful, terrible mechanics that they don't feel like fixing for several months, aka poptart wars, 4 man only drops, bad SRMs... Not gonna deal with anything like that in 2014.

Edited by Vassago Rain, 01 November 2014 - 10:13 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Vassago Rain, on 01 November 2014 - 10:11 AM, said:

I took a pretty long break between goldmech announcement to the beta P2W tournament.

Then I was gonna go away forever during the transverse/ban everybody saga, but things changed a bit, and most of us came back

And as much as you and I butt heads, I am glad you are not gone. We see thing very differently as far as this game goes. But PGI needs to see polar opposites fight over the issues. Its good for the game development process.

[RalphVargr]

Abisha, on 01 November 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:

hmm but MWO is kind of unique their is no "other" same sort of game in existence.
not like the 100.000 MMO's with fantasy unicorns, and pet dragons or "put name" first person shooter what is all general the same crap

Nerf LRM's out of existence, and cut income more, and you will discover some of those unicorn games...

Vassago Rain, on 01 November 2014 - 10:11 AM, said:

If they were to go back to the old ban happy ways, or communication starts faltering after yet another grab deal, it's ogre.

You bet I will go back to table top OGRE...

[AlexEss]

PGI pulling the plug... I pretty much never quit a game.. i just play them more or less.

[Brody319]

If they reduced the size of gauss rifles to half the number of slots, half the tonnage, and removed the 2 gauss limit. I would quit. Really not much they can do but go up at this point.

[InspectorG]

Weak community warfare + not fun anymore = me walking away.

You will not hear me complain though. It is what it is and i spend the time i want on it. I do not expect gaming nirvana to cure my life ills.
PGI is at cross roads here. 3 paths. One low, one middle, and one that can be great. Its up to PGI to see the potential.
Low road, im out, thanks for all the fish.
Middle road, if its fun ill stick around.
High road, ill tell all my friends and budget more money for MWO.

[Rivy]

I quit over a year ago
in fact, I wonder what would make me come back....

[Green Mamba]

Pgi not to deliver a Majority of what was promised in this

Yes I have it Bookmarked

Edited by Green Mamba, 01 November 2014 - 10:42 AM.