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[HellJumper]

Hello

this is for people who have been here for more than 6 months. have you reduced your MWO play time? or completely stopped? or increased your playtime of it?

whats the reason?

for me it has been reduced.. kind of a temporary break till more maps come out (even for CW).. and due to hig pings i have started to get after last 2 patches. so my game time is now down to 1 hour or less every day

[CDLord HHGD]

My time is significantly reduced, but through no fault of the game or PGI.

Remodeling a house and buying another really cuts into my time. Hopefully be back to normal mid-May.

[Cementi]

Somewhat reduced here. Mostly due to the fact that the merc unit I am in really likes going clan and while I like my Clan Mechs I am a bit tired of playing the same 2 or 3 chassis in CW.

That CW itself, while fun has gone stale for me. At first I loved it but now that the new shiny has worn off I find myself not a fan of the maps as they lead to very one dimensional engagements. I like them but there are some things about them that I would like to see redisigned (wont go over that here as they are all points many people including myself have made) and more importantly I would like to see new game modes.

New maps for either cw or publics would be nice but if they induce the same senarios then there really is not much new about them. What we really need are some new senarios. Maybe a convoy defense or something.

[C E Dwyer]

I'm playing less, but as cdlord mentioned, its not the games fault, or PGI's

Even if the thing i'm doing wasn't around, it still wouldn't be the games or PGI's fault, but the dumb assed pugs i'm getting saddled with.

If CW was properly populated I have to say while no fan of its design I would do it exclusively as even the pugs mostly play with some inteligence in CW, in Pugland if you find intelligence its a surprise

[Kali Rinpoche]

Playing more than ever.

[Barantor]

Pretty much stopped. I tried CW and I have no interest in it, in it's current state.

I have the mechs that I want, but the quirk changes being so numerous have me waiting even to play non-cw matches since the game seems so in flux at the moment.

A lot of it is the case that there doesn't feel like there is any lore to anything beyond the mechs looking good. Every time I think about updating I just go to another game instead.

I still want to like the game, which is why I check up on it every now and then, but I'm not going to spend any money on it in the foreseeable future.

[Mystere]

Yes, I have reduced my MWO playing time. But it is not in any way the fault of the game or PGI.

[Sir Wulfrick]

I only ever play with my friends these days, never solo. Can't be bothered.

Why? Well, the typical game seems to have become that we all use FOTM / META builds, go to the same positions on the same maps and shoot each other with the same meta builds time after time after time. And why? So that we can earn more c-bills with which to buy more meta mechs so as to go to the same places on the same maps to shoot at each other with different meta builds. Someone once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.

What I play now is, amusingly, almost entirely CW.

How this could be fixed? Firstly things other than meta builds should be made viable. Couldn't care less right now HOW that's done but I'm sick to death of seeing laser vomit stormcrows, wubshees, "timbergods" (I predict that once the JJ animation for the timberwolf is fixed the river of tears from poor pilots who think they're good because of the jj animation shield will be EPIC), LL-equipped 4Ns etc etc etc. Every match, every map the same mechs all the time. Great way to spend what little gaming time I have.

Secondly, given the awesome history and lore that comes with the Battletech universe, WHY do we have what amounts to little more than team DM games? Fine, all modes except CW are fine... For Solaris arena matches... But this should be only one small part of the game! I want to take part in huge battles with objectives and opposing battalions and objectives and multi-phase missions that have objectives. I want to feel like I'm a small part of a very large WAR. Put the damned WAR back in to Mechwarrior!! That being said, I'm not at all sure that the Crye engine is capable of that sort of grandeur, but that ship sailed a long time ago didn't it.

In short, I want a non-repetitive reason to keep playing.

[Metus regem]

Depends on what I want to go and do with my little free time... between work, wife, house, Toddler and demanding job, I'm lucky to find anytime to game. Right now, I'll do MWO till the Rackghoul event is over in SWTOR... go figure I get a new character to a world, and that world gets the Rackghoul event... Ahh well at least it's only a week long.

[Templar Dane]

My friends got really put off by the paulconomy and eventually I did too. They left for what seems like permanently and now I just check the forums from time to time to see if there's any changes I'd care for.

[C E Dwyer]

Metus regem, on 01 April 2015 - 07:09 AM, said:

Depends on what I want to go and do with my little free time... between work, wife, house, Toddler and demanding job, I'm lucky to find anytime to game. Right now, I'll do MWO till the Rackghoul event is over in SWTOR... go figure I get a new character to a world, and that world gets the Rackghoul event... Ahh well at least it's only a week long.

lol so thats back is it, daughter will love it

[BourbonFaucet]

Time has been reduced.

Toxic people who won't let people play how they want without a thrashing, lack of balance, and CW being for big groups only.

[Phlinger]

I've stopped playing but keep an eye on the forums. When PGI finally stops blanket nerfing the clans or fixes their IS quirk system, I'll be back.

I tried to come back during the first weeks of CW, but with work and getting sick over the X-mas holidays and the shadow of nerfs hanging over the forums, I find it hard to want to come back, even now. Shadowrun Returns mods and SWTOR are keeping me busy for now when I'm not trying to get in at least 2-3k words a day.

[Axeface]

I haven't play for about a week, don't think I'll be playing much either except to shoot a few urbanmechs. Levelling the grasshopper, the constant challenges and being a pug player in CW burnt me out, completely. The biggest reason was the MM making me lose about 75% of matches for a week, however.

Edited by Axeface, 01 April 2015 - 08:49 AM.

[jackswift]

I have greatly reduced my time. A lot of my mechs don't have the engines they need (mostly mediums, lights, plus DRGs and QDKs) so I can't play them. I have been working on getting engines for most of them but the prices are outrageous. Not being able to play those I want just makes me not enjoy the playtime I put in.

[r4plez]

Almost stopped playing this game, mostly due PaulInouye *game ballance ideas*. Now am just updating client and from time to time I test new maps&stuff.

Edited by r4plez, 01 April 2015 - 09:18 AM.

[DaZur]

Actually sat down and figured this out one night...

Prior to open beta and post reset, I've averaged roughly 11 hours a week.

I do know in closed beta I probably invested maybe 1 to 3 more hours a week than now...

Take from this what you will.

[Joseph Mallan]

I played the hell out of this game for 4-6 hours a night for 6-9 months. Then Went PUG to see how Elo worked. Now the game is ... nothing! Walk around kill some folk get nothing for it.

Add to that that I have worked everyday since September last year minus 1 week for X-mas break, and I just don't have gaming in me any more. I play a bit here and there but Why play a game that goes no where?

Edited by Joseph Mallan, 01 April 2015 - 09:20 AM.

[El Bandito]

No time for MWO, gotta level up the Heroes of the Storm Babe Squad.

[LordBraxton]

When I have IRL friends online to play only... The earnings are too low for PUG matches to hold interest. My hours have steadily declined along with MWO's quality. Best MWO was CB MWO. The cicada patch killed MWO. (knockdowns and good graphics removed iirc, double heatsinks added)

Edited by LordBraxton, 01 April 2015 - 09:22 AM.