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[Skadi]

Skyefox, on 02 July 2012 - 07:33 PM, said:

Killstreak I miss the most: The harrier. God that thing was guaranteed for at LEAST a Chopper Gunner, and it shot down other VTOL killstreaks.

lol i remember so many stariotype... cant believe im gonna say it in this post, "Kiddies" that were so bad i got a nuke just standing ontop of destroyed tank in left field of wasteland (when you spawn behind the wall with the unacessable house behind you) using a barret...

[Skyefox]

Skadi, on 02 July 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

lol i remember so many stariotype... cant believe im gonna say it in this post, "Kiddies" that were so bad i got a nuke just standing ontop of destroyed tank in left field of wasteland (when you spawn behind the wall with the unacessable house behind you) using a barret...

HAHA yeah, 1 out of 3 games on Terminal domination was a nuke. We'd have races to see who could get a nuke first, couldn't tell you how many times I'd get a nuke and still be in my killstreak, then someone else would get it and call it in before I could get out.

[Skadi]

MuffinTop, on 02 July 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

He just made another thread," Should the pro gamer get a founders account?"LMAO the hits just keep coming from this guy. He also tells you how to vote, dependant on the criteria for yes and no.

Lmao, yup hes not lying
http://mwomercs.com/...ounder-account/

Mongooser, on 02 July 2012 - 07:28 PM, said:

Judging from the massive POSITIVE response I got from the MWO community, I give you my word(as a professional gamer of course) that if there are more then 250 votes and at least 50% of them are “yes”, I will cough up the $120 and become a founder.

that made me lol far to hard.

Edited by Skadi, 02 July 2012 - 07:42 PM.

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

How many threads do you need to make just to stroke your own epeen as being this big bad "professional gamer"???

[DraigUK]

Bluten, on 02 July 2012 - 07:44 PM, said:

How many threads do you need to make just to stroke your own epeen as being this big bad "professional gamer"???

Heh. Take it for what it is. He made himself look a bit foolish in this thread (OP) but he did have some valid points in there. His new thread is just funny and gave me a laugh. I'm sure he is laughing a lot at most of the responses in this thread, and will laugh a lot more in the new one.

Makes me giggle anyway.

[Sierra19]

Mongooser, on 02 July 2012 - 03:19 PM, said:

You want me to spend a large amount of time researching a game I dont even know if I am going to play? I am in no way tied to MWO, I am just a old MW fan that was surprised he found this game a few days ago, was it wrong of me to make suggestions, ask questions? I mean I am interested in the game.

Actually, yes, I do want you to put a little effort into research. You are an old MW fan, so usually the first thing somebody in your position should do, is investigate, just a little, watch the videos and look at the "new people start here please" thread. I heard about this game quite a while ago, but it dropped off my radar, until a month or two ago, so I came to the site, and said "Hmm I wonder what this game is all about..." and then dug around a bit. You come here brandishing credentials as a professional gamer (i.e. one who gets paid to play games), asking all sorts of questions without even lifting a finger to try and find anything out, then proceed to hop on your soap box and lecture game developers (potential employers, mind you), on how they should make THEIR game. I'm pretty sure the devs aren't dinguses, and from everything I've read, they are pretty up to speed on how good F2P models should work, and how they want to implement BT into a live action game.
So yes, if you are a professionally paid gamer, I would expect one such as yourself to be well informed, about a game you are posting questions about. After all that IS what you get paid for right? To be well informed about a potential product, as well as be well versed in the game mechanics of said product, so you can give accurate and useful feedback to your employer. It should be almost second nature, if you've been doing it for any length of time (even if you are not currently employed by this particular company). I am far from a fanboy, but your original post comes off as a bit smug/superior, hence all the negative vibes in this thread.

[William Petersen]

I'd love to know what "valid points" he made in this thread to which people keep ambigulously alluding.

[Schtirlitz]

Desperation is leaking from everywhere

[Skadi]

William Petersen, on 02 July 2012 - 07:54 PM, said:

I'd love to know what "valid points" he made in this thread to which people keep ambigulously alluding.

None?

[William Petersen]

Skadi, on 02 July 2012 - 08:04 PM, said:

None?

That's what I was thinking, but people keep saying "He had some valid points but..." so I have been wondering what they're seeing that I'm not seeing.

[Mortimir]

Granted, I didn't read all 18 pages.. maybe 2-3 pages worth total, but surprised no one brought up the psych angle on this guy? You rarely see a more obvious and desperate plea for attention. The people bagging on him don't understand he doesn't care if he gets good or bad attention, just needs to have people spend time responding to him so he feels validated.

How can you not feel sorry for this guy?

[Skadi]

Mortimir, on 02 July 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

Granted, I didn't read all 18 pages.. maybe 2-3 pages worth total, but surprised no one brought up the psych angle on this guy? You rarely see a more obvious and desperate plea for attention. The people bagging on him don't understand he doesn't care if he gets good or bad attention, just needs to have people spend time responding to him so he feels validated.

How can you not feel sorry for this guy?

well all 18 pages were filled with troll storming from both sides

[Skyefox]

I win.

[Daeso]

Later.... this thread gave me a headache.

[Saevus]

I labored through that post, only to be left wondering why you didn't read ANYTHING about MWO before posting your sage advice for the devs here. Also, I am a professional beer drinker because I've spent thousands of dollars on beer throughout my life, my 2 cents, they need to have some of those helmets that hold 2 beer cans with different mechs on them, so I can drink beer from a helmet with my favorite mech on the side without taking my hands off my joystick.

[Todd Lee]

Don't let the door hit your ego on the way out.

[Dihm]

Skyefox, on 02 July 2012 - 08:09 PM, said:

I win.

Pff, if you're going to poach, make sure the person you're poaching from isn't paying attention.

[Walter Soebchak]

Professional gamer...... lol.............................. Can't wait to run you through the wringer.

[Skadi]

Todd Lee, on 02 July 2012 - 08:11 PM, said:

Don't let the door hit your ego on the way out.

Sorry it cant fit through the door.

[SuomiWarder]

On the off chance that Mongooser still slinks back to read this thread even though he has said he plans to post no more .....

I am a professional writer. I base this claim on having recieved royalty checks for stories in an anothology that was not published by me, and because I have published and sold at profit game books for the pen and paper crowd through my own company. And even been asked to sign some of them. In the spirit of total truthdom - I do not make enough from writing to live off of - but I'm still working on that - and my spelling is often horrible. (That's what editors are for )

Somewhere deep in this list of pages you commented that you were not aware you could imply a tone in a written message of text. Please believe me sir, you certainly can. And often inadvertantly. My surmation is that you hoped to impart your original comments with a tone of authority and draw measured responses on the upper level strategy of crafting a free to play game. You saw your results, a pile of hate mail for the "professional". Not really sure I agree with the haters, but I understand where they were coming from and do not dismiss them as "kiddies" even if there was childish behavior.

You had some valid concerns, a few of which I even share. Many specific points have been covered, so I will only touch upon the concept of "end game". There are many storied events in BTech lore that can be used as mile-stones to a longer narraitive with the Clan invasion being the most obvious one,. So I guess it will be more a matter of players living out scenarios that start and end. Like Star Wars and Star Trek, there is no final end to the story. So there cannot be a destroy the One Ring type moment for BTech MWO players.

Having run a MW4 league I can imagine many things the devs could do to implement team play and build small communities that interact with each other. So I have hope that they will manage to pull something together as they are collecting the paychecks to make this all work and not me.

I do wish that the devs would seriously lay out their community warfare plans. I know they don't plan to have that stuff active until maybe December, but it would go a long way towards quelling my nervousness about the viability of the merc unit I am helping run to know what their plans are so we can do whatever we can do to prepare and work on building our own small community around some type of theme or purpose.

Other than that, all I have to add is that old school B Tech fans are very possessive about what they see as "their" game. And any tone of egoism or elitism is often cruelly crushed. Sure, I bet many units internally think they are the best players and know how the game should best be created - but they keep that talk in their own unit forums and don't run around here shouting "We dominated League XYZ back in the day so our opinion is obviously the best". It's just not the way we middle aged kiddes operate around these parts.