The Faceless, on 06 May 2015 - 12:39 PM, said:
OK......I realize that you don't like what they are doing with the game....I understand that you want them fix what you want them too, that seems to be life with MMO's these days. However, you seem to be suggesting that they already have enough funds to operate for an indefinite time frame even if all income stopped at this point. When you can cite actual numbers to what their operational costs are, when you can show conclusively that they are NOT working on bugs within the system, when you can show that they are in NO WAY working to improve this game, then you will have a leg to stand on. You will still call me an apologist without actually citing any actual facts, just supposition based on what you think.
I believe that they need to go back and work on specific parts of the game.
- Mech Lab (Work in progress)
- Hit Registration (They have been working on this for a while now and it still needs more work)
- Better Role Warfare (They have already acknowledged this and have even said that they want to work it into CW as a specific match type but at the moment its just an idea that has no form)
- Better New Player Experience (This is one place that I believe they need a LOT of work to be done)
- PVE or Single Player experience (while I would like to see this I believe that this can wait for now)
Since last November (I think) PGI has been much more responsive to the community. They have added a content, They have revisited systems that need work, they have done a MUCH better job of keeping to the timelines that they set for themselves and for us. Overall I believe that they have done a MUCH better job in the last 8 to 10 months and I'm happy with their progress. To keep this up they need funds. Releasing Mech packs has proven to be a good way for them to keep the income flowing. Fair enough. Complaining about them trying to keep the doors open and the game running is idiotic, as all businesses need to do this. Your post really comes across as nothing more than a troll post from someone that is angry that they are not listening specifically to your voice/wants/needs.
Why should we listen to you?
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this post sums it up pretty well.
As for their progress, it's not good enough because it's incredibly slow and PGI often makes terrible decisions when changing or adding anything and it ends up creating a bunch of other problems. PGI has also been known to break their promises with numerous examples in the past, or they'll say something like "yeah we want to work on the mech tree eventually" for the 5th time and then proceed to ignore it for months on end again. PGI makes vague promises for crap that never gets worked on and people line up to shovel out hundreds of dollars for mech packs while over a year later the mech lab UI is finally being worked on a bit more so that it's not a pile of garbage.
Alienized, on 06 May 2015 - 12:33 PM, said:
remember: PGI bought everything out of IGP's hands. im sure that was not cheap.
also: since then, map development and many more things got better and better and better.
its a long road to go but its not possible to do without money.
MC, premium time etc aint paying it all.
Considering how many things there are to buy in the cash shop, how terrible of a business model is that if only new mech packs are what make PGI decent money? Maybe they should stop reaming people in the ass with overpriced content if the issue is that they need more money.
Not an excuse for their shoddy work, also the map development has been mediocre at best with all efforts focused on CW maps that largely suck anyways and the public queue gets completely ignored for months in the meantime as far as any new content.
P.S: It's nice to see a bunch of butthurt apologists reporting the thread into oblivion because it hurts their feelings, keep proving my point fellas!
Edited by Pjwned, 06 May 2015 - 08:25 PM.
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