Yellonet, on 29 August 2015 - 12:15 PM, said:
Edit: It's not just the attitude towards fellow gamers, but the attitude towards PGI and towards specific developers is absolutely disgusting and completely undeserved.
I checked your profile, I see that you've only been here a month at best, so let me attempt to explain to you why the attitude towards PGI and some specific developers are very, very hostile.
You see, many of us, especially with the tag you see by my name, have been here since the beginning... I personally have been a member of this forum since 2011, and was entered into the closed beta with the second wave of invites [before they borked the system and sent invites to everyone].
Mechwarrior Online was one of the first games that popularized the trend of "Founders packages" and using your playerbase to fund a game that's still in development. As such, many of us felt we had a stake in the game from day one.
Then, things started to change, to sway from the vision that the dev's had pitched us initially, see, all the way back in 2011 even, there were design documents for what MWO was looking to shape into. but during closed beta even, the game started to pull away from those core design pillars.
Then, came wild balance changes that made little to no sense. Then there was the introduction of ECM and how that was handled, then the announcement of adding a 3rd person view when we had flat out been told "We will never add 3rd person to the game" Then consumeables and coolant flush modules when we were told "We will never add coolant to the game."
Then there was the famous "On an Island" quote. Saying that those of us that were rallying against things [like 3rd person view, which had a poll that had 5000 votes against 3rd person being added.] were all alone and not representative of the playerbase in any way.
We've been kicked, lied to, backstabbed, and over all treated like trash over the years.
Then, PGI bucked off the prior publisher IGP... and things have gotten, markedly better. Content is getting added at a fairly regular pace, we finally got Community Warfare after 2.5 years of them teasing us with it. Balance is frankly, in one of the best places it's ever been. and community interaction and events have gone way up.
But, there's still that distrust... PGI and IGP both, kicked their most loyal playerbase in the balls, repeatedly. Mechwarrior fans are a hearty breed, we've seen the loss of the Unseen, and their return due to legal issues, we've seen 10 years without a mechwarrior game until MWO, and dedicated Mechwarrior fans kept it alive by getting the rights to release Mechwarrior 4 Mercs for free... We, the Mechwarrior community, have been through a TON. But NEVER, has the Mechwarrior community been through the absolute abuse that PGI and IGP has put us through.
Yet many of us are still here, we used to joke, in fairly bad taste I'll admit, that we're the battered wives of the Mechwarrior community, we keep hanging on, because frankly, we have nowhere else to go. Hawken doesn't have the same kind of combat, Titanfall was ok but ultimately isn't Battletech/Mechwarrior... There's a universe here too many of us love, and we love it passionately.
And when fans love something passionately, the forums are where they come to vent, to air out the hate and the vitrol, despite our sticking around. Because there are no other Mechwarrior games openly being played... there's no competition, there's no where else for us to go to get or mecha fix that has a similar feel to Mechwarrior...So we stick around.
That, is why there is so much hate and vitrol... because we've been abused, so we push back.
Edited by Flash Frame, 29 August 2015 - 06:08 PM.
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