DAYLEET, on 18 March 2016 - 03:23 PM, said:
/rambling/
Its a game that is never going to be finished in the sense that they will always develop it. People will inevitably grow tired and go play other new games and hopefuly will come back eventually, replacing other players taking a break from their tour of duty. You can't ask people to exclusively play a fps for ever, it's not realistic or even logical. Im in Path of Exile right now and before that i was in Elite, im sure many others are elsewhere taking a break. It must be the nature of a game that never dies to create a new better and improved offspring where everyone go for the next 2 years.
While in a sense true.. on the other hand, it's also false.
If any game that is F2P or whatever decided "we need to stop active development for a year, in order to provide you a better/new game after that period" (servers would still be up of course), the question you would ask yourself is this... would that game survive?
In the case of MWO, the answer is
NO.
There are many games... including F2P games that can last such a transition. Even a game as popular as Counterstrike (classic) has survived that.. sure it won't have the playerbase than its more popular/updated version, but there would be people and a community to keep things alive... however faint that may be.
For this game, you would literally see people disappear.. and while it won't be the majority... just understand that this game for many of its veterans plays very much the same ultimately as it did back in Beta and having an already crippled CW that still has yet to have actual information (why this has escaped the more recent town halls is amazing to me) and by the time we'll get it like we did Domination... I'm not sure you can continue to give PGI the benefit of the doubt when it took literally a year after UI 2.0 to acknowledge the mechlab needed to stop being complete garbage.
Ironically, you mentioned Path of Exile in your example... and when I don't play MWO.. I play it almost religiously (and it's not even my main game, which MWO happens to be). If the devs doing POE decided to do what I was proposing (1 year of no updates for an engine upgrade)... while I wouldn't be playing at the same rate (because it's all about the leagues), I would have no problem amusing myself playing in the base game, knowing that there will be no further content. The game would still be "complete" despite having obvious missing lore elements/conclusions, but the game is fully functional... and wouldn't be considered "a beta" like MWO would be to many people still playing it. People would still be throwing money at it.
I don't see people throwing money at this game even if you trusted PGI or guaranteed that after a year that a "miracle engine update" would somehow save this game while little to no progress of existing content (like actually
improving gamemodes and CW) would even keep this sieve operational. It's unrealistic an expectation.
There's so much to fix in this game that goes beyond the obvious gripes... that expecting greatness when consistent mediocrity is provided in return is lunacy.
Edited by Deathlike, 18 March 2016 - 03:55 PM.