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[Imperius]

I'll say "Whale" is anyone who has spent over $1000 on this game so far.

Are you still buying things why or why not?

[Darian DelFord]

Nope

[CtrlAltWheee]

I bought the Cyclops.

Sometimes I go weeks without playing, then I admit that it's more fun than 99% of other games.

[Navid A1]

[DAYLEET]

My last pack was R2, i got it for the 36 colours and the Mauler AFTER the mech were released for Cbills except the last one i dont remember which one it was. I dont really plan on spending any more, i have enough, i hate preorder waiting time and i hate the limited pay wall time others have to wait, how some are left op for the duration of that paywall.

The Roc look exceedingly good and would have been a purchase before but i dont buy on looks only anymore. I found that waiting after a mech is released to see it live kills the hype and the "i must own it" reflex i had before. The Archer would have been a purchase too before, now im not even spending cbills for them.

Even though i dont like the preorder, the hype, the waiting, the paywall opness, the reason i dont spend is because i spend as much time deciding which mech ill play tonight than play it. I Try to play a different one every night and adding more on top really doesnt seem like a good option anymore and i only own 144. Why would i want more :/ i also dread the day where we will move the timeline and all of those mech possibly become obsolete for a year if not ever.

Im not ashamed to admit i often bought new variant of a chassis i own(with CBILLS though) just because i want a different Pattern Camo(MC spent) but having the same Pattern/Camo for years got old apparently. Releasing the special pattern of R2 would likely get me to buy camo for mc's on new mech i would pay with cbills as well i just plain new pattern.

Edited by DAYLEET, 07 July 2016 - 08:31 PM.

[Papaspud]

Wallet is closed for the foreseeable future, the game just isn't keeping my interest. It has been a good 4 year run, soI can't complain.

[Karl Marlow]

I've been buying the inner sphere mech regularly and occasionally a clan mech. After this last FP challenge excluded my house I've lost a lot of my already waning interest in the game. I've been giving serious thought to refunding the Cyclops but I haven't yet. At this point they could release the Axman and I don't think I would buy it. Heck I preordered the grizzly and the Phoenix hawk and have yet to play them. I don't even think I've logged on to claim my Phoenix hawks yet.

[Felbombling]

I'm 4/10 of a whale, I'd guess, by your definition. I am at the point now where I can stop spending, because the Mech Lab allows me to reproduce just about any new Mech coming down the pipe. Thanks must go to PGI, who have bent over backwards trying to appease the players who love customization... and as a direct result have created a situation where they've made new content irrelevant.

Now, had they been more thoughtful with the quirk system, they could have kept Mechs in certain roles, best suited to their stock weapon systems. Sadly, they did not do this... but there is still time to adjust things after the recent re-scaling. Were they to figure out how to make a Summoner Prime good with the ER PPC, LRM 15 and LB 10-X, for example, it might create a greater need to make future purchases.

[Karl Streiger]

Have bought PHX and Cyclops but stopped right there.
Wouldn't buy anything else.
And yes this is a whale >$1200 - so the sum alone keeps me here until the servers go down.

In some moments I wished never to recovered after my first breakdown.
But it was a Thunderbolt - (with a real arm laser no stubby lego pocket light)

Edited by Karl Streiger, 07 July 2016 - 10:20 PM.

[CycKath]

Top tier and full add-ons for every Inner Sphere pack released to date and will keep buying every Inner Sphere pack. I play maybe an hour or two a night in quick play if I'm lucky. I don't have expectations that the game will be anything more than it is, and don't play enough that it feels stale, so have no objection to coughing up to play the 'Mechs I like.

While I'll be sad to see MWO go, and the loss of money spent painful its not that big a deal and is not the be all end all of my BattleTech fandom. I've probably spent double the amount I've put into MWO in table-top books and PDFs in the same time-frame.

[Revis Volek]

Navid A1, on 07 July 2016 - 08:13 PM, said:

HAHA! Great



I did get a $20 dollar Night Gyr though....

Edited by Revis Volek, 07 July 2016 - 09:32 PM.

[Cabusha]

Yep, total whale here.

Founders Hunch
Project Phoenix + Booster for Grif and Wolverine
Resistance 1
Resistance 2
Clan Wave 1 - Daishi Collection + Timber & Warhawk Alacarte (post-release)
Clan Wave 3
Urbanmech Collection
MAD + S + Hero
WHM + S + Hero
Kodiak + Hero variant
Origins

Then a few MC purchases over the years during black friday, to pick up various heroes when they were half off. IIRC:

Boar's Head
La Manche
Heavy Metal
Ilya
Firebrand
Fang/Flame
IV-Four
Sparky
Yen-Lo-Wang (my first hero purchase, and still a fav)
Arrow
Ember

***************

And no, I'm not spending anymore. The last pack I picked up was the Kodiak when its preorder first went up. I haven't even played the things yet.

Honestly, once the marauder was in game and I found my "groove" with it, it kind of felt like I'd beaten the game. "That's it, nothing more to see here."

[patataman]

$400 in 4 years. Is that a tuna?

I still make a few purchases now and then if i see content released, or if i like the mech a lot, last ones being the Urbie (top tier), Marauder (top tier), and lately the Cyclops ($20 minimally viable purchase tier atm, maybe with hero addon later).

[Dino Might]

Can't say I'm a whale by that definition, but I have spent more on this game than any other to-date.
My last pack was Clan Wave 3. After that, there weren't many more nostalgia mechs for me, and the gameplay has been rather stagnant for quite some time. I hit my peak of competition on the little engine that could Locust, and stopped playing even that after some 2M mech XP - that was about 6 months ago.

Each major change has, to me, not been the earth shattering revamp that was expected/feared. The control scheme and game mechanics remain simple (not bad, mind you), and I just got tired of the arcade-style play.

I now will only play with friends as a social experience. I have not dropped solo in a long time, and will probably never do so again. There's just not enough new and interesting to do in this game to satisfy me.

If any of this sounds like a condemnation, it's not. MWO was/is a good game. It's just that I've played it for the better part of 3 years. Without more to it than 5 keyboard keys and three mouse buttons, I can't fixate on it any longer.

With that, DCS has taken my attention for its glorious complex simulation aspects. Each plane is a completely different experience and takes days to learn, months to master. When I get bored of one, I start learning another. I have a mission editor to mockup whatever scenario my heart desires. I can jump in instant action, or play involved campaigns. I can fly all around my sandbox, or I can jump in someone else's and fly with/against them. I've spent slightly less on DCS modules, but far surpassed total expense as compared what I spent on MWO by buying HOTAS, projector, TrackIR, and rudder pedals, just for this sim.

If MWO expanded the complexity of the game mechanics (dynamic COF, piloting skill to prevent falling, balanced modules with pros and cons), developed a user-driven mission editor / custom game tools, and made CW something other than lane control madness, I'd probably jump back into this game with reckless abandon. I don't think these are necessary changes for this game to continue its success, so I am not expecting any kind of campaign for such to bear fruit... hence my full attention on DCS, now.

Edited by Dino Might, 07 July 2016 - 09:45 PM.

[627]

I counted some month ago what I invested and ended somewhere around 750 Eur, so that's about 900 Dollar or so. So not sure if it counts or not but after that I decided I spent enough on this game and I'll use the MC and Stuff I already have before I buy something new.

And to be true, I'm at a point where I have enough mechs and I'm at a spot where the "new" mechs are available for cBills before I'm done mastering the last batch of mechs, so there's no need to spend real money. At least not for mechs.

[Death Proof]

I've spent an amount that equates to about $20 a month (maybe more) for the last few years...which is in line with my expectations of what an online multiplayer game should cost (i.e. about $10-$30/mo).

I've got my money's worth so far.

[KODIAK-AU]

I recently cancelled my Viper pre order, I have probably spent upwards of $2000.00 AUD on this game.

So yes I have stopped spending for now, it will take something special for me to open my wallet for this game again.

I still play this game daily and still love it, I can't justify spending anymore when I have all I need to be competitive.

[Thorn Hallis]

Still spending money from time to time.

[NeoCodex]

I'm done too. Best era for me was around the clan release, when the regular game mode was still somewhat interesting and clans really freshened up the experience, was an on full whale mode since then. Kodiak was the last thing I really wanted and got it. I'd still succumb to the upgraded Mad Cat and Marauder, but everything else is dead to me, have enough mech's and cbills now. Every new chassis that comes is "meh" and already does the same as most of my other mechs so I can easily skip everything. And in all this time, the content delivered was too little, too late and too slow so even if I want to buy new stuff for cbills it's too boring to even bother playing.

This game needs.. something. A time jump, and Solaris. I'll probably be back when that happens. Almost everything has the same build and adding 50 more new mech's won't solve anything. We need more options, things got OLD. Add some freaking new weapons and equipment to spice it up. **** the balance, they never got it right anyway.
We want new stuff.

Edited by NeoCodex, 07 July 2016 - 11:28 PM.

[B O O M E R]

Navid A1, on 07 July 2016 - 08:13 PM, said:

So good, its now my Signature.