MeiSooHaityu, on 18 July 2016 - 08:27 AM, said:
I don't outwardly attack PGI or insult the Devs. If you are looking for a target, I think you could have picked somone better. I may be critical from time to time, but isn't that what you view as being a good player? Critical and subjective.
I spent many hours, long before this degenerative state to state my case, and point out flaws through constructive criticism. What have I achieved? Absolutely nothing (relatively speaking).
While I don't have to do all the wonderful shenanigans, it truly doesn't make a difference how I convey those points... only to be ignored. That's fine. It's not going to be my problem ultimately, because it doesn't take much to stop caring about the game.
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Besides, I don't owe you or anyone an explanation of why I feel the way I do. That's just how I feel. If you feel different, good run with that. Keep fighting the good fight. But I'll be honest with you... Blaming other players isn't the way to go anyway. If people do start to feel the way you dislike so much, there are probably deeper issues that need to be looked at. The players are reactionary, and not the cause for issues.
People will do things relative to what they perceive. Whether it is right or wrong... I'm sure that's a different message altogether. It's not for me to convince you or others to spend or not spend on the game, rather it's to point out a constant that comes with PGI and decision making.
If certain bad decisions from PGI happened for the first time in a while, it's not usually worth diving into... until a track record is developed. When a certain frequency of bad decisions increases, eventually it'll have the players attention more... causing them to evaluate and reevaluate what the game means to them.
It's not a random event where people are speaking their minds - more notably the people that don't normally post. It's not like there's an outside effort driving these people to post - when poop hits the fan, it hits hard and often when it's not rectified.
Even in games where there is a certain level of monotony that you hit, sometimes there isn't a reason to say anything. I've played Path of Exile for a year, and I've not made a single post on the forums. Yes, this arse of ForumWarrior has not posted a lick. There's plenty of ebbs and flows in a game's lifetime. The difference between that game and MWO - the water here is stagnant, with a hint of sewage and no plans to clean up the mess.
I don't blame the players for thinking what they think (outside of the ones that aren't quite all there). Human reaction starts from the environment they are put in. The forums and community are a reflection of that. While I SHOULD be excited from the "2 second mechlab save time", I'm not. These are things long complained about... a QOL issue that should have been addressed around the Clan release outset (when the save times were at an all time high at that moment). We've all come to write that off as a "feature"... it's because many of us didn't expect it to change ASAP in this game's lifetime. Things like that should never have been taken for granted, but somehow we're going to praise that feature? That's insane. It's like trying to praise a parent for doing the right thing... except that "you supposed to be a good parent" should be a thing anyways?
I dunno... what I'm saying is not on you specifically - it's more of a constant battle between PGI's indifference to their players vs the players indifference to that.
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. Some of the more vocal people tend to be negative for the sake of getting likes and not because they actually want to improve anything.
