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[cazidin]

Greetings MechWarriors. Today I have a simple question. If PGI were to announce tomorrow their plans to develop a new IP and expand their team, how would you react and would it take away time and resources from MW:O?

[FupDup]

It would ignite another forum dumpster fire, just like it did last time.

Since PGI has limited resources, at least from what we've been told, there is no way that it wouldn't take resources from MWO.

PGI would have to be hiding secret resources that they never told us they had, in which case I would wonder why they didn't use these resources on MWO...

[Hunka Junk]

cazidin, on 07 October 2016 - 09:26 AM, said:

Greetings MechWarriors. Today I have a simple question. If PGI were to announce tomorrow their plans to develop a new IP and expand their team, how would you react and would it take away time and resources from MW:O?

IF or WHEN?

[Ryokens leap]

They had enough resources to overhaul their office lobby/ lounge and the nerve to show it off to the community.

Edited by Ryokens leap, 07 October 2016 - 09:31 AM.

[Mole]

Am I the only one that can't help but feel 80% of the money that PGI makes off of this game doesn't even go back into the company or the game and gets blown at a casino or something?

[cazidin]

FupDup, on 07 October 2016 - 09:28 AM, said:

It would ignite another forum dumpster fire, just like it did last time.

Since PGI has limited resources, at least from what we've been told, there is no way that it wouldn't take resources from MWO.

PGI would have to be hiding secret resources that they never told us they had, in which case I would wonder why they didn't use these resources on MWO...

Maybe PGI IS hiding secret resources, like Comstar?

Hunka Junk, on 07 October 2016 - 09:30 AM, said:

IF or WHEN?

It is never a question of if, merely of when - probably when people stop buying Mechpacks.

Ryokens leap, on 07 October 2016 - 09:30 AM, said:

They had enough resources to overhaul their office lobby/ lounge and the nerve to show it off to the community.

I didn't like the colors.

Mole, on 07 October 2016 - 09:33 AM, said:

Am I the only one that can't help but feel 80% of the money that PGI makes off of this game doesn't even go back into the company or the game and gets blown at a casino or something?

How Russ and Paul spend their money is not our concern.

[Bud Crue]

Whatever. I am awash in contradictory emotions regarding this game. I came to it only because of the BattleTech IP and despite the game having little to do with that IP I have come to enjoy the basic game play. I hope that someday it will be more immersive in BT but I know in my heart of hearts that PGI could care less. Thus, what PGI does as a business does not concern me in the least, yet at the same time I would of course like this property to be further developed. But since I know any further attention that they pay to it just means more mech packs, so why would I care if they actually paid that attention?


Ah, the fickleness of customers. I want what PGI has no interest in giving, yet irrationally keep hoping that they will. Perhaps if they publicly stated that the game was no longer their emphasis it would be enough to break me of that irrationality and I would then just move on...to HBS's BattleTech, with the rest of the BT nerds.

[JediPanther]

PGI would not survive another Transverse-disaster. As much as I wanted to support HBS' kick starter and other incentive programs for Battletech I refuse to do so due to it indirectly giving pgi funds as they must be taking some form of payment for their mech assets.

When pgi puts out a new is light mech then I will spend money on pgi. Their record of failures, lack of communication and feedback, and poor design decisions such as long tom, mini map disaster,insulting the player base with comments like "on an island," "we know what we are doing and don't need feedback." etc Don't get me started on all the time wasted with their "soon" and "90 days"

i'm willing to bet that income from HBS' use of their art assets is making a decent amount of their current operating and profits. After all sooner or later they will just have to invent all new mechs for mech packs and since they already make up their own mechs for heroes and champions that doesn't seem implausible.

[Bombast]

I would laugh. Hysterically. Because the only other option is to cry when it comes to the absurd.

[Bud Crue]

JediPanther, on 07 October 2016 - 09:38 AM, said:

i'm willing to bet that income from HBS' use of their art assets is making a decent amount of their current operating and profits. After all sooner or later they will just have to invent all new mechs for mech packs and since they already make up their own mechs for heroes and champions that doesn't seem implausible.

I've just been assuming that PGI and/or perhaps Russ personally is an unnamed partner with HBS.

Edited by Bud Crue, 07 October 2016 - 09:40 AM.

[RestosIII]

A visual representation of what PGI would be doing to itself if they did that.

[Dread Render]

okay, i'll be the lab rat...
Transverse II:mobile ? wtf is this?
a new IP ? wtf? a new ip address?
What are you IT geeks talking about please?

[Lootee]

Wanna buy a TransFail pack?

[cazidin]

Bombast, on 07 October 2016 - 09:38 AM, said:

I would laugh. Hysterically. Because the only other option is to cry when it comes to the absurd.

Why not both?

RestosIII, on 07 October 2016 - 09:41 AM, said:

A visual representation of what PGI would be doing to itself if they did that.

That dumpster needs more fire!

[Bishop Steiner]

FupDup, on 07 October 2016 - 09:28 AM, said:

It would ignite another forum dumpster fire, just like it did last time.

Since PGI has limited resources, at least from what we've been told, there is no way that it wouldn't take resources from MWO.

PGI would have to be hiding secret resources that they never told us they had, in which case I would wonder why they didn't use these resources on MWO...

Because PGI thinks they are Comstar?

We KNOW they are using resources elsewhere... where do you think Bryan is, and what do you think he is doing?

[cazidin]

Bishop Steiner, on 07 October 2016 - 09:52 AM, said:

Because PGI thinks they are Comstar?

We KNOW they are using resources elsewhere... where do you think Bryan is, and what do you think he is doing?

Dangit, Bishop. You stole my joke and substitute it with your own clever spin.

[Bombast]

Dread Render, on 07 October 2016 - 09:42 AM, said:

okay, i'll be the lab rat...
Transverse II:mobile ? wtf is this?
a new IP ? wtf? a new ip address?
What are you IT geeks talking about please?

IP - Intellectual Property (A made up 'universe,' like Star Wars, or the Marvel Universe)

Transverse - A previous new IP PGI tried to make before everyone made them stop

[Big Tin Man]

I thought the bulk of the Transverse dumpster fire was due to PGI's assertions that they had a wildly successful crowdsource campaign for MWO and wanted the community to get behind them to do that. That's when the community told them how the crowdfunding campaign really went and set the world ablaze.

PGI has soiled any confidence the community has in backing a new game due to their performance here, so the crowdsourcing route of game development is out. If PGI is building a new game/IP off of profits of MWO, that's their business decision. They only have a couple options to get new revenue: develop/license a new IP, further milk MWO, expand on the existing mechwarrior license, or work as a partner/subcontract on other games/ports. And of these options, the MWO cash cow is starting to thin out. PGI needs to do something to create new business before the old business dries up. That's just business.

[N a p e s]

Bishop Steiner, on 07 October 2016 - 09:52 AM, said:

Because PGI thinks they are Comstar?

We KNOW they are using resources elsewhere... where do you think Bryan is, and what do you think he is doing?

Bryan made off to some secluded area of the office with the best PGI programmers and equipment. He's also started cloning facilities to create smarter and better programmers than what PGI has ever seen. He'll come back in the future and claim PGI for his Clan so that it can become a great development studio!

[SilentWolff]

Nothing PGI does surprises me at this point, unless it was actually doing something right.