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[Alstren]

Sure the historical xp is a nice boost but its a boost that will only help old players, new players are still going to get stuck using unskilled mechs, mainly because after spending nothing but gxp on a grand total of 8 mechs, its telling that Iv already burned through HALF of the massive amount were given on the PTS client. I honestly don't see new players being willing/able to grind this hard to make their mechs decent especially when there actively being punished in game for not having mastered their mechs. If the costs are still this high once the trees hit the live servers I don't see many new players staying for long before getting frustrated and dropping the game.


As for my personal opinion on the matter grinding is never fun in any game (except for masochistic psychopaths) the whole point of a game is to have fun not to take up a second job I get that you make money on premium time but if you make it absolutely nessasary inorder to master a mech most people are just going to stop playing.

Further more in the future can we not have long events during PTS sessions? Its hard enough to convince people to play the PTS already without them being further incentivised to play the live server instead. Seriously the PTS sever is a ghost town right now there is a grand total of 2-4 people on it.

Edited by FirestormClone218, 13 February 2017 - 04:33 PM.

[NextGame]

I am literally done with this game if the XP costs stay as they are. I have 352 mechs, the vast majority of which are currently mastered; and I am absolutely not sitting and basically grinding out what looks like double their current XP to keep them levelled.

[DGTLDaemon]

NextGame, on 14 February 2017 - 12:31 AM, said:

I am literally done with this game if the XP costs stay as they are. I have 352 mechs, the vast majority of which are currently mastered; and I am absolutely not sitting and basically grinding out what looks like double their current XP to keep them levelled.

It's more than double - closer to 2.5 times. I'm in the same boat as you: 41 mechs, all mastered, but only a handful with enough extra XP to master them under the new system. If the XP cost stays the same, I'd have to literally quit my job and spend the next few months doing nothing but grinding to bring all my mechs back to mastery level. And obviously that's not gonna happen... I really hope that PGI will see reason and reduce the amount of grind required, otherwise it's gonna be the end of MWO for me

Edited by DGTLDaemon, 14 February 2017 - 02:46 AM.