Posted 27 October 2017 - 04:40 AM
I don't play actively much anymore, I just lurk and come back for events that strike my interest and while this is one, I do have to point out one major negative.
FP is cancer for many of us, always has been, always will be with this dev team and the way they've been trying to shoehorn it into the game. Locking what used to be an attainable prize- the grand prize, behind FP is a pretty awful idea. Most grab bag prizes will always be crap, as it's just RNG, so the main thing people like me would play for would be the grand prize. However, having to play 50+ matches of FP in a 10 day event, on top of the 100 QP matches? That's a massive time sink spent playing a mode that many of us hate with the passion of a thousand suns.
How can PGI be so poor at designing events at this late juncture? The same complaints come up for years, yet they keep doing the same old thing, over and over, like they're trying to force players to enjoy something they never will. Do what you will with your other events, I've noticed they've been mostly FP lately, and it's kept me from wanting to bother playing or spend money pretty consistently, so congrats there, but leave the holiday events as they used to be- a fun excuse to get on MWO and earn free stuff based on performance.
Points for trying, I guess? Maybe someday someone at PGI will get something totally right, and my mind will simply explode.