Asym, on 30 November 2017 - 07:36 AM, said:
Again, the player base is less than a 1,000 people at anyone time.... Days without being able to even find FP matches..... Long waits for QP. Virtually no one in off periods unless there is another everyday event.
Right now it is 1 PM on the US East Coast. It is NOT peak hours. There is no significant event at the moment. Steam lists 735 players in game. That only counts the players using steam, not the players using the stand alone client. It is very possible that total users online is over 1000, and the number on Steam will likely jump over 1k itself within 5 or 6 hours when peak hours hit North America. At Tier 2, match making in solo QP isn't long (I had several instances of insta-queueing during my stream this morning). So, your comments about player population are, once again, demonstrably false. Get your damned facts straight.
As for wait times in FW, it is poorly populated due to lack of interest (partially due to dissatisfaction with it's state of design, mostly due to the fact that even if it was in a good place most of the player base doesn't care about it). Wait times in group quickplay is due to the matchmaker having to shuffle around groups of various sizes and tier ranks to try to put together something that resembles a balanced match.
Your complaint about the game "de-evolved" into a FPS... Well, let's look at the past without the rose-tinted glasses. Once people finished the solo campaign on previous MW titles, what happened? I'll tell you what happened. People played it either online or in LAN parties as a FPS! Amazing, right? In fact, most of the play value from every FPS today is in multiplayer online, not story/campaign mode. You are complaining about PGI making a game that caters to the way people play games. No one says you have to be happy with it, but you are blissfully ignoring reality here.
The rest of your rant... Is a bizarre jumble of words that almost can be parsed into something that resembles thoughts... Almost.
Edited by Escef, 30 November 2017 - 10:22 AM.