As someone that has returned (I played in beta, lost interest, came back) I can say why I consider quitting (again).
Because it is frustrating. And a lot of it has to do with the skill system. (Long rant)
I am probably an average player. Nothing wrong with that. We cannot all be Rambo. I like to solo play, because I never know for how long I want to play. I might play a couple matches, I might play 5.
I tried out Trial Mechs until I found one I liked (Raven) and then bought one and started playing. This is Tier 5. And I have atrocious kill numbers, low damage, die without understanding why. And I am getting frustrated. So I read up. I check for better builds. Tweak my Mech until I feel comfortable with him. And I get better. I think I get something like 30% wins, 70% losses. I earn exp, and skill the Mech up. And once it was fully skilled up, something shifted. All of a sudden I start winning way more than before. I wonder whether I suddenly "got" the game.
Either way, I am up for something new. I buy a Griffin. And I have bad kill numbers. Low damage. I die quickly. I get frustrated. I do not research, because I did that before buying a Griffin. But skill point by skill point by performance gets better. In the end, I reach the point (now in Tier4) where I am often one of the top 2 damage dealers on my side. I am disappointed if I do below 400 damage. Most matches are 400-700, 800 come up regularly, best I have done is 1350.
So I look for something new to try. I buy a Warhammer. Rinse, repeat. I am currently frustrated no end because I am trying to earn Skillpoints while doing half the damage I was doing in my Griffin. I am trying to train up the Warhammer to get to a point where I am competetive. The effect of these skills is way to powerful to compensate. Every Mech I ever skilled up so far ended up doing 2-3 times as much damage as I was doing at day 1. Sure, some of that probably comes from better knowing your Mech and/or being better able to judge what you can or cannot do. But the skills add way too much. And it takes way too long in a frustrating gameplay to get those skills up there. Right now I play until I am sick of the game, which is often 2-3 matches.
Always trying to play catch up to everybody else is getting annoying. And doing that with every single new Mech you buy does not make buying new Mechs very attractive.
Other things that annoy me is how often people (apparently mostly my team) go linkdead / get disconnected during matches. I actually did 9 or 10 matches today, over 4 sessions and I had 2 matches where we did not lose a player before we started.
***EDIT: And all that becomes exponential when trying out faction warfare. I bought the Warhammer, because I could not try out faction warfare without it. My Mechs were too light. And if I have this many problems in normal gameplay, I sure do not want to try out faction warfare, which is even more unforgiving and even more of a grind.***
Edited by Darakor Stormwind, 17 March 2018 - 08:31 AM.