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[No Skill Rush]

Really dumb idea pgi.

[Juju Shinobi]

Ah yes, good old PGI forcing everyone to participate in their all-inning of Solaris by shutting down Farming Warfare. This can only end so well

[Deathlike]

Russ is so ahead of the curve. Remember the Long Tom and how he thought it should be kept in despite the overwhelming disdain for it? Man, those were good times! He was totally listening to us.

Edited by Deathlike, 02 March 2018 - 10:45 PM.

[TheCallandor]

Is Solaris 7 really going to draw that many people back to the game? Most of us want mass of amounts of Big Stompy robots running around smashing... and of course playing with our friends... I don't see Solaris being much fun as there are going to be way to many one sided battles, especially for new player/s that our matched up against more experienced ones. I am so glad that I have stopped supporting Russ's drinking habit by not buying any of the new mech packages that have come out.. They can waist time on designing a new mech but can barely keep up with making changes to the game that the community wants.

[Khobai]

I fully support PGI in their endeavor to make people cry flammable tears and burn their own game to the ground.

[Bonfor]

Here I was going to buy the S7 mechpack just for the MDD to use in FP...scratch that now!

[Fake News]

if evil is forced into playing solaris 7 mode without the outlet of fp, i can only see one course of action going forward.

[Davegt27]

I kept telling you guys don't complain you will only make things worse

old ANG proverb

[whatthecrapisthis]

Would you like a mech pak ?

[Yondu Udonta]

Are you ******* serious you don't need to ******* close FP such that people play Solaris, if your ******* content is good enough people will play Solaris naturally. Why the **** do you want to deprive people of choices?

[Bowelhacker]

What's Russ' twitter name?

[TWIAFU]

Hobbles v, on 02 March 2018 - 08:29 PM, said:

Id be okay with a short shutdown if it was for an fp update. But litterally its just for the solarus launch a bs reason. Shut down the alternatives to give a false amount of player interest in the new mode.

F that

I could understand a weekend PAUSE (shutdown is BAD word choice!!!) of CW for Craparis, but longer then that, dumb plan.

[xX PUG Xx]

Bowelhacker, on 03 March 2018 - 03:01 AM, said:

What's Russ' twitter name?

@Russ_Bullock

[SilentFenris]

Hobbles v, on 02 March 2018 - 07:58 PM, said:

The tldr is basically shut down the alternatives so people flood the mode.

PGI has rarely shown a way to think things through. Both PGI and a large amount of the player-base claim that Faction Play (Community Warfare) is a dead gamemode. So if it is dead, why would shutting it down for a week/month/year have any change on whether the Solaris release is successful or not?

Likewise, the "spiltting of the player-base" is constantly brought up as an excuse for not doing X, Y or Z.... The development/ release of Mechwarrior 5 will be the biggest split PGI has ever seen in their player-base. I enjoy playing against thinking humans, but I have a feeling a significant number of players will never be seen in MWO after MW5's release.

Just two thoughts from a casual player....

[Slowth]

There are units in built 100% around FW. Shutting it down will ensure there are less people playing than ever before.
This is "nearly" the stupidist thing PGI could possibly do. I Say "nearly" because Im sure they'll try a "hold my beer" moment after reading this.

Edited by Slowth, 03 March 2018 - 04:37 AM.

[Hobbles v]

SilentFenris, on 03 March 2018 - 04:18 AM, said:

PGI has rarely shown a way to think things through. Both PGI and a large amount of the player-base claim that Faction Play (Community Warfare) is a dead gamemode. So if it is dead, why would shutting it down for a week/month/year have any change on whether the Solaris release is successful or not?

Likewise, the "spiltting of the player-base" is constantly brought up as an excuse for not doing X, Y or Z.... The development/ release of Mechwarrior 5 will be the biggest split PGI has ever seen in their player-base. I enjoy playing against thinking humans, but I have a feeling a significant number of players will never be seen in MWO after MW5's release.

Just two thoughts from a casual player....

Mwo will likely die after mw5 is released. However two things could make for good replacements. Multiplayer added to mw5 or converting mwo to. Unreal engine/ making an mwo2. I actually feel this will be thier big development announcment for mech con thos year.

Also the FP commuity may be small relative to the number of people who play qp only. But i guarantee they play more on averge and log in more regularly.

Solarus will undoubtedly be a fun little distraction. But thats something i would do just to warm up or kill time while i wait for my team to finish thier match in fp. Dropping with my friends and building my unit has kept me here longer than any gameplay feature, cut that for a couple weeks and id likely just log in to play 1 or 2 solarus matches and then go do something else most day.

However instead i think ill boycott it until fp is back up.

[Marquis De Lafayette]

Didn’t Russ say “2-4 weeks” of shutdown? So if he goes through with this we would have to hope they keep it at 2. Sounded like they are worried matches won’t get made in FW...But man. this might be the most infuriating thing I have heard out of PGI so far. Even when they were initially refusing to remove Long Tom, we still had the mode to play.

[Arcanoz]

when someone speaks while so fkin drunk...there s no hope guys..be honest. this game....mhhh...R.I.P.

Edited by Arcanoz, 03 March 2018 - 04:43 AM.

[DevlinCognito]

I guess this shows FP is proper end game content.

[Lances107]

I was hoping for good news. Really stupid idea to shut down faction play for solaris. Even more stupid in thinking changing the contract set up at all will bring interest back to faction play for a month? Really? Do you think most fp players give a f**** about contracts right now? Being wasted too that was really bright.... The loyalist on clan side get nothing again.