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[ApexSun]

Well, I guess we keep up the tweets. I might have to start an account instead of using my tween daughter's account.

[FallingAce]

r4zen, on 03 March 2018 - 12:14 PM, said:

Well, I mean, I know there's a bunch of you out there that play Faction Play, um, almost exclusively. And ... I hope you'll believe me when I say I ... It's a, it's a feature set that's very, um, important and significant to us.

But, we certainly haven't given up.

And the only thing that's stalling us at the moment is, you have a very important feature called Solaris that's coming out, that comes out in April, and ... It's almost certain that we're going to be supporting that feature for a couple months post-release, May and June let's call it, it's important to determine specifically. But we have not given up on giving significant time to, uh, faction play moving forward.

Compare to PGI statements on Dec 9, 2016 link

"We've chosen to call this update Faction Play Phase 4.1, both to signal the start of a new development phase and to stress that this is only the first of future updates and improvements planned for Faction Play as we renew its focus in 2017."

No faction play focus development for at least the 1st six months of 2017 2018.

FallingAce, on 26 August 2017 - 12:13 PM, said:

PGI Food chain

• Mech Con
  
• MW 5
  
• Solaris
  
• World Championship
  
• New Mechs
  
• New Maps
  
• Bolt Ons
  
• IK
  
• Faction Warfare

Faction Warfare: still bottom of the food chain.

[Roland09]

Jonathan8883, on 03 March 2018 - 02:55 PM, said:

I don't see anything saying "Faction play will shut down." I see them saying "We aren't going to run any Faction Play Events for a couple of months because we'll be busy with Solaris and don't want to do a bad Event."

I think you are mistaken here; Rust Bollocks drunkenly maunders about 2 - 4 weeks during which there is no 'conflict', this pretty much exactly means shutting down FP. Remember the pause in "regular" CW while the Luthien / Tukkayid / Tharkad events where on? That was a similar pause in the general conflict.

[A Headless Chicken]

Hi guys, I run a restaurant where I usually sell noodles and rice. The rice always sells fast, and the noodles have a small but dedicated customer base. Now I want to introduce fish and chips to the menu and for a short while when I make fish and chips, I will stop cooking noodles, too bad for that customer base.

Sounds familiar?

[justcallme A S H]

LOL.

I can relate to that...

[Terrorsdawn]

A Headless Chicken, on 04 March 2018 - 05:19 PM, said:

Hi guys, I run a restaurant where I usually sell noodles and rice. The rice always sells fast, and the noodles have a small but dedicated customer base. Now I want to introduce fish and chips to the menu and for a short while when I make fish and chips, I will stop cooking noodles, too bad for that customer base.

Sounds familiar?

HHMMMMMMMMMM NOOOOODLLLLLLEEESSSSS!

Don't take away my dam noodles you heartless *******!

[Crockdaddy]

I am a bit surprised with all the Battle Royale bandwagon stuff we don't see a new game mode "Planet Solaris" Drop 100 solo Mech-Warriors onto a deserted Island survival of the fittest! Scavenge stuff, find unlockable loot boxes! Or Drop in Squads of 4 for competitive team based fun for this new and innovative game mode!

In fact ... if done right it could be a pretty bomb game mode. Too bad the community cannot create mods or something.

[Terrorsdawn]

Crockdaddy, on 04 March 2018 - 09:38 PM, said:

I am a bit surprised with all the Battle Royale bandwagon stuff we don't see a new game mode "Planet Solaris" Drop 100 solo Mech-Warriors onto a deserted Island survival of the fittest! Scavenge stuff, find unlockable loot boxes! Or Drop in Squads of 4 for competitive team based fun for this new and innovative game mode!

In fact ... if done right it could be a pretty bomb game mode. Too bad the community cannot create mods or something.

MORE WASTED OPPORTUNITIES = MWO

[Peter2k]

Crockdaddy, on 04 March 2018 - 09:38 PM, said:

I am a bit surprised with all the Battle Royale bandwagon stuff we don't see a new game mode "Planet Solaris" Drop 100 solo Mech-Warriors onto a deserted Island survival of the fittest! Scavenge stuff, find unlockable loot boxes! Or Drop in Squads of 4 for competitive team based fun for this new and innovative game mode!

In fact ... if done right it could be a pretty bomb game mode. Too bad the community cannot create mods or something.

Like the engine could handle all those players all at once

Jonathan8883, on 03 March 2018 - 02:55 PM, said:

I don't see anything saying "Faction play will shut down." I see them saying "We aren't going to run any Faction Play Events for a couple of months because we'll be busy with Solaris and don't want to do a bad Event."

Thanks for the transcription confirming that.

Said no conflict

No conflict = no battles

I'd be afraid of them Shutting FP down and a few months later saying the numbers show FP isnt needed as players are still playing the game and there is just no way to live up to the expectations anyway
Or something something marketing speak along those lines

Edited by Peter2k, 05 March 2018 - 05:23 PM.

[Groutknoll]

A Headless Chicken, on 04 March 2018 - 05:19 PM, said:

Hi guys, I run a restaurant where I usually sell noodles and rice. The rice always sells fast, and the noodles have a small but dedicated customer base. Now I want to introduce fish and chips to the menu and for a short while when I make fish and chips, I will stop cooking noodles, too bad for that customer base.

Sounds familiar?

But where is the transverse part of this rice, noodles, and fish n chips analogy ?

[Doc Arachinus]

to be honest the in game video from the cockpit of the mech has me disappointed in mw5. though maybe its just me.

[FallingAce]

Once upon a time there were 10 different noodles.

But the noodles were bland. The biggest difference between the noodles was their color and in what part of the restaurant they were served.

The owner decided instead of making each noodle unique and different, he would only have two noodles, but keep the 10 different colors.

Instead, he closed all the seating areas, (the patio, smoking section, the bar, and the balcony overlooking the brown sea) except for one. Forcing every to sit at in the same section of the resteraunt. Many people who liked their favorite seating area left and never came back.

Even adding new noodle colors did not help.

Even though the resteraunt owner failed miserably at noodles, he believes that the customers never really wanted noodles, would be more receptive to the fish and chips instead.

[Knight Captain Morgan]

So they think faction play will take a hit when Solaris releases. I think all modes will take a hit when harebrained schemes' battletech releases.

Both release in April...

[LordNothing]

Cataphractos, on 03 March 2018 - 05:21 PM, said:

So I'm not concerned with all the "ums" and "uhs" -- that's just how people talk, and that's what you're going to see in a word-for-word transcription. What I'm concerned about is:



Any company with over two-dozen employees is not a "small company" by any standard...except maybe for getting certain tax credits and government grants. And it certainly doesn't count as a "small company" in the gaming industry. So if you can't get the job done with 70 freakin' people, it's not because you don't have sufficient manpower. It's because of poor management. I don't know exactly what kind of poor management is going on here, though it sounds an awful lot like PGI hit its Peter Principle limits when it decided to tackle this MW5 project. I've volunteered (briefly) for companies where that happened.

Alternatively, those 70 "employees" are really assorted interns/volunteers/temps/part-timers, equivalent to only 5 or 6 actual workers. That seems kind of scummy for Canadians, but I suppose that kind of toxic Silicon Valley mentality could have stretched its tentacles into the Great White North. "Yeah, let's cut our labor costs by not having a workforce, this is veeeeerrrry savvy business-ing."

agree. the credits to doom fit on one screen.

[Wulfe09]

Spheroid, on 03 March 2018 - 05:31 PM, said:

Russ has a big drinking problem. That was not a mild buzz, he was at least twice the legal limit. Disgraceful to give an interview in that state.

are you implying that people doing an interview on behalf of their company, should prepare for an interview, have answers ready, or at least have practiced with cue cards, show up for the interview sober and professional?

[Black Ivan]

usually this is called doing business good or professional

[Bud Crue]

I just realized something...

Russ said:
“I think we're gonna make sure that March is a very strong Faction Play event, with these new, um, reduced, um, barriers around contracts and so on and so forth.”

So then, lucky charms is the “very strong faction play event”? Uh. Some loot boxes and 10K extra cbills playing as certain factions make for a “very strong faction play event”?

Well then. I for one am now really excited for the next reset and future development of this mode. I am sure the next round of changes will be “very strong” as well.

Edited by Bud Crue, 23 March 2018 - 06:22 AM.

[Terrorsdawn]

Once more PGI is showing us the just don't get it. Welcome to the world of MWO=Most Wasted Opportunities. I'm happy to get a bit of CLAN on CLAN, IS on IS action but as far as getting anything flushed out and meaningful, I guess I'll just have to keep waiting and waiting and waiting ............ Oh look MWLL I'll play that for a bit.