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Koniving, on 26 January 2019 - 02:30 PM, said:
Long and short, "Gold mechs" are just like the normal Invasion mechs. Initially the 500 was just for the mech, but then the entire invasion pack was thrown into the mix (so you got the 270 dollar mechpack for 8, well 9 chassis including the Mad Dog bonus fo getting both Invasion 1 and Invasion 2, plus your gold mech at 330..)
It was a big "Collector's" fund raiser, which PGI has since said it was Infinite Games Publishing's idea, where they were using the funds to create two other mech titles, Mechwarrior Tactics (which was decent, but already getting brokenly pay to win with some of the cards, I actually liked the actual combat better than HBS's Battletech, due to the turns being played out simultaneously, and attack calls coming before movement [though having the choice to choose before or after would be nice]) and some top down arcade like mech shooter that visually looked good, but in terms of gameplay looked like it could have been done on the Sega Genesis or windows 95. Think Mech Assault but you twist whichever way you have the mouse pointed. Those were crushed, when not long after IGP was given the boot, for better or worse, and from there a long stagnation in development quickly turned around.
It has since stagnated again, but for the understandable reason of MW5: Mercs as opposed to being siphoned to death.
We may poke fun at those that bought gold mechs, but they did so either for the novelty or for the sensation of supporting the game...even though a sizeable chunk went on to 'support' two other titles that never made it to the light of day where the assets were sold off to the highest bidder...which if memory serves... was bought up for less than that of a gold mech (or was it less than two?)
Me, I'm friendly towards gold mechs, though if its on the other team, well during the founder event I waved to one...and then tried to kill it (someone else got the kill).
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Unrelated, but, since we're talking about publishers siphoning money...
So any aspiring game developers, do your research into a publisher before signing the dotted line.
and that thing with Eximius is pretty much precisely why PGI turfed IGP.
