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Maybe the mechpacks would be viable revenue wise if they were worth more? Banked premium instead of active? 20$ getting you 9 cockpit items instead of the collectors pack. Collectors pack coming with a camo instead of just the pre-order and event grind?
Maybe they could make sure the mechs don't suck out loud when they sell them too you 3 months in advance?
I am not buying Mechwarrior 5. There are a lot of reasons but I was thinking about it and this settled it for me.
1. My real life friends and my other brother don't enjoy doing group queue drops with me because we almost always come up against an organized team and get stomped. 2v2 solaris is dead so we can't do that.
2. All the nerfs, so damn many nerfs. Your precious TTK grognards have been ruining this game year after year with their complaints.
A justified nerf? Yes it was a good idea to make it so people couldn't put 6 ERLL on a DWF and melt you in one shot from 800m. Too bad it took you many months to figure that out, long enough to drive off most of the innersphere dedicated players and do enough damage to make even the heaviest nerfs not seem enough to balance clans vs IS. You set a precedent and it sucks out loud.
An unjustified nerf? 4 damage cSPL and a 6.5 damage cMPL and further nerfs to the entire laser family on both the innersphere and clan side. I said when PPFLD stopped reigning supreme that you'd push us into using lasers and guess what? I was freaking right, you can search this forum for me saying that back in 2015.
Justified nerf? Clans getting less dissipation and heat cap when they lose part of their engine.
Unjustified nerf? LFE and cXL overheating if you have heat on you when they get shot off. Making clan mechs without ballistics and easy kill if you aim for a shoulder and they're have anything remotely warm to fight you with.
Justified nerf? Jump jets and jump sniping. BUT WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO IT THE WAY YOU DID IT?! Serious, why could you just add shake to the fall or make the recticle rise as you fell throwing the aim off instead of having perfect aim during a fall? Why did you have to make Jump Jets damn new useless on EVERYTHING.
Unjustified nerfs? Artemis nerfs, spread nerfs, and CD/Heat nerfs to SRMs.
Justified nerfs? Linking PPC to Gauss 5 years too late, but not at 3, at 2 which is awful.
Unjustified nerf? Engine De-sync, we were promised that they'd go through and up the mobility on every mech by hand but they used the DWF as a baseline and EVERYTHING (outside of a select few) lost much needed mobility, which left them vulnerable to laser alphas.
You make this game worse to play and you expect people to give you money?
You set your pre-order for a mech and 3 months later we finally get to play with it but it is hot garbage and we feel cheated. Or its amazing and for 6-9 months it mops the floor against everything else before it comes out for cBills.
Of COURSE this model isn't sustainable.
It only takes one bad purchase for people not to want to pre-order mechs from you.
In discord on the various servers, I used to see new people and they'd ask how long until they could cBill purchase a new mech and I'd say about half a year and they'd leave. No DUH!
Too many mechs are bad. My friend bought $210 dollars in wave 1 120 in wave 2 and 3 and can't stand piloting those mechs. The TBR is bad now, it can't laser like an HBR, it can't ballistic or splat like a EBJ or ONI IIC A respectively and it can't LRM like a MDD. The precedent you set that clans are too powerful has ruined most of the clan mechs, especially the locked equipment omnimechs.
Why can't we hardpoint inflate the bad mechs? Why can't bad mechs good good quirks? Why dies the SDR 5V have to be stuck with 2 hardpoints? Why can't it have 6 now? or at the very least 4? Why can't the 5D have as good of quirks as the non-ecm ones? It can only hold 3 weapons.
The roughneck is the only mech with structure and armor quirks, why is that? Why does the AS7 not have all armor quirks like the ANH? The ANH is much better by far even if slower but it has major armor. Why doesn't the STK have armor quirks?
Why have you done so much to kill brawling? Everything is sluggish, everything dies at mid to long range and everything has such bad spread that splat is only viable when its overwhelming.
Why are strikes and cool shots and UAVs in this game? They give an unfair advantage to founders like me that have 150,000,000 cBills to spare and newer players just have to eat that extra alpha I can pull off because of it or lost all their back armor to a strike or get rained on from cover because of a well placed UAV.
Remember Long Toms? How many people did that drive away? Your side is winning, you have the advantage, AND you get Long Toms on top of it, making anyone fighting against you struggle even more as you get free kills.
Why do we have Solaris 7 and FP if the majority isn't playing them because they aren't very fun?
There is a Solaris 7 event happening right now and I couldn't find a single person in 2v2 on a Friday evening last night Pacific prime time.
Why have you wasted so many resources on these modes? Why didn't you just make more modes and better group/solo queue play where your main audience is?
How much money did you divert from MWO for MW5? How many people on your payroll are working on MW5 instead of MWO?
Why don't you ever use the PTS? We literally have to beg you to use it before you make drastic changes.
Why don't you buy ad space with any of our revenue? Even mobile games with no one playing them yet can get ads on Youtube, you could buy space on PCGamer, Alienware Arena, AGAIN and do more promotional stuff with other companies but you don't. You stopped doing that a long time ago and even when you dropped on Steam you didn't announce it to the world, you got a bit of an influx of players (I think a lot of them were just unable to use your awful portal app) and you did squat with that.
Why were the steam premium packs taken down? Why are they so expensive? What is wrong with the Steam packs being for sale? Why didn't you make any more? I bought 3 of the damn things. 1 assault pack and 2 heavy mech packs during summer sales. Why is this no longer a thing?
You know that you can look at things 2 ways right?
Sell high and sell few, but make money off smaller sales
Or sell low and sell more and make money off more sales
Why can't we buy individual mechs in the mechpacks yet? Why is that? I don't want 3 omnimechs that can all run the same build when I could buy just a hero and mix in other pods...
Why does a purchase through the Steam store not count as buying a mechpack for anniversary rewards? Why do they only count as MC when they're 49.99? Thats a collectors pack value right there.
Why (again) is all purchased premium time active instead of banked?
Why did we have garbage loot boxes for so long? Why do we still have garbage loot boxes but for free?
Why did you declare the game being dead live to hundreds of people? You want the game to die? You certain helped it die with that.
How much money did Harmony Gold get off you for the Warhammer? Was it enough to do serious damage?
How soon are you losing the license to this game? Microsoft not going to let you continue because you can't afford to renew and are making them too little money? Are you spending too much money frivolously on new outside game modes instead of group and solo queue modes?
If MW5 is a disaster (as I suspect even with mod support) will your company dissolve like IGP?
You know IGP is PGI backwards right?
Why don't you run an investment campaign, with 500$ gold paint schemes that make any mech you put them on into 30% cBill bonus mech, single use.
Edited by Xetelian, 01 June 2019 - 09:35 PM.
