justcallme A S H, on 03 October 2019 - 08:57 AM, said:
What silence?
Russ came out some 4-5 months ago and said there would be no real dev time...
I think that 4-5 months of subsequent “silence” since Russ’s announcement is the issue (ignoring one’s subjective take on the tone, and subjective in-advisability of the announcement itself).
We’ve all watched and/or experienced first hand the seemingly precipitous drop off in population (not to mention enthusiasm) for MWO since that announcement, and yet only Matt (via his various sales and events) is the only dev seemingly active in trying to hold things together. But even his efforts are only about the here and now. None of the devs have really made any indication of any sort regarding MWO having a future (beyond Paul’s vague assurance that his engineers continue looking for further CW fixes in the next patch, which is great and all, but that too doesn’t hint at great things to come, ya know what I mean?).
I think this relative “silence” is exacerbating the population loss that Russ’s last announcement triggered. If Russ had Paul, or Tina, or even better, Matt (I think he has the most favorable reputation among the greater community) occasionally posting things along the lines of:
“Hey everyone, we know the patch this month is pretty thin, and the next several months will be likewise, but don’t worry! While all our efforts are focused on MW5 right now, once we have that in the can and ready for beta and then release, we still have lots of great stuff planned for MWO.”
Or if Russ himself would have framed MWO’s future in those sorts of terms, instead of what he actually said in the announcement (not going to rehash it again), then maybe folks would have a bit of hope that MWO has a future, and we wouldn’t be seeing/feeling this ‘rats from a sinking ship’ vibe that seems to be prevalent since his EPIC/MWO maintenance mode announcement.
But instead all we have is the effective “silence” that has followed since Russ’s announcement. The lack of even a pretense of enthusiasm for the game or it’s future by any of the devs, be it here, Reddit or even their various twitter accounts is not helping staunch the “hemorrhaging” mentioned above, and I think it has perhaps made it even worse than it otherwise might have been. Unfortunately, I think their “silence” is intentional because they actually don’t intend for MWO to have much of a future.