Deathshade, on 22 October 2019 - 05:20 PM, said:
Well maybe you should point me to the thread that tells a different story. The last time Russ spoke about MWO and how long it would keep going, there was no definite answer there and they have shutdown adding mechs.
Even Matt didn't respond to how long the servers would stay up with the mech sales we get here. With no details coming from PGI, all we can do is guess.
I was worried as well, but after the deal with Epic I'm sure they have the resources to keep MWO in maintenance mode for a few years at least. If MW5 does well, all the better for MWO.
The other reason for this is I suspect PGI has tentative plans to do a lot of cross-platform promotions--like cbills/mc for MWO after buying DLC for MW5, and other shenanigans, in a last ditch effort to build a larger playerbase for mwo and have the two work in concert. It likely won't be that successful, but it might keep the game around a bit longer as well. It will be interesting to see what happens regardless.