T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
I'm not disappointed by anything you said. Are you some sort of prophet? Nostradamus maybe?
I am just somebody who has been present on this very forums since the very beginning and has its experience with PGI.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
There already is a comp scene - I've participated in it since the first MWOWC and MRBC days, and the more recent community run events like the ToC events as well as the current MWOCS 2020. Comp is alive and doing just fine.
Nothing personal, but this is a minority in already niche game.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
And, I disagree that PGI is not willing to make big changes. What would be the point of renewing the license for 5 years, hiring Daeron, and opening up a conversation with the community to discuss a way forward that the playerbase wants.
- Without having the MechWarrior licence, PGI would not be able to sell its new MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and its old MechWarrior Online games. It is simple as that: You can not sell the trademarked goods if the trademark owner (Microsoft in this case) disagrees. This is why PGI needs that licence.
- As far as I know, Daeron Katz is not a programmer working on MWO, MWO map designer, texture artist, VFX artist or something like that. He is Russ Bullock's public spokesman. Actually he has been around and paid by Russ Bullock since 2012.
- Talk costs nothing and stoking the community a bit can not hurt to revive the interest of MOW fans.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
Point me to another game that has been successful enough for the developer to stay in business from said sole product for over 8 years while developing another game for 2 years of that 8, that is willing to listen to the playerbase customer and risk additional dev time for questionable gain? There are games out there that have managed to be successful for a long time.
I think that a significant part of the MWO's success is the core of
MechWarrior fans who simply can not move to another
MechWarrior title because no other currently exists. It's either this or nothing.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
True. That's why I personally beleive the way forward is UE4 or maybe even UE5. But that dream is years away. The players don't want to wait 2 years. So PGI has to do things now. It should be understood that those measures are a stop-gap to something new and better. But what will the "new and better" be? This is where I believe the community has an opportunity to steer PGI in the "right" direction.
That will depend partially on Russ Bullock's whim and partially the most vocal group of people that reaches him.
As for the community, the problem is that every single memeber of the MWO community has different ideas what PGI should do.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
While you have valid points, and I don't necessarily disagree, people can change too. Are you the same person you were 8 years ago? 5? I'm not looking for a "miracle cure". Personally, PGI could leave the game exactly as it is and I'll keep playing untill the servers go offline. I imagine most players do not feel the way I do.
But Russ Bullock has not changed much. He still ignores the forums as he has always done. As for the game, Minimally Viable Product, you know.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
Keep in mind also that some of the changes PGI made to MWO over the years came from the vocal few, not the silent majority. The "squeaky wheels" got the "grease" so to speak.
Yes, that's something I agree with. But it works both ways: If you are not a part of this vocal group, you opinion does not matter much.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
Well, I'm not sure how you are trying to find your posts over a year old, but it's not that difficult. See the "Search" box in the upper-right corner of your screen? Try that. I did. I searched simply for "martian", and got 734 pages. On page 10 I found multiple posts from you from 2013. Shall I need link to screenshots to prove it? So, again, link to your previous posts with your ideas - or better yet, just post your current ideas right here, in response to my post, instead of trying to rebuke me. Don't tell me it can't be done. It can. Don't tell me it's too tedious or takes too much time - you spend plenty of time 'round here, so you have the time.
First, I simply do not care about my posts older than one year.
Secondly, I am not going to go through two and half thousand posts to please some anonymous MWO player - especially if I can expect to get posts where I was merely quoted on top of it. Not to talk that some of my posts might no be even visible anymore if they were in some threads that were "disappeared" by the mods.
T e c h 4 9, on 08 November 2020 - 07:15 AM, said:
And if you really beleive it to be too tedious or too time-consuming as you have better things to do with your time and energy - fine, I'll accept that answer - then just post your constructive feedback of how to improve MWO, right here, right now. Can you do that?
I am not a man especially close to Russ Bullock's heart, so I see no point in wasting my effort on something like that again. I think that I will rather drop into the game to enjoy it, while it still exists.