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1453 R, on 04 January 2022 - 11:40 AM, said:
Yes. So many things, indeed.
And as Biggz said, that had nothing to do with any sort of inherent bias, the way you keep insinuating, but rather was a result of declining player population. Note: the Solaris queue also died, and Solaris was very nearly strictly one-on-one, solo duels only.
If you don't know the facts, then stop presuming facts where you openly admit you have none and insinuating that group queue died because groups are bad. They merged the queues because of declining player population. They said so themselves, and literally everybody who knows anything about how online games works believes them. Anything else is just bad-faith rumormongering intended to push an agenda and we all know it, so stop it.
Maybe - just maybe - there shouldn't be a divide between "Solos" and "groups", but instead simply a pool of MechWarrior Online players? Some of whom drop solo, some of whom drop in groups, and some of whom do both depending on the preferences of the evening? it's not my queue, your queue, Biggz' queue, or anybody else's queue. It's "The MWO Quick Play Queue", and you use it when you want to drop into a MWO Quick Play match. Stop trying to claim possession of something that was never yours to begin with.
See the little green shame symbol under my name? I'm in T4. My friends, as a general rule, are in T3, with one of them bouncing between T3 and T2 depending on how memey his 'Mech builds get. Just this last weekend we played a match in HPG against D A T A and two other members of the 1st Jaguar Guards, i.e. the MWO 2020 and 2021 championship competitive team. We got shat on like the toilet at a cheap Mexican restaurant, because Tier 0 Ultracomps matching up against a T4 harlot in a suboptimal Scorch build doesn't end well for the harlot.
Would you rather D A T A and his friends/team simply not be allowed to play? They deserve quick play matches too, and somebody's gotta drop on the red side whenever they queue up.
Declining. Player. Populations. MWO is below the threshold required for extremely tight skill balancing, and this game is extremely difficult to "skill balance" given how many X-factors there are in it and how widely player output can vary. Almost no other competitive game will allow you to cripple yourself as thoroughly as MWO will through improper 'Mechbay usage. How many times have you seen a 'Mech build and asked yourself "what the actual f@#$, dude?" Do you think that has no bearing on match experience? Do you think people exist at one, single skill level, perpetually, with no variance?
Your entire position reeks of entitlement and the idea that you believe the game owes you something other than eleven teammates and twelve opponents whenever you click the "PLAY" button. You know what I've never seen? Pbiggz coming on the forums here to kvetch and ***** and complain whenever he inevitably gets blown up by a random JGx drop during slow days where the queues are low. Because he, like everyone else who knows how this stuff works, simply shrugs it off and queues up again.
Stop taking your losses personally. Stop blaming the game for them. Victory comes, victory goes - either accept the winds of fate and take solace in your wins when you get them, or start building a competitive team if you truly hate losing and want to try and learn to win as often as possible.
Oh, cry me a river, Sobbs McGee. You were not, and never have been, "soft banned". You have always been just as able to play MWO as ever, you can always click the "PLAY" button the same as anybody else. You're just not willing to click "PLAY" unless the game promises to hand you an unbroken string of free wins to pad out your ego with, and frankly not a single solitary soul in MWO is obligated to make you feel better about yourself. You want to win more? Git Gudder.
Player populations are higher than they've been in the last three years and have been trending upwards for the last several months despite Soup Queue. You have no evidence. You barely have an argument.
Biggz? Do you happen to have any of the Cauldron's screengrabs/slides on player counts over the last few years? He did ask for math, after all, and I don't know off the top of my head where that information is kept.
And as Biggz said, that had nothing to do with any sort of inherent bias, the way you keep insinuating, but rather was a result of declining player population. Note: the Solaris queue also died, and Solaris was very nearly strictly one-on-one, solo duels only.
If you don't know the facts, then stop presuming facts where you openly admit you have none and insinuating that group queue died because groups are bad. They merged the queues because of declining player population. They said so themselves, and literally everybody who knows anything about how online games works believes them. Anything else is just bad-faith rumormongering intended to push an agenda and we all know it, so stop it.
Maybe - just maybe - there shouldn't be a divide between "Solos" and "groups", but instead simply a pool of MechWarrior Online players? Some of whom drop solo, some of whom drop in groups, and some of whom do both depending on the preferences of the evening? it's not my queue, your queue, Biggz' queue, or anybody else's queue. It's "The MWO Quick Play Queue", and you use it when you want to drop into a MWO Quick Play match. Stop trying to claim possession of something that was never yours to begin with.
See the little green shame symbol under my name? I'm in T4. My friends, as a general rule, are in T3, with one of them bouncing between T3 and T2 depending on how memey his 'Mech builds get. Just this last weekend we played a match in HPG against D A T A and two other members of the 1st Jaguar Guards, i.e. the MWO 2020 and 2021 championship competitive team. We got shat on like the toilet at a cheap Mexican restaurant, because Tier 0 Ultracomps matching up against a T4 harlot in a suboptimal Scorch build doesn't end well for the harlot.
Would you rather D A T A and his friends/team simply not be allowed to play? They deserve quick play matches too, and somebody's gotta drop on the red side whenever they queue up.
Declining. Player. Populations. MWO is below the threshold required for extremely tight skill balancing, and this game is extremely difficult to "skill balance" given how many X-factors there are in it and how widely player output can vary. Almost no other competitive game will allow you to cripple yourself as thoroughly as MWO will through improper 'Mechbay usage. How many times have you seen a 'Mech build and asked yourself "what the actual f@#$, dude?" Do you think that has no bearing on match experience? Do you think people exist at one, single skill level, perpetually, with no variance?
Your entire position reeks of entitlement and the idea that you believe the game owes you something other than eleven teammates and twelve opponents whenever you click the "PLAY" button. You know what I've never seen? Pbiggz coming on the forums here to kvetch and ***** and complain whenever he inevitably gets blown up by a random JGx drop during slow days where the queues are low. Because he, like everyone else who knows how this stuff works, simply shrugs it off and queues up again.
Stop taking your losses personally. Stop blaming the game for them. Victory comes, victory goes - either accept the winds of fate and take solace in your wins when you get them, or start building a competitive team if you truly hate losing and want to try and learn to win as often as possible.
Oh, cry me a river, Sobbs McGee. You were not, and never have been, "soft banned". You have always been just as able to play MWO as ever, you can always click the "PLAY" button the same as anybody else. You're just not willing to click "PLAY" unless the game promises to hand you an unbroken string of free wins to pad out your ego with, and frankly not a single solitary soul in MWO is obligated to make you feel better about yourself. You want to win more? Git Gudder.
Player populations are higher than they've been in the last three years and have been trending upwards for the last several months despite Soup Queue. You have no evidence. You barely have an argument.
Biggz? Do you happen to have any of the Cauldron's screengrabs/slides on player counts over the last few years? He did ask for math, after all, and I don't know off the top of my head where that information is kept.
Hello 1453 R, welcome to the conversation.
I see here that you also like to make up for low quality with high quantity.
Please feel free to provide the why that changes the facts that you are disagreeing with.
All group ques died. Where is the why that makes this not a fact?
The only solo que lived. Where is the why that makes this not a fact?
D A T A can play in solo que there is nothing stopping them. Suggesting that if there is no group que that he can't play is a lie.
I haven't had losses that I take personally, like I said I don't play. When I did play winning wasn't that important to me. I think you are confusing me for someone that complained before. The fact that you didn't read my post and jumped to conclusions speaks volumes to the quality of your argument.
Please explain how me wanting solo que to stay solo is more entitled than you wanting it to change into what you want.
Me saying I was soft banned because you got what you want makes me a cry baby. PBiggz saying group players are soft banned because they wouldn't get what they want is Heroic? Resorting to name calling is proof of your lack of a valid argument. Please Stop It.
I'm way better than you so saying I need to "Git Gudder" is rediculous.
I'm hoping you have a better argument to change my mind. I'm currently firmly entrenched in the idea that I prefer solo over group.
