MM - reduce the drop count, it's basically your only option at this point and current size of the population.
New maps - good, but if you aren't going to push a change to modes to make them more interesting ultimately useless
Legends - don't care. Many of us have stated for years we want to designate our own hero (c-bill) mechs, the ones that we like to run. Also not all that interested in a system that is built on playing a single mech. It's going to bungle up the MM worse, and just lead to more boring play overall.
New weapons - probably good. Maybe take some time to make ecm, ecm only.
FP - if its not multi-drop/campaigns and highly focused on objective competition (and highly pushed away from deathball alley) it's not going to be anything more interesting to play. Clans didn't help it any, but its biggest failure was that it took the least fun aspect of the game for anyone not in meta build 12-mans and made it the center focus of design.
Platinum - personally don't care at all.
Don't care about the tournament, or really annual rewards. Monthly and lootbags are more or less interesting but its dumb that you have to go to the website to collect anything.
-- modes need to be massively improved, game needs a hard shift from skirmish being the default for everything
-- original mechs need more variants, even if they don't have fully adapted models
-- seriously, let the players purchase a hero designation
-- the "skill tree" should be net-zero, its one major thing that has always (since its original iteration) had a negative effect on people running new mechs or the unfortunate lower skill/more casual players getting drops with vets and higher tiers.
-- since you can't get energy management, "passive" equipment (ecm/bap/computers/strikes/uavs - probably gauss as a weapon exception) should have non-dispersible heat.
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Next game is fine to be upfront pay. maybe an actually reasonable yearly/battlepass if you reduce the store costs significantly.
100% needs to be more focused on lance v lance over 8v8/12v12 play - it can be larger drops but it needs to be more than run of the mill tdm so you can actually engage and retain players.
To be perfectly honest it would probably be best for it to be a dlc for MW5/MWclans(or whatever you end up going with) so you don't have to write an entire new game, just build on that system to make it pvp and less reliant on trash mobs.
-if it was incorporated into that/those game(s) it also gives you a client/launcher that puts your entire player base into your full set of games instead of spreading it out across 3 games with 3 completely separate installs for many of the same assets. Increases your opportunity for dlc sales, increases your audience to have eyes on/get into the pvp version. Truly kind of silly to push it out to be more disconnected even with the planned new pve.
-The entire game franchise needs to actually put some effort into advertising. Basic stuff like ad/search words are completely ignored. Your packages on steam/gog are terribly written so people have almost no idea what they are buying, and when there are sales they are never advertised even through their emails much less pushed onto their promoted sections.
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In my honest opinion one of the most major problems this game has always had and was pretty well reinforced with the amount of time spent on it in this video - you are MASSIVELY more concerned about the store and art assets than developing a game. How much more in sales could have been had if a higher player population was retained by simply putting in the effort to design it so there was actually more than effectively a single mode no matter what mode/map/qp/fp you choose or get on any drop?
How many units of players would have stuck around and kept buying reinforcement packs if FP was actually interesting to play, and not designed to be a unit/group farm of solo players?
Edited by sycocys, 13 January 2023 - 10:00 PM.
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Raining Fire, on 13 January 2023 - 09:11 PM, said:
