DAEDALOS513, on 11 May 2023 - 09:24 AM, said:
If I've learned anything in life, it's that figures and charts don't tell the whole story.. just like the Jarl's List is not an accurate depiction of a pilots skill.. it only gives an overall picture, but is not accurate (and can be gamed.. but I digress). As I said before, this was years ago and I'm not going to waste my precious time delving into the past and rehashing the same arguments and pouring over charts and figures. Go back to the forums are read all the comments if that's what you want. Honestly.. I don't have to. I know how the merge affected the game because I LIVED through it. The game was dead in the water until the merge. Sure, other things may have played a part in giving the game a second-life.. but what was mentioned most in the forums for giving credit to MWO's revival, was the implementation of the SOUP queue. SOUP brought people back to the game (not events (lol), not empty promises.. and certainly not Covid.. there are too many (newer) games in the market where people could have invested their time).. and these returning mechwarrior's brought their friends with them..
SOUP was the impetus.. everything else was secondary.. imo ofc.
Oh. Enough of the lies already. You say that as if you were the only one who played this game and saw everything that happens to it. You will not believe it, but there are people besides you who have seen all the changes in the game with their own eyes.
I've been in the game the whole time too. And therefore, with equal authority to yours, I can say that at the moment when the absolutely reckless decision to merge the queues was made, there were no fewer people who responded negatively to this innovation (and perhaps even more) than those who applauded.
And, if we take into account the fact that both of our opinions
are equivalent, then it is worth paying attention to objective data. In this case,
the objective data are the exact numbers that give the Jarl's list. And this objective data screams that the merging of queues has nothing to do with the growth in the number of players in the MWO.
Because the growth in the number of players began two months before the merging of the queues. Covid-19 did more to the survival of this game than the merging of queues that hurt then and continues to poison this game today.
Moreover, in your blind conviction that the merging of the queues allegedly saved the MWO, you stubbornly continue to ignore that this decision not only worsened the quality of battles in a QP, but also significantly reduced the player base in a FP. If all of you who whine about the need for groups in QP, instead of spoiling the quality of matches in QP, would go to FP, then this mode would not die.