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[Ch_R0me]

So, I've noticed, that Transverse website is still up and running.

https://www.transversegame.com/

And now, I'm wondering - we don't have many active multiplayer Space Sim games, and now, that some time have passed since the Golden Mech Disaster, along with reputation repaired and further built up with MW5 Mercenaries and Clans, I think that PGI should revisit the project and revive it.

I could still appreciate the alternative to Elite: Dangerous, Star Citizen or EVE Online (despite some folks only remembering it badly).

[Will9761]

It would be nice if PGI could take what they have learned from Transverse and made an AeroTech Game.

[LordNothing]

kerbal killed the space sim. there are those masochists that play elite dangerous, but i would rather fight isaac newton than station fines.

as an aside kitten space agency is now in alpha, and its rock solid stable provided you have a gpu made in the last 10 years. it doesnt do much right now other than let you torch drive around the solar system, but good foundations are everything in modern game design. not built in sand over a fault line like pgi did back in closed beta.

Edited by LordNothing, 26 November 2025 - 12:59 PM.

[Tesunie]

Ch_R0me, on 14 November 2025 - 12:52 PM, said:

So, I've noticed, that Transverse website is still up and running.

I am going to add here... Transverse had other issues beyond PGI's handling. At the time, we had the "professionally dissatisfied" (which we still have at times here, but they are a lot quieter now). These people where very vocal about how bad PGI was (which, I will add, was still governed by IGP at the time, and we have IGP to thank for the introduction (and problems) with Clan mechs and Gold Mechs), and they basically did a smear campaign. A lot of false statements were thrown around, a lot of accusations mades, and not a lot of facts presented.

Transverse could have been something, but a vocal minority, I feel, unjustly executed it because they just hated PGI. It was a whole can of worms that was opened, and no one handled it properly.


FYI: We still have some professionally dissatisfied that plague PGI at times. When MW:O was released on Steam, some of these people attempted to impact the ratings with poor reviews, stating issues in the game that had been fixed for years as though they were still in the game. We just recently had a slew of "strangely similar sounding posts" about "this game sucks after playing X games" and "I'm leaving because I don't stand a chance, this game is unplayable", etc. Very similar sounding language and story, which lead several of us on the forums believing it was the same person complaining with alt accounts. Those accounts posted the once. Was never seen again.


As a final note, never underestimate what a smear campaign can do to something. I feel Transverse was killed/delayed by it. (I don't think it is being considered anymore, but who knows.)

[LordNothing]

that's the problem when you inherit a passionate community. you pretty much have to walk on eggshells not to offend anyone. break the slightest hint of a promise, retcon the wrong thing, appear to not take the franchise seriously, and the salt will flow. i bet a not insignificant amount of that salt was likely from the mwll and mektek communities. finding out that development was killed on something you've been playing for years, and find that the alternative replacing it is in a sorry state and on a pricing model nobody wanted.

Edited by LordNothing, 28 November 2025 - 03:46 PM.

[CeeKay Boques]

Tesunie, on 28 November 2025 - 08:48 AM, said:

As a final note, never underestimate what a smear campaign can do to something. I feel Transverse was killed/delayed by it. (I don't think it is being considered anymore, but who knows.)

No. No smear. Basic Math Money. PGI only had MWO money. They did not have some other money. They used the funds MWO players gave them in hopes of a kick *** MWO, and used that money, time and resources to give us something other than MWO, with fully video, game plans, etc.... as if PGI was Blizzard and we just wanted whatever they made. They used money for Mechwarrior for Not Mechwarrior, thwarting the hopes of the people who gave them money, on some dream, pretending that the long lag was production... when they were producing this cash grab. It felt so so much like bait and switch.

Companies can totally do this, its their money. However, that's the last money I gave to this, and was I was whaling it up.

I'm on the same page with MW5 now. We are now at 2 Flagships and 5 DLC. I won't spend another dime until they divert one coding guy for a month or whatever it takes to spend time making it so that the joystick that works in MWO also works in MW5 without hand coding from the player via two separate apps. Its embarrassing for them, frankly. I want them to be better. They are good, but miss the basic stuff. Like that Mech money is for a Mech game. Mech is played with joystick from players who love it. Base stuff.

Glad Transverse is dead. Could have been a cool Areospace thing for the game we already gave money for.

[CeeKay Boques]

Tesunie, on 28 November 2025 - 08:48 AM, said:

Transverse could have been something, but a vocal minority, I feel, unjustly executed it because they just hated PGI. It was a whole can of worms that was opened, and no one handled it properly.


FYI: We still have some professionally dissatisfied that plague PGI at times. When MW:O was released on Steam, some of these people attempted to impact the ratings with poor reviews, stating issues in the game that had been fixed for years as though they were still in the game. We just recently had a slew of "strangely similar sounding posts" about "this game sucks after playing X games" and "I'm leaving because I don't stand a chance, this game is unplayable", etc. Very similar sounding language and story, which lead several of us on the forums believing it was the same person complaining with alt accounts. Those accounts posted the once. Was never seen again.

Ok, fair, also the GoonSquad, eff their nega till its betta way of thinking. They squawked in jest, and idiots took up the banner.

Edited by CeeKay Boques, 08 December 2025 - 07:47 PM.

[LordNothing]

mwo only still exist because they sold it to a company that built their whole business model around milking dying f2p games.