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[WM Jeri]

Not anymore

[Hellen Wheels]

I would not recommend it to anyone without at least a passing knowledge of battletech.

[Hexenhammer]

If people like big stompy robot combat then yes. But I also tell them the game is in development, and don't spend any money on it till the meta game is in.

I've not used my MC yet as I am waiting on the meta game

Edited by Hexenhammer, 20 November 2012 - 11:07 PM.

[Bloody]

No

Game is not ready for general release.

I am an old school person with old school values. These kind of patch as you pay is not the kind of development i would support or recommend to anyone. No one would buy a car which is half finished . There are plenty of games out there which are better value for your time.

Edited by Bloody, 20 November 2012 - 11:37 PM.

[SiDheBRX]

I have, and I will.

Since I've joined some 3 months ago, I've seen steady improvement of a game with indeed already decent fundamentals. Believe it or not, we are having fun over here even with the 4man drop groups.

There are very few disconnects in fact, and there are only very few bugs.

If I think of one or the other major title, say Empire Total War, upon release, and a basically unplayable state, I'd say this game isn't that bad at all, in fact, I have to agree with those here who say it's quite good.

I can't agree at all with those who say that community concerns are not adressed. That is simply not true, a lot of balancing is continuously going on and I can see with my sporadic screening of this forum that tweaks do respond to community concerns.

That doesn't mean that everything is fine yet, clearly. I'm personally disappointed that we didn't get 8pl drop groups yesterday. But the game is on a very good track, and I can and will recommend it (already in this state, and major features are idd yet to come..)

[Kurayami]

already. but pgi gave them kick in da balls - 5-7 fps. so they are waiting for optimization and new rig.

[Reoh]

The only people that get decried on the forums provide nothing of worth to resolving the issue (often not even citing one at all) and claim the game is already dead; And justly so. having a history with programming there are very few "simple bugs." If they were that simple they'd have been resolved within a day. This isn't to say there isn't room for improvement in a number of areas of the game. Do you see the giant "WE'RE HIRING" symbol below? They're adding more people to help bring the game up to pace. Games that are going under are generally firing people to stretch the budget.

Also, yes I would and do recommend the game to my friends.

[Goodfella SOG]

I really, really feel that when this is done...it will be EPIC

MW4 and its iterations happily occupied 4+ years of my life... meeting and playing with new, lasting freinds
we had a BLAST...

but then...you didn't need to be a Rocket Surgeon just to operate a MECHLAB

[Kaspirikay]

I recommended to 2 of my friends. They love it. We sometimes play together.

[DerMaulwurf]

MWO has potential and is different enough from its competitors that I will recommend it as soon as its stable.

However, as of now, both the lacking netcode and the engine optimization don't fit the bill. I'm a BT fan, so I can look over that (for some time at least), but my friends aren't (although they're familiar with the MechWarrior franchise).

As soon as PGI has enough progress on these issues, I will recommend MWO, but unfortunately the development on the latter is going in the wrong direction.

[Cole Allard]

I am soooo sorry...

...I allready did.

They are still laughing and making jokes after they tried it.

[Minos Murdoc]

I have recommended it to rest of my guild/corp that didnt know about it. they have all started playing since Open Beta, but they are getting pissed off with it as am i. I love the game and can see a future for it but the inability of PGI to fix the bugs/issues that are giving us the problems and lack of communication are driving people away.

I will continue to play but will also be playing other stuff but untill they sort things out i wont be recommending it to anyone else. Things i think they need to sort out ASAP
-Netcode and hit boxes
-Collisions
-AFK farmers
-Streaks
-Overheat shutdown error
-Jenners (will be taken care of with some of the above)

[stjobe]

I've recommended it and brought three friends in to play after open beta started.

They love it, but then again they're pretty smart and know what the word "beta" means.

[Zawarudo]

Best recommendation about MWO - Do not even try.

[sokitumi]

By next summer. Probably yes.

As it is now? here's a typical conversation:
"Hey, how's that MWO?"
"The game has a lot of potential and pretty good graphics for the small amount of content so far, but PGI should never have published open beta at this stage."
"how so?"
... conversation trails off with descriptions of all the simple problems such as the netcode / hit detection / poor implementation of balancing / general stability / poor beginner experience / pvp only / no CW / mecha game where environments are static, non-destructible, with crytek no-less / etc etc etc

... and more than often the conversation spins into how F2P is a plague.

Edited by sokitumi, 21 November 2012 - 01:32 AM.

[Ghogiel]

Only people I know who are remotely interested in battletech.

I wouldn't want other types of gamers to be introduced to it in such a state.

[Hoshi Toranaga]

Not at this time. Largely why I have not yet included my RL friends or mates from other games here... I know I am a diehard BT fan, but they are "just" gamers and prolly would hate it for the bugs and for lack of teaming. So I rather play tanks with them.

[Mister Haha]

I can't get more than 1 of my friends to play this game with me, along with my girlfriend.

That's it. I can't get anyone to stick with it..

Not entirely sure why.

[PeRRaKo]

I did, but when they saw this was "Grindwarrior" instead of Mechwarrior they told me to ***** myself...

[Aristotelis]

Of course and I recommended already to 10 at least friends!!!Some of them bought the founder program! The game it rocks,it's the best mechwarrior I 've played and I'm curious why do you cry all of you about every new patch???Why so much drama?? If you don't like go play an arcade..