hammerreborn, on 16 December 2012 - 01:39 PM, said:
Well good news is that come next patch if they keep to the schedule they are improving new user experience by significantly improving the money you obtain from your first 25 matches to get that new shiny mech faster.
all of which is absolutely backwards. MC prices are out of wack and too high, they are applied to the WRONG things as well. . . 250MC for a COLOR, are you NUTS!
New Users have NO incentive to just sign up, log in and play this game. . . beyond buddies. After hearing their buddies mash on the game for a bit and then playing it a while themselves most new players will just excuse themselves. I have had five different friends of mine who all play a wide range of games give this game a try based on my finding, trying and suggesting they give it a shot. NONE OF THEM PLAY ANYMORE. Two of them played for a whole three hours, after an hour and a half I had to just about BEG them to keep going. One of them played for a total of a week, after which he said the frustration of all the bugs, cost of everything and lack of in game communication / support made it worthless to him (he only had any real support or information if I was on and available). The last two still play from time to time, one bought MC the other bought a founders pack. . . they both regret it entirely. PGI has not done one thing to make this game appealing to players who make it past their sound bites and overly edited video hooks and to be quite honest I'm about out of energy to recruit / educate & retain any more of my friends, or just people in general. I used to pay it forward like I was asked to do by those who welcomed me to the game by taking their time to get me in TS3, educate me on builds, tactics and just general game play (including currently broken stuff, bugs and other negative aspects that once were brought to light made things easier to understand, excuse and deal with).
Bottom line is PGI, you're running out of fanbois, supporters and time. . . here's a guy that came in no strings attached, gave it a go and by all reasonable expectations failed due to your lack of ability to put it together. . . now what?