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I'm tired of being told "soon." I'm tired of devs backing out of stated deadlines. I'm tired of devs answering questions on Reddit instead of here. I'm tired of playing the same 4.3 maps. But mostly I'm tired of not getting the "triple A" experience I was sold last year, only to see week after week, month after month of no change in Netcode, stability (4 fps bug, client hanging on shutdown, no DX11 to utilize my modern GPU) and no Community Warfare (90 days after Open Beta).
Apparently the only way to reach them is decreased profits and lower playercounts. I beg you: if you're not satisfied please stop playing daily, and stop buying MC. You vote with your wallet, not your post history. I vow from now on to only play on patch day to see if the game has SIGNIFICANTLY improved.
If you are satisfied by your MWO experience, by all means continue to play and enjoy. No one is trying to hinder your fun here. But if you're not happy, give them something to think about, and join me in finding something less disappointing to spend our precious free time.
EDIT: Ok, so going by some of the posts, including the one Garth quoted, many people are misinterpreting the quote as "devs don't care about people who post frequently." That is NOT what is being said at all. What is meant by it is that when you make posts claiming "the game is unplayable, not fun, crap, etc." and they look up your stats and see that you play 8 hours a day and buy MC every week, you are clearly exaggerating. "If the game was not fun, why are you spending all your time here?" is the question that they ask, and dismiss your complaint as simply Internet hyperbole. If ECM (to pick a hot topic as an example) just ruins the game for you, STOP PLAYING. Don't make a rage post and then keep playing, as you're effectively shooting your own argument in the foot. What would be better is to take a screenshot of your stats, don't play any matches until the next patch, check in for a few games, take another picture of your stats showing only a couple of matches, and the PM a developer or an IGP staff mod (like Chris K or miSs) detailing that this latest patch doesn't fix the important issues.
Actions speak louder than words. Let's do a small case study here: the recent implementation of the Cadet Bonus. I know back in closed beta, there were many topics on how Trial mechs and the very slow acquisition of a player's first mech would turn a lot of new players away, and this was voiced by mainly Founders. Many said that although the Founders were eager to put money towards this game sight unseen, someone not familiar to the franchise just looking for a new game wasn't going to be coerced into spending money on avoiding the harsh initial grind because there isn't really anything to hook them in with. These concerns were by and large ignored, possibly because the people saying their plan wouldn't work were people who the plan had worked on. Now fast-forward to Open Beta. New players came, and many probably left without saying anything. It didn't take long for the Cadet Bonus and the removal of the repair/rearm mechanics. Why?
Because PGI lost potential customers. They didn't rage about it, they just left. They hadn't invested anything other than the download anyways, so it wasn't a big deal to them, but the metrics that the devs keep tabs on caused them to change their stance.
I still have two weeks left on my founders premium time, and I'm just going to let it evaporate. PGI was kind enough to give me almost a month before patching in the activate button, so I'm not really losing a portion of my purchase. But think about the message I'm sending here: "That premium content you gifted me? Yeah, not really worth it to me." How motivated do you think I'm going to be to purchase more premium time in the future if I'm throwing away the free time? They may have sold me on a promise, and then pulled a bait and switch, and now I'm out my $60, but do you think I'll fall for it next time IGP tries to sell me something? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. If you have the willpower to walk away, they'll beg you to come back.
Also: Garth: the same goes for you. Actions speak louder than words. Sure you can come here and holler "How can you say we don't care? I write a MASSIVE email with suggestions each week," but you need to prove it to us. You can say you care about the community all you want, but you(the devs, whom you largely represent as the community manager) have neglected to provide updates on the status of changes to ERLL/PPC, even though Paul said that we'd be kept updated. You haven't provided us with examples of community suggestions that have been pushed through. You haven't made an official post on ECM, even though it's been a major complaint since it's implementation. You didn't even post the Ask a Dev answers on time, even though you gave yourself the weekend for the first time around. You say you care, but how can we believe you when you don't bother to keep your word. It's not like we're asking for an unreasonable rate of development (ok, so some of us are) but we just want to be kept in the loop, and instead you tell Reddit why PPC changes have been delayed, instead of the founders.
Edited by Fenix0742, 23 January 2013 - 08:27 AM.
