Well, as much as I'm enjoying the controversy coming out from this over the top rant and the long ***** train of White Knights coming out of the woodwork like rats to PGI's defense, allow me a moment to put my big boy pants back on 'cause I just hate to see Inertiaman get lynched all by his lonesome self. In fact, I am quite touched that he has an educated man that can see past all my snark and fanfare rage to the actual heart of the matter.
Ahem!
[BIG BOY PANTS - ENGAGED]
First off to the NGNG guy who poked his head into the hornet's nest. Sorry, brah. Like your show, but when you guys are just about married to the hip with PGI and help stoke the PR bonfire, somebody was bound to throw your names into the roast too. ...Especially when I had a lot of faith in what was said in the last interview, only to be disappointed again that it's the same old broken number.
Now, for me personally, I will admit freely that I am just like everyone else who subscribed to the Tolkien Craven 3L bible. I exploit ECM. I don't use LRM boats or Streak Cats. I'm a Scout pilot by upbringing, started on the Commando before I saw the Darkness and fell to temptation. ...Haven't looked back since considering my K/D is nearing 2.0 and my Wins are a good 100 or so higher than my losses.
Does this make me feel less compassion for PUGs and the mountain of corpses (mostly PUGs I bet) that I have built upon to get to where I am today? No. Absolutely NOT.
Some of them might just be plain ol' jaded, salty Founders who just like to lone wolf, but I bet the majority of them are new blood. The lifeblood of any F2P is the new blood, and when those guys are getting positively murdered by a 1.5 ton piece of equipment, which is a lot like the perk Ghost from the Call of Duty's prior to Black Ops 2... I think we need to acknowledge we have a problem.
It also doesn't help that piece of equipment weights victory in your favor because you don't have to worry about indirect fire punishing you.
It hurts build diversity because now you're hoping there's a decent EWAC dropping with you so he can cover for your weakness, and if there's none? Well, the bombs should be dropping any second now, and I hear close beta LRM wars weren't a whole lot of fun.
...But then you had knockdowns so it was mostly cool, I guess.
Anyways, I'd keep going, but the behavior of some of the Founders posting in this thread and the relativist apologies of some other posters, well, rubs me the wrong way. Seriously, you guys paid money for this game. You all have a stake in its future.
I expected better. Objectivity.
What I got instead was more apologies, more pep talks, etc.
It ain't the apocalypse, but we have a duty to keep the Devs honest and on the level because the things they did in this patch? ...Meh. You can only keep fooling me with shiny new toys and a new map for so long.
[BIG BOY PANTS - DISENGAGED]
All right, guys, go back to the feeding frenzy!
Edited by RANSARI, 20 February 2013 - 08:53 AM.