Posted 19 October 2017 - 11:17 AM

I think that eliminating the leaderboard without replacing it with some other competitive angle isn't the right way to go here. I don't personally care, and don't buy mech packs anymore, but there are a LOT of people who dig that sort of thing.



I didn't see anything about concurrent events...and I really do think you need them on release day. Look, mech sales are your big income source right? Unless you've got something else to replace that with then releasing new mechs needs to be a bigger deal than it is in-game right now. Leader boards, personal challenge events for everyone, etc. No, it doesn't need to be a lot of cash and it doesn't have to be "shoot the new guy!"...but if it's not there a mech release sorta fades away. I don't even know which mechs were released today, and probably won't other than seeing them in game...unless there's a reason for me to look for them, like a challenge to TAG one.



The guys with the new rides like having plenty of targets and even a "play every day that the new mech pack guys have an event" bonus gets people to show up. Throw me an extra 10,000 cbills each game that I play over 100 match score during the event and I'll be there. Cap it at an extra 100,000 per day. That's fine, it's like one round of QP. No big deal, but it's something. You can double that for the TSP holders or just add one extra 10,000 for the first or fifth match or whatever and you've lost so little it only bears commenting because of the futility of caring about 10,000 cbills...all while making TSP holders happy and continuing to promote both it and the tournament.



Just add "something" man...if you can do that RIGHT NOW it'd satisfy plenty of people who are irked and shaking their heads while not causing any real consternation amongst the white knights who want PGI to keep all that tasty cash to themselves (like cbills can be spent...).



You don't even have to have a good explanation for it. No one really cares. The angry people will throw up their hands and say "about time!" while the Defenders Of The Realm aren't going to see any significant payout to gripe about either.



Yes, there's lots of "stuff" on the way...if Halloween didn't have an event I might actually be disturbed...but that doesn't change the need to maintain the little bit of continuity we've got going on here. If you really want to eliminate larger events during mech pack releases....well, I think it's a terrible idea but it's your game...but you still should ramp down rather than disappearing the competetive/show up at all/reason to play angle all at once.



...I mean, seriously, all that's left to this game is a grind and a vaguely fun team deathmatch you can hop into when you feel like zapping robots. It's not deep. We get that...but we've really only got a very few reasons to even care to show up and pop some PPCs downrange as it is. Eliminating some of them leaves...what? The excitement of a years and years old game that's not got any depth and isn't developing at all with maps and graphics that never change etc? It's not enough man. It's not that people won't show up...but there's a reason I'm on these forums typing right now instead of playing and there's tons of other people doing the same.



I shut off a search for scouting matches earlier today. Hours...no hits...I realized it'd been almost three hours I'd been running it in the background waiting to see that flashing icon while I worked. I mean, I got some work done, but I also blew a ton of time on the internet because work blows. It would've been in-game if I'd had a point to playing in QP, even if it was a tiny and useless one like 10,000 cbills. Instead it just illustrated how few people are playing for any reason. I don't expect much out of FP/CW, but scouting always pops matches. If the handful of people who play the scouting game regularly are doing QP and I can't even get a game...at ALL...then the population issues are pretty damn serious and, seriously man, you need to keep the little things that work heated up and delivering.



Ciao. I'm off to tally up clarifications to a spec I really don't want to look at. It'd be great to feel a tiny bit of motivation to fire up MWO instead.

