Posted 08 April 2013 - 09:35 AM

A small one-time MC and/or CB fee to create a Merc Corp * .



. Some aspects of CW will reward players with MC, we are considering a Premium Account requirement to participate in these rewards. This will not prevent non-paying customers to participate in all aspects of CW with their friends and teammates.



If we decided to launch Private Matches, they will likely require a Premium Account to cover costs of hosting a match on our hardware.

At this time no final decisions have been made.

I made mention near the end of the conversation that no final decisions have been made. I also used soft language, like may, possibly, could, probably - these are far from definite. At no time did I make any statements of finality.



I did not clarify that the requirement of premium time would be for the MC reward system and private matches. Both are part of the CW.

, we will not require players to have a Premium Account to play in a Merc Unit., we are considering monetizing aspects of Community Warfare.We are looking at ways to prevent/mitigate name reserving and parking. We may simply require players to have a minimum of 1 company or 12 active players to maintain a valid status.Due to the article coming out on a Friday and myself being on vacation, I was not in a position to write this response on the forums. Instead I used my Twitter account to try and alleviate some of the concerns. Please consider any communication via my Twitter account as an official response.The Polygon article was correctly reported with one omission by the interviewer and one omission from myself:The response from the community and the timing of events were both unfortunate.We cannot control when third-parties release their interviews with us and how they present the information we have provided them.While we accept that the community is passionate and expects communication from us, and we always strive to provide the best answer we can:Sometimes we are simply not available to answer right at that moment; Holidays do exist for developers.It’s one thing to disagree politely and intelligently, even passionately, with the content as it had been initially presented.It’s a whole other issue when the community sends violent threats to PGI/IGP staff for any reason: whether it’s a misunderstanding or for not being available to respond in as timely a manner as expected.However, we will hold firm that aggressive and threatening behaviour towards staff of fellow MechWarriors will never be acceptable and will result in banishment for those who do so.I take solace in the fact that this behavior represents the minority, not the majority of our amazing players.There are probably hundreds of other questions to be answered, however this was by far the most pressing. We are going to be rolling out a series of Command Chair posts over the next few weeks and months detailing all the aspects of CW. Since it's such a large feature, it will take time to reveal all the details.