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I am begging, please add minimum level requirements to pilot...
The Djinn:
Mr.Disaster I hope Alliance brings in great things and great players for Skirmish...but as someone who isn't especially interested in Alliance as a game mode, I'm not super convinced it's the solution, as I suspect it may just fragment the playerbase more.
Hoja Lateralus:
--- Quote from: The Djinn on March 06, 2016, 03:16:14 pm ---Mr.Disaster I hope Alliance brings in great things and great players for Skirmish...but as someone who isn't especially interested in Alliance as a game mode, I'm not super convinced it's the solution, as I suspect it may just fragment the playerbase more.
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Yeah, that's a whole new problem. Since GOIO is a multiplayer only game you can say that it's developer's responsibility* to the customer to provide a playerbase to play with, usually via content updates/add-ons, community support (events, tournaments), marketing and pricing. Nowadays developer, especially for multiplayer games, is expected (although not really obliged) to provide extra content after the game release, for how long - it depends on the game and developer, but either for as long to fit production cycle (i.e. until release of the new game, like in BF or CoD series, although those games have also single player functionality) or as long as possible to maintain profits.
So you can wonder whether you see GOIO as a complete game that doesn't require often updates, many people will argue otherwise, especially given very low playerbase (and some of the supposed reasons for it).
For players who only have Skirmish this may seem like a bad developer practice - to neglect** current game (that at least for some players still requires attention and new content, delicately speaking) in order to start and run a new project (that they can earn money*** from). Especially given some desperate calls on the forum in the spirit of "We can pay you, but please do some additional content!".
Interesting example for instance is the fact stated by one of the devs, that money coming from skirmnish shop is enough to pay for the art team. But that art team isn't really working on skirmnish stuff, but mostly on Alliance stuff. Of course the developers can do whatever they want with their money, of course... but given the state of the game skirmnish-only players may not be happy with such state of affairs****.
I don't want to be over-negative because I truly believe that Muse are trying to be as fair- and work as hard as they can, but they are the ones who have put themselves and us in such situation.
I also realise that the point of Alliance isn't some people out of the Moon, but us, GOIO fanbase, but many of us***** have chosen not to buy Alliance for various reasons, and those people have only lost from this, although you may argue that such situation is unavoidable one way or another.
* Yes, fellas, this is a responsibility of the DEVELOPER, not player, not vet, developer.
** Because I think most of us feels that Skirmish is neglected in order to enable working on Alliance
*** We have good reasons to believe that Muse Games are good guys, I am not accusing them of anything, just showing how it may look from the distance
**** cough MAPS cough
***** I'm not in this group, but I don't care for Alliance that much at the moment
ZnC:
ANYWAY.
I wanted to give an update. On Fireside they said matchmaker will restrict novices from searching as a pilot.
The Djinn:
--- Quote from: Zanc on March 06, 2016, 04:21:26 pm ---ANYWAY.
I wanted to give an update. On Fireside they said matchmaker will restrict novices from searching as a pilot.
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Urgh. That would really upset me if I were a novice pilot.
BlackenedPies:
--- Quote from: The Djinn on March 06, 2016, 04:47:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zanc on March 06, 2016, 04:21:26 pm ---I wanted to give an update. On Fireside they said matchmaker will restrict novices from searching as a pilot.
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Urgh. That would really upset me if I were a novice pilot.
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They're still free to play novice matches
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