We can all agree on one thing….
I think we can all agree that Massive really effed this thing up and I’m sure it’s more complicated than that but there is no denying that most of the negatives in this game are Multiplayer based. I posted a thread in April asking Massive to not let their egos ruin this game and unfortunately it seems to be the case. They seemed to have an arrogance about what we needed and wanted instead of just listening to us. Instead they force team gameplay down our throats, take out vehicles, take out standard FPS modes like DM and CTF. Cancel the Beta, insist that they “know what is best for us”. Yet in the end they obviously had no clue what they were doing.
How is it possible that you played this game regularly and nobody noticed how terrible the lobby system was? Or that transmission felt too much like domination and that the transmission nodes needed to circulate faster. Or while capturing a node in FS thought “Wow it sucks that I can’t stop puncturing this barrel to kill the enemy who has been running at me for 8 secs but hasn’t seen me yet”. Or thought it was a good idea to not have DM or CTF? Or a way to search for authors of maps? Or a party system in a “Team Oriented” game??!
The answer unfortunately is Massive’s inexperience in the genre and it’s condescending mentality towards it’s players. Two things we all saw coming a mile away and no matter how vocal we were in the forums Massive was too busy telling us to eat our vegetables and take our vitamins.
Thanks Massive, I hope you learned your lesson.
Now please fix our game.