No I think I will continue. No need to make excuses either. Everyone here knows every MMO has launch issues, class imbalances, design oversights, and so on and TESO was no different. Just like every other MMO, it eventually gets fixed and new content is added.
No, most MMOs fail. At this point it haszeroto do with the game. They could fix all the bugs and turn it into ESO jesus and theystillcould not regain the subs. MMOs are a one shot deal. If your launch cannot retain subs and continue to push boxes past the first free month, you are fucked, plain and simple. Even the games that go F2P generally continue to suck, not because of one thing or the other but because the continuity of the dev team gets skullfucked by studios trying in vain to hang on to the sub model - they give up any chance they have of making the game into something useful by continuing to cut staff and budget to make it profitable until FINALLY giving in and cash shop whoring. By that point, though, there's no vision left except keeping your job so worthless pay-to-view content is all that's on their minds.
The difference is when stuff like ability delay and laggy combat was brought up you kept telling people it was so much better and nobody was complaining about it anymore. You're also the only person in the entire fucking game that didn't experience hardly any weapon swap delay. The fact you keep bringing up haters and trolls shows you have no fucking argument at all and use that to ignore real complaints.
If they really want it to grow they should start throwing around free weekends to former subscribers. Hardly anyone is going to pay 15 bucks to see if they unfucked something.
Gonna call you on that bullshit right now. They WERE different.
Seems like the irrational hate of those postersspread to the presstoo.
I always thought that was not a smart PR move on their part so I am pretty sure I never defended that. I bet Abefroman can tell you my exact words on the topic.
So based on your link, there were 27 positive reviews, 35 mixed reviews, and 1 negative. What point were you trying to make?Seems like the irrational hate of those postersspread to the presstoo.
They should really apologize about that.
Well mixed tends to be garbage in terms of video games review. If your game gets a 6/10, that's "mixed" for Metacritic and that means garbage for the reviewer. Anything under 8 is meh, under 7 is bad.
I don't think people are being irrational at all. These guys had a huge budget, made promises they didn't keep, and blew a great opportunity to bring in millions by poor management and terrible decision making. It's not like the blueprint on what to do and what not to do isn't out there. It is.. These self absorbed fucks ignored it. Can you really sit there and pretend that these guys didn't realize they only get one shot at a launch and if they miss it, the game will have a ridiculous exodus in a matter of months? I mean, how do you excuse that? They put themselves in a terrible position. Now they have Wildstar taking their subs and Archeage about to take a hell of a lot more. They may have made money, but they didn't come close to capitalizing on this games true potential,l and that alone should get the senior management fired.
