Piranha: MechWarrior's F2P model not pay-to-win

@(Unverified)

If I ever plan to play this game, the first thing I'd do would be to find you and shoot you down if you did that.

@Utakata That's perfectly reasonable. I do the same with pink haired gnomes.

@(Unverified)

"If I am a paying customer, I demand that I get to spray paint a pic of my wang onto my battlemech."

I would pay for that...lol not exactly that. I don't think a your wang on the side of my mech would do it justice, but custom logos/coat of arms would be nice. An in game app for rendering and submission, followed by a CSR review doesn't seem unreasonable.

Lol, now that I think about sending rendering of my wang to a CSR for them to look at would worth $5 to. ;)

@(Unverified)

*Looks at heads mounted on my wall of all the various Horde player characters I've collected over the years that's tried that*

...I guess you wern't one of them. Heh.

@(Unverified)

I don't know how you'd expect anyone else to be able to see that...

@Yellowdancer
The mech genre as a whole seems to have died, which is unfortunate. Never got really into Mechwarrior because I was into the smaller competitor Earthsiege (and its sequels).

Its unfortunate, theres something satisfying about big robot combat. I guess its just not as fast paced as the shooter genre.

@KvanCetre BT universe and Gameplay universe are likely two very different things, but at the point where the game is set there were VERY few faction specific mechs in the lore. Usually each house would have 1-5 special mechs chaises (read: propaganda tools) and every other unit type was one of the common types, maybe with a special loadout depending on what weapon types are cheaper for them to produce locally.

@Angn
Couldn't agree more. Yes that particular forum entry about no P2W has been conveniently removed. It's not hard to fathom that if someone is buying even an XP bonus item, they are buying an advantage over another player.

The other one I really like is the crowd that say it isn't P2W when you can get the item in game, only problem is you have 0.001% chance of gettting it.

And any game that has a PvP component is where the F2P 'convenience' items really stand out as giving an advantage over others. $60 gun in APB anyone.

@SnarlingWolf I don't know. I've recently delved into the world of MMOFPSs and am befuddled by the enormous choices to spend money on that don't offer extra power in any substantial way.

I talked to a guildie(from another MMO) who plays and he concurs that they do not sell straight forward items that outpower one another based on price points. It's not "Buy this M16 for 10 bucks", "Now buy this M1A that does 100 points more damage per shot for 20 bucks".

It's more like all the guns are very closely aligned and the difference is mainly cosmetic with the guns themselves and then there's a slew of equipment enhancers - better grips, better scopes - that can reduce recoil or steady a sniper shot. But being a game that's twitch based, I can tell you this much - it has not mattered one bit for this noob. I could buy every enhancement for a gun I could think of and it simply wouldn't turn me into an uber shooter, let alone a slightly better shooter.

If combat is primarily twitch-based, in Mechwarrior, and it utilizes ground cover and all the strategic implementations that come with varying weapons, like lasers, short-range missiles, long-range missiles and so on, it may work well.

@mmogaddict

I agree, I think the World of Tanks model would be perfect for this game. I wouldn't mind seeing Wargaming give it a shot, actually...

@mmogaddict

There were Mechs in WWII?