MechWarrior Online developers answer forum questions

PLEAAAAAASE dont suck :c

PvP first is probably so they can get the game out without being mired down with AI coding.

question #1
how much pay to win this game will be?

question #2
what will you do to deal with the community backlash when the game turns out to be pay to win despite all the promises of that not happening?

No PVE? Oh yeah, this is gonna be a blockbuster.

no pve = what? lobbies and pvp queues? How is this different from online versions of mechwarrior from the past?

Rebranded with the latest 2006 graphics money can buy!

They should make Bloodnames a prize for reaching max rank with a player slot. Oh wait, there aren't any Clans yet.

No PvE? You have to be kidding. The scenarios of Battletech, the love of rampaging through the different zones in Mechwarrior, the buildup of interesting stories in the franchise, and none of it will be there at launch?

So if it is just PvP, how does this differ from the free Mechwarrior 4 Arena setup they have now? You can only play so many rounds versus other players before you strive to go venturing out in a wasteland because there is a runaway train carrying precious cargo!

Doing a Battletech version of World of Tanks is the best way of doing it.

Just a PvP Arena Game, I'd bet money the game will either be a raging success as that and so PvE will either never be implemented or it will be put in and be such a sucky afterthought that nobody plays it for the PvE anyway. Then they will come out like Mythic and say everybody wants PvP oblivious as to why their PvE community didn't stay.

The problem is, they will sell better mechs and weapons, they're going to, you know it, they know it, just like World of Tanks, those better mechs and weapons will be bought by the few and they will piss off the many. They will allow players to skip all the effort free players put in to earn their rewards and thus free players will resent them and it will divide the community that sticks around.

Free Players will be "content" for paying players to feel superior to.

Opps, read this...

""[MATT C] Each game spawns its own dedicated server, these are not persistent like WoW, as mentioned that would take us into MMO territory. There is persistent game world information, i.e. match results are communicated to affect the balance of power in the Inner Sphere, who owns what planet etc. but there is no true persistent world, more of a persistent meta-game.""

So basically this is a Solaris like game. ie just player vs player dueling. :( Insead of Dueling, battlefields that you can affect change to planetary faction/ownership etc. The game is "much much" less then it could be.

Kesmai's old MPBT 3025 on GEnie was a "deeper" game since we could invade planets, turn over ownership and if we drove a wedge far enough into one of the other Houses actually attack their capital planet. You could move units etc. That was 20 freaking years ago!

So I went from totally hyped for this game to oh well. :( I want more then a lobby dueling system.

I think making an EVE like game with RTS elements a la Mech Commander would be much better for PVE gaming.

I do find it interesting to see this site covering this game. I mean, don't get me wrong, I for one ame incredibly excited by a new Mechwarrior game with online elements, but at no point in the initial reveal or any information released has there been any indication that it will be an MMO. I'm pleased to see this latest update clarify this by coming straight out and saying "yeah, we're not an MMO." It would be unfortunate for people to start hating it for it not being something it was never trying to be. What they have said so far makes it seem more like a sort of MAG/Global Agenda hybrid. Which could be ace.