speculum jockey |
03-21-2012 11:36 AM |
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Originally Posted by Meusli
(Post 401233)
Don't worry too much, when the patch is eventually released I am sure they will play the game. Being a member of this crazy forum has no bearing on whether you can play it or not.
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Problem being, a lot of people do list "performance" as being a major factor in why they don't play CLOD any more, but right after that they mention content and "fun-factor". Losing a forum member is probably indicative of losing 50-100 non-forum members. This forum only represents a tiny portion of the people who bought CLOD, so a small segment of the forums announcing that they are done with the game could mean hundreds or more have left it forever.
Frame Rates and Flight models are important, but replayability and fun-factor are also just as important as well. Saying, "go back to Halo" or "bye-bye" every time someone has a legitimate complaint will not bring new blood to the genre. Clod, like a person having an operation requires new blood, otherwise it just dies on the table.
I post on another forum with over 150,000 users, and everyone who did buy CLOD who posts there admits that the game is collecting dust in their STEAM library, and not even installed on their PCs. They even admit that doubling the FPS wouldn't make them install the game again because the community is toxic from all the basement dwellers and old Luddites who just want a million planes and a billion buttons to click while they endlessly dogfight in the same 2x2km section. Nobody has even hinted that they will buy the sequel, because they have a moral objection to supporting a company that releases 1/2 finished games and is this "closed mouth" with their community.
CLOD's development cycle is a textbook example of making the wrong decision. . . every single time. From the looks of BOM, they're going to do it again, despite what they have heard from reviewers and non-rabid fans.
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