Agreed. What it says about Rouge bothers me. I hope this patch was produced by peeps he shoved in a back room and was just to get some content into the game while the real work was done on somthing else.

I for one have become incredibly disgruntled to the point where I am now only logging in to help out newbies who still want to try to enjoy this game and hang out with the friends I have made here.

I am tired of CCP taking the easy way out and intentionally manipulating the player base to try to squeeze a little extra AUR out of them when they would have much better cash flow at the end of the day if they could actually keep a new player around for more than a few matches.

I think they have proven with EVE that they can build a player base if they want to. Even tho they really have no grasp of console players and need to do some learning there they have proven that they will consistently take the easy way out and keep milking vets through lies and only dropping the necessary content to suck in SP and in turn AUR for boosters.

Let's see, boring but flawless.

Boring: Standard old FPS game modes and tropes

Flawless: FPS mechanics.

Game: Titanfall.

CCP would be doing itself a favor by deepening the game play. Tanks wouldn't have to be good at killing infantry if they had other things to do. Likewise scouts wouldn't have to be able to get the same number of kills as a heavy if they had more important things to do than rack up kills.

A wide but shallow game is far more difficult to balance than a deep one. In the shallow game every asset is competing directly with every other and that means balancing widely divergent assets against each other. In our current case that includes balancing a main battle tank against a dropsuit for infantry kills. That's nearly impossible to do if you want to maintain the traditional idea that a tank is a bad ass machine. Deepen the game a bit though and suddenly it's no longer so difficult. Give tanks a different task that infantry can't do and make them far less efficient at killing infantry. With that seperation you can now make them far more difficult to destroy beause they aren't competing in the same space as a suit. They now balance themselves out naturaly and no longer require an artificial vehicle limit. Tanks in Ambush mode would be a non-issue because they wouldn't be good at killing infantry which is the only objective in the mode. Yes you could call one in and roll around, but you may as well just left the match as your side would be one man short.

We don't need more toys that are all expected to do the same thing.

I'll be listening to the Fanfest announcement with an ear toward how they will deepen gameplay. That is the key.