[*M]Comet wrote: Totally different game with totally different feel.
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Look, there's a lot of changes here that I just do not recall anybody asking for. Other than the bullet drop debate awhile back. That's what upsets me the most. I follow the forum regularly too, so don't tell me I missed something.
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You want this game to succeed? Make it the same as DF1 AND get rid of the freeloading players playing for free. I want you to succeed Zup, I sincerely do. But getting pissed off because you don't like feedback that you asked for ain't working. This is my feedback.
First, all those things you mentioned that makes the game worse ere not there until at least hmmm april? that's 4 months of not having those at all, meaning, working the same than df1. Did you say you liked it better than df1? I can't recall. For sure I do recall people asking for those changes I added.
Secondly... it's not that I don't like the feedback. It's that I'm actually adding requested stuff. You see, because you don't see it on the forum it does not mean anything! Df1 has over 10 million registered players. The forum, has less than 1000 active people. Yes, active, meaning people that come here and post and give their opinion. You know I get over 1000 emails per day from different players that never have come to the forum? So there is a huge amount of feedback and requests that I get every day that are never posted here. When people say "the minority asked for this and you added it", it translates to: you don't see my inbox.
The amount of people that requested bullet drop, ww2 airplanes, more accurate shooting (not allowing to shoot between the wings), more reasonable kills because the old timers would destroy the new comers and perpetuate their rank, new tactics because people hate head-to-head combat, and so on... it's huge! Literally, I got complain about most of that stuff on a day to day basis. So I did add those to Elite (months after the first betas!). Now, if you tell me that adding those requests have damaged the game and that's the reason people don't play... I don't go by rumors, I check facts. When Elite was an exact copy of df1... it got 70 people registered. Adding those requested changes... it grew to over 200. Nowadays, it has over 3000 registered, growing the fastest since I added the timer!
Those are facts. Problem? When the new players come to play, everyone is on chat saying: I'm on df1, this one sucks. So new players ask... what's df1? oh, free? let me try... so the result is a perpetuity of players on df1.
So yeah, some changes some people do not like. I can't make everyone happy. But the reason people is not on Elite is NOT any of those reasons and I can prove it easily. I can literally replace Elite with df1 version and I bet my dog, my head and my unborn children that people will stay on df1 still. I have no doubt whatsoever about it. As long as it stays free.
Now switch df1 to pay... and most (yeah, not all) will pick Elite. And it's not me that i'm stubborn. Trust me, if the solution to things is what you are saying: do not change jack shit from df1. I would be the happiest man on earth. hey, I would focus on something else instead of adding requests! The truth is very different from what you have portrayed.