Please Reconsider MSQ Changes

[Krotoan]

Yes and no, ....

Now do I bother to respond to you and have you ignore any points I bring up? You've apparently found it worth it to comment on my ONE point you have an opinion on.

Fine, let's be cordial and respond then.
I can make no assumptions about the separation of story and level pots. I said "They seemed". That was the marketing they employed. This is exactly what my friends did in fact. They paid for the pots because they wanted to play along side me immediately and without the pot I would have had to wait the week or more it would have taken them to catch up alone since I mainly get to play on weekends and couldn't help them. Personally I think the separation of pots may be for maximization of profit and it also allowed for more leveling pots to be sold later once the restriction was lifted. I don't think the decision to separate them had anything to do with this last patch and vice versa. Pots came into play quite a while ago while this change likely didn't require much development time at all.

I don't know what's best for new players no and have never said I knew, but if I was new and I wanted to watch the story I know I'd want to be able to without having to research on the net how to get that done. I'd want the game to make that happen without extra input especially if I've been being led like this since the beginning of the game. I was lucky enough to experience the MSQ when it came out and running through it as it was designed to be run was amazing for me. Likewise you cannot speak for all veterans but are voicing what you would like someone to do for you, and are considering what other veterans would have concerns with. However as another veteran I'm disagreeing with you.

"Minority, a lot." .. waiting on hard data you don't have.
Yes people were stopping people from viewing cutscenes, it was either skip, or be lost, or LEAVE and try and join another run and ask if THEY'D wait, or find out how to use PF and sit around gathering a PF that was willing to wait.

Now let me say this very important thing. You have absolutely no rights to anything here. You have signed an agreement when you clicked OK that not only are you going to play by the publishing companies rules, they reserve the right to cease providing access to this game at any moment for any reason. This isn't an opinion either, this is legally true. Now, whether they DO this or not is how the company is perceived and public backlash for them choosing how they utilize this power over you results in their popularity and sales going up or down. The idea that you have a right to any of this sounds entitled and makes me think you don't understand that you're utilizing a service provided by a company who owns all aspects of it. Are they infallible? No. Do we owe them our gratitude and loyalty? Heck no. This is a business transaction and to perceive it as anything else is harmful to your expectations and will disappoint you in the end.
Now this doesn't mean you need to shut up and "my way or the highway" it, that's not my intent. But saying you have a RIGHT to something like this is just untrue.

I've been in this thread from the beginning and have seen nothing but unsubstantiated claims about majorities and personal claims of insane queue times... and I've also seen many claiming the opposite.. which ones are right? Perhaps you skipped the part I wrote last time about this but: This thread is a very poor representation of the playerbase.

I Don't CARE how many people agree with me, this isn't high school and I don't need to win any popularity contests. This is my opinion and my take on the situation. I don't need a "safe" thread for my "unpopular" opinion. I have no issues with people disagreeing with me and I welcome actual arguments for or against the changes.

I don't get why people refuse to acknowledge SE's statement about it for what it is - acknowledgement that this change was bad. Queues don't even have to be dead, this is SE saying in no uncertain terms "we are not pleased with the way things are after this change". And mind you this happened two weeks after the change was introduced, so whatever numbers they're seeing, whatever it's low queue numbers or just the extreme backlash in the many threads on the forums, it's so potent that SE themselves want to do something about it. It's like you're given proof that your stance isn't infallible and then you're performing any number of logical gymnastics to pretend it doesn't invalidate your stance when it does. Is it the doom and gloom predicted before where this became a Mentor roulette only queue?
We don't know. So your queue popped after 10 minutes, congratulations, it doesn't mean anything. Every single person here can only speak from their own personal experiences but that is also to say none of us have anything saying it didn't. As all of us agree, SE has the numbers, SE hears the feedback, and they decided, at the very least, that the awards aren't enough. Bury your head in the sand all you want, that's the truth of the matter right now.

I agree they saw something they think needed adjustment. I've never denied that. I just don't have your confidence in the fact that it's exactly one thing (specifically that the change was "bad" )and will continue to repeat that we cannot and will not know exactly why they do anything without an official announcement or published numbers. No uncertain terms would be an outright declaration of what had happened and a reversion of the changes. When this happens you can say that. Until then it's all conjecture and it requires absolutely no "mental gymnastics" to sit back and see what happens without yelling that the sky is falling.