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Apparently I'm nostalgic for my childhood in the 90s - I loved both the MechWarrior / BattleTech and Wing Commander / Freelancer franchises. MWO has been somewhat disappointing, but still fun enough, while Star Citizen looks to be coming along very well.

http://mwomercs.com/

https://robertsspaceindustries...

And I wonder what the heck the submitter / article author is smoking?

I read the link from the summery http://www.gamefront.com/mechwarrior-online-forum-ragesplosion/ (how to write an article!) and links from that. One thing I noticed is everybody on the user side is back tracking, this thread http://mwomercs.com/forums/topic/132638-3rd-person-an-update-and-apology-feedback-thread/ while locked after three pages is full of edits.

How about the part where the guy doing the "Ask the Devs" thread regularly take on questions that he answers with something along the lines of I don't know.
Or that the Community Manager's only apparent contribution is getting big names in the "Let's Play" and Game reviewing to make videos of the game...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIn-im_tWEg Reference Video
Or that instead of a Valve style change log the updates instead focus almost exclusively on purchasable content, there wasn't even a foot note when all the weapon sound effects were changed.
Do I even need to bring up the cluster fuck that is ECM? Bringing in the Raven mech whose role as a dedicated ECM platform is somewhat undercut by the fact that only one of the three versions can mount ECM at all was a bad idea made worse by the fact that ECM was totally overpowered to the point of totally disrupting the team alliance indicators making it impossible to tell who you were shooting at.
Also to remind you the Hero Mech design are Cash money only variants different from any acquired with in game currency that also have a bonus to exp and in game currency.
Really though the main gist of the post is that PGI has failed to keep people happy or to even make enough empty promises to hold off full out rioting, Remember back a few months ago when PGI went ahead and deleted over half the official forums because it was getting unruly, Or we can look at the bottom half of this post http://mwomercs.com/news/2013/08/730-september-creative-developer-update where they admit things are getting so abusive that they are considering calling police on some commentors...
That is not a well managed community, not at all.
I play in a group and have seen several Gold Founders (people who paid $120 to get into the closed beta) walk away in disgust or boredom.
Things are going downhill.

"DRM is not supported anywhere."

Steam DRM
http://store.steampowered.com/

League of Legends (F2P)
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/

Mechwarrior online
http://mwomercs.com/

All MMO's are DRM (world of warcraft, Guildwars 1 + 2, etc).

And this is not a minority of people. More and more games are coming with online tethers/trojan horse.

The Mechwarrior 5 reboot became Mechwarrior online... and most Atlas pilots in Mechwarrior Online suck. MWO in general however is pure epic win. I personally have not had this much fun since Netmech replaced my nightly visits to Virtual World to play in the Tesla II pods.

In any case, it is the same as it always has been. Noobs will grab the biggest slowest mech they can, group all their weapons and try to alpha people, thinking they have an autowin button. They don't. It's not. I can run circles around an assault in my 35 ton light RVN-X2. And once I am behind an assault, it is very easy to stay behind it, and strip off layers of rear torso armor with lasers and streaks. And once the armor is gone, my twin machine guns will crit internals and its all over. OMG so much fun.

http://mwomercs.com/media/video/3CWr3ZUQJeo

MechWarrior Online recently started it's beta, if you're interested.

Anyone else read the title and get excited that it was about the future of "BattleTech" the FASA war/board game?

I also did a double-take. On a site featuring News for Nerds, the editors had to have guessed that the title as-it-stood would have caused a bit of confusion. The closest thing I found to the future of BattleTech(tm) in a quick spot-check of the news was the development of the Mechwarrior Online Free to Play MMO'ish game.