Mechwarrior Developer GOES BROKE | Piranha Games Suffers MASSIVE LAYOFFS After New Game FAILS

[@SoSezTheDude]

Funny how the timeline of "diversity and inclusion" has gone from "we just want to be included", to "We deserve a voice in every space", to "If you don't agree with us, you should be silenced", to "Everything has to be queer, even giant robot fighting games". Way to prove how necessary gatekeeping is!

[@lunasakara7306]

You forgot the last and final step: "REEE YOU CAN'T REPLACE US" - we can, and are!

[@ionrogue7080]

You just basically outlined the typical Marxist progression that's been going on for like 3 centuries now. This is why people bring it up and why it constantly fails. It's not conspiracy. It's good to see more people see it, though. 👍

[@RemOmni]

Yeah they "everything has to cater to me" mindest is a terrible one.

[@JohnMartinez-rl2ou]

Retired Daishi/Dire Wolf pilot here. 😢 Once upon a time it was amazing back in the day 🥺

[@DavidMISAMISAMISACook]

Haven't taken my Madcat/Timberwolf for a spin in a while. Agree Loved this IP

[@PrimalistOptimus]

Everything woke turns to shite. Also, Skittles Mafia injection destroys everything.

[@Coconut-219]

Massive brand damage, shallow games, and overmonetization.

[@headp3]

Mechwarrior 5 is a great BT/MW game and fits in the franchise lore perfectly with zero DEI. Mechwarrior Clans on the otherhand...

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Those are bubblegum colors, which is no surprise since it represents the bloat bubble popping.

[@saladinbob]

Those bubblegum colours are lore accurate.

[@gbblackknight]

Battletech 2018 PC game (different Dev team from Piranha) forced us to pick pronouns in the character creation. A modder edited it out. One of the lead devs, a trans of course, hard coded it back so that it's permanent. Mech 5:Mercs, and Mech 5:Clans were largely unaffected by woke things within the games themselves. MW5 Mercs was an Unreal store exclusive for a year and a half before coming to Steam. That certainly hurt sales a LOT too, but their great DLC's that sold well kept impressing enough to make more.

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

The Battletech game while good pissed me off royally with there pronoun crap.

[@riptors9777]

The different DLCs where anything but great, they mostly where bare minimum in terms of content (you where lucky if a DLC added a single new mech chassis) and barely added anything to the game. The only reason it sold so well was because mods like YAML required each and every DLC. Infact the only reason MW5 is enjoyable is because it has an active modding scene that has added more content in free mods then piranha has added in several paid for DLCs

[@gbblackknight]

@@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148 Yeah, same here. I would have been less mad if that weirdo dev hadn't blocked modders from changing it.

[@gbblackknight]

@@riptors9777 Yeah, very true. I mis-spoke. The DLC's brought needed features and fixes that should have been there in the beginning. Modders definitely finished the game for them haha. I do have to commend the dev team for allowing mods and even including Steam's Workshop as convenience.

[@riptors9777]

@@gbblackknight I think the modability had more to do with them using UE then actively trying to make the game mod friendly XD I mean HBS battletech has some excellent mods and total conversions out there and it runs on a slapped together, unoptimized unity engine. Battletech fans are nothing but inventive to keep their IP alive XD

[@clawofthefallen]

Talks about Battletech, shows an Armored Core on the thumbnail. Yeah, I'm picky about that lil detail.

[@denkerbosu3551]

I knew something was off with the thumbnail, right,, Mechwarrior mechs are more tank based.

[@Emerald_Knight]

That's not a Mad Cat or a Timberwolf

[@Sorain1]

It's the color scheme. Also, AC's could be a third society's take on Omnimechs, provided NEXT's are left out of it. (But then of course I'd think that, I'm the one who tried writing that up as something that could plausibly fit.)

[@enricopaolocoronado2511]

I was gonna say the same. That said, Armored Cores are superior to BattleMechs and OmniMechs.

[@clawofthefallen]

@@Emerald_Knight Funny enough, Studio Nue (Shoji Kawamori's studio) redesigned the Mechs for the japanese tabletop version of Battletech and they are Proto Armored Cores. There's also an AWESOME japanese version of a Timberwolf for the Box Art of Battletech for Snes. Worth checking out. But yeah, Battletech and Armored Core have History.

[@arosemenaa]

Mechwarrior 4 (and expansions) were the last good games. Miss the good ol days.

[@riptors9777]

Should have made better mechwarrior games, you make "minimal viable products" you get minimal viable sales...

[@headp3]

Thank god! Hopefully whoever gets the IP treats it with the respect a 30+ year franchise deserves! Side note hint hint Disney. 2 DEI's for one burn😂

[@captainspire9094]

Remember when the biggest debate we'd have was whether we need that new LBX 20 or ERPPC cannon on an urbie mech?

[@spookieboogi6161]

I once hated gatekeepers now i support them keep that gate there’s a reason it was a job back in the day.

[@snowbush7990]

I think part of the issue is that Piranha games have just been poor steward of the Mechwarrior franchise as a whole. Five was OK but the DLCs were buggy and generally content poor, trying to mimic the Mechwarrior online 'content drip' of small purchases. Clans, it sounds like, was just content poor in general, short for its asking price and then trying to sell basic features as a DLC. Its a double combination of someone Catalyst maybe playing Agenda Games along with the products being subpar

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Yup. These devs are greedy scumbags.

[@LolnogoogleNotgivingyoumyname]

Toxic positivity is a big part of the fire burning the gaming studios and their IP's to the ground. You've gotta be able to acknowledge your failures and learn from them.

[@dragoon0705]

The screenshot in the thumbnail...is from Armored core

[@Absolynth]

Thats very sad to hear, I definitely enjoyed reuniting with Mechwarrior in MW5 after 20 years! Even bought all the DLCs and enjoyed them. Would have supported Clans but don't have 9th gen yet. I'm surprised to hear Clans didn't sell well :( I know mileage varies when it comes to players tolerance for Pirhana.

[@II-zw7vw]

It was actually quite a good game with no woke. The failtastic greedy DLC that came out is probably what doomed it, plus the lack of sandbox gameplay like MW5 made it a very quick experience with no reason to replay.

[@riptors9777]

The lack of playable mechs, no freeplay, weird user-unfriendly mechlab, cringeworthy cutscenes (i mean the clans where allways cringe but the choice of voice actors and the weird uncanny valley models also didnt help) And funnily enough.. Clans was their most polished game to date... and the only one that wasnt a complete catastrophe at launch.

[@DarkFenix2k5]

Yeah, absence of sandbox put me off. I'd had great fun playing the career mode in MW5, my main gripe was the lack of clans and other higher tech (something I fixed with mods). What I wanted from MW5 Clans was a similar experience, but updated to improve on MW5's gameplay loop and include the best era in Battletech. Instead we got a full price game with a pint-sized linear campaign. It's the sort of thing I'd have expected to be a DLC in MW5. Frankly if they'd instead made it a full on expansion to MW5, bringing it forward in year, giving a linear campaign, but allowing us to play a 3050+ career mode too... I'd have been willing to pay quite a price. But as a tiny little standalone with no replay value? Nah, not in this economy.

[@curliousoakshield]

Never forget.. Predatory monetization is, in fact, part of DEI

[@riptors9777]

@@curliousoakshield Nah.. paradox entertainment had that down to a T way before the first wokey came up with the idea of DEI XD

[@curliousoakshield]

@riptors9777 idk... lol

[@treevenewson]

I've been playing BattleTech Tabletop since 1988. BTech has gone woke in the extreme. I don't buy anything BTech anymore.

[@Tiberius233]

I played it. The game itself wasn’t woke. In fact, it followed the lore in most Ways the problem is that the developers are not a major corporation and Battletech is being controlled by abusive woke idiots. I think the problem is that “Clans” came out on game pass and there was no reason to buy it, and the failure of its DLC killed any chance of a short time profit margin and that’s all that matters to corporation leaders. It makes me sad because piranha games is the reason why BattleTech has been making a return to Video gaming.

[@riptors9777]

MW5 launched in a horrendous state. The game was clearly unfinished at launch. The main story was absolute cringe, you had a total of 2 NPCs on your ship you could talk to (when the story told you to talk to them) the respawn system for enemies was so broken, enemies spawned directly behind you. Your npc lance members would constantly shoot you or destroy defense objectives by waltzing right through them and was generally completly inebt at even hitting enemy forces. The different DLCs barely aleviated this state over the years, and each sold for 15-20 dollars/euros for voiced over missions that mostly came out of the random map generator only that someone hit the "save" button and called it a day so the map they generated was permanent... but they sold because mods required them. Ill say that YAML and Merctech have done more for the salesnumbers of the different DLCs then Piranha games themselves. Wokism however did indeed have nothing to do with it. Piranha is simply not a good development studio with a very bad rep. wich they (deservedly) gained from how they treated Mechwarrior online back in the day.

[@adrianocs4]

I was especting clanner pilots as main characters, not a group of genZ adolescents. Also optimization was so bad i had to refund the game.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

@@riptors9777 exactly. The game was trash

[@Dj-Mccullough]

No, I bought it on steam, and mechwarrior 5 clans wasnt exactly "Woke" but they didnt follow the lore . Smoke jaguar clan, are Crusaders, dedicated to SCOURING the innersphere clean of "scum", they are BADGUYS. The game treats them as though they have WARDEN clan intentions. (the ideological opponents OF Crusaders)

[@DpNemo]

go woke, go broke is proven right once again

[@ionrogue7080]

Dude, they made the last one, too, grindie. It took forever to acquire the equipment to go into the 3rd act. I gave up cuz it's just mission after mission for hours on end.

[@Dj-Mccullough]

Pour one out for Battletech. She was a glorious Franchise and IP.

[@ShardDeVir]

Battletech will survive.

[@headp3]

You do know about BT advanced 62 right? Not to mention the fans like me who still fill out spreadsheets and throw dice that will always play in this franchise. Regardless if there is a video game to play. My god BT/MW survived Games Workshop and the Dark Saga bookline.

[@joet7136]

How many times do they have to be taug....oh forget it. They'll never learn.🤣🤣🤣

[@TimWebb-it3ks]

Nah, battletech started talking about woke crap, woke characters, trans characters, and started adding literature to the lore. I don't want that in my community. I don't want these people who call me a fascist near these games i typically cherish. Its painful for everyone there isn't really a way to move forward until they stop this garbage.

[@Oreo_cakester]

Yaaaai!! The old intro is back!!! LET'S GOOOO

[@Hawlsey]

So sad... so many games being destroyed by this garbage... just hoping someone down the road will be able to salvage everything after the fire sale :|

[@rex25k]

Mods ban gamers. Gamers ban studios (from their money).

[@206Zelda]

From what I've heard the actual games were going downhill just in terms of how they were played and set up, with gamepass and DLC, and when the communities playing the game weren't investing as much into them, THAT'S when the developers started trying to appeal to the gender-politics to get an extra lucrative incentive. This is the kind of boomerang that doesn't come back to sender in a favorable way. Of course that's me parroting what I've heard down the grapevine, and people who have been keeping up with these studios and game series will have more insight than me. There is no effect without a cause, so if droves of faithful gamers are leaving the studio and the IP behind, it's for a sensible reason against a nonsensical gamble.

[@Ross-v9j4k]

Must have had some horrendous marketing as well. I've played every MechWarrior release except that one and I've purchased the majority of them.

[@sep0319]

Lol... I have a simpler explanation - Company Banked on Clanners buying the game not realizing that the children of Kerensky are not as numerous.... Now had they made DLC for the Battle of Twycross, Wolcott, Pandora, Luthien and Eventually Tukayidd - that would have been a different story.

[@PlatformUser85]

battletech table top is handled by a completely different company than the video games. battletech/mechwarrior rights are split between microsoft owning all things video game related and topps who licensed the tabletop to catalyst

[@ShardDeVir]

Good thing, that BS didn't affect old MechWarrior 4.

[@PamelaPhillips-ed9sl]

Grumpy Grandpa here. More layoffs coming. Did I not tell you this would play out. When will you learn your lesson.😂😂😂😂

[@Cowboycomando54]

So Mechwarrior 5 has had a rocky time. First the initial sales were lack luster for Mercanaries due to canceling steam release and being locked away as an Epic games store exclusive. Even after a year later once the game became available on steam, it was in need of significant work, especially with the AI lance mates. As a whole Battletech is in a weird spot due to how spread out the various owners of the IP are. Currently Catalyst Games Labs, who has the license from Topps to make plastic miniatures and source/rule books, has been frustrating and alienating fans. From firing one of the most influential authors for the setting and refusing to pay royalties (over allegations made by a mentally ill person stalking him), forcing LGBTQ content into the setting, attempts to retcon one of the most influential characters in the setting for diversity sake, to failing to fulfill Kickstarter pledge rewards, poor miniature quality, and terrible shipping times and costs. Fortunately the core fanbase for Battletech is very strong and resilient, having survived the death of the original IP owners FASA, and have been producing incredible fan content that blows both of the Catalyst backed fan compilations out of the water.

[@mattjohnson8585]

That studio (piranha) is pretty small to start with. And no, it didn't have a lot of controversy. Even saw a video on my feed the other day about writers doing good stuff. Don't know about the other pieces, but it's owned by Microsoft, so I'm sure there's some stuff happening somewhere.

[@apex6186]

I don't know if that's so much about being woke or more about the absolutely insane costs of real estate in Vancouver with generally high Canadian taxes

[@ServiusTheBear]

I love Mechwarrior. Then I never looked at the community I just played the game and enjoyed it. Confused what new people it was looking for. I just feel that companies should just stick with one Style only. Also Make for PC then for console. Console should always be Secondery in my view and no Exclusives ether. Also KEEP MULTIPLAYER OUT OF SINGLE PLAYER! It was done in the past it can be done today!

[@kenshinhimura9387]

The game failed because it has no online multiplayer. We literally begged them for a MechWarrior Online 2 for over a decade and they ignored us.

[@sdgamer1860]

said it before and will say it again, how have they not learned yet that DEI doesn't sell? I won't be surprised if we hear something like this about Games Workshop who actually does care about the money and now........ yeah

[@utrock5067]

I almost read it as Piranha Bytes.

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

I like that name...

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 oretty cool, actually

[@piranhapout]

Had to be first on this one, since you're discussing Piranha Games 😂

[@grygaming5519]

Battletech (and Mechwarrior) will survive its stewards. The problem is that MW5 Clans broke cannon to an extent. It didnt do well because it broke cannon horribly. Mainly around the 5 main characters in the game is where the cannon was altered enough to fit their story. There was no true traitor until the Battle of Tukayyid, so they altered the story enough to create that yes there were clanners jumping ship after realizing "they were the baddies". When the reality and actual cannon the majority of clanners who turned to the other side was more based on their culture of treating captured warriors. The simple story was pretty much tell the story from the side of the clans and upon the Battle of Luthien your character and those in your unit get KIA with the story flipping to the other side talking about how they saved the system and drove back a unknown invader. The story wrote itself and bonus points there was still one major battle with a character that sets off the whole attack the clans to the homeworld...but nooo none they had to draw outside the lines. Ever since BLP left the stories have gone down hill.

[@FerrousAradicen]

They kept trying to repackage and sell the same game three times in a row with slight insignificant changes that no one wanted.

[@206Zelda]

It works decently for Call of Duty, apparently, but you can see the angle the company was trying to go for. Too bad they didn't have that AAA cushion to protect them from the backlash.

[@HaloblackopsTenken]

Nice! You used the old intro

[@JackMeoff-zr4uo]

Jeez..they make video games about giant robots..that should print money! How do you screw up that bad!!!!

[@turk88]

i held off for YEARs from buying MW:5 because i wanted PGI to fail and lose the license. I am hopeful eventually a better dev takes over Mechwarrior. Full Disclosure i have a gold skin for MW:O so i am to blame of why PGI survived, so i am to partly blame for them lasting this long ....

[@Starwolfy8240]

My dad bought into it was supposed to have a pilot named after him the launch was bad as the game was mid utilizing a hard point system ruined any creativity this is someone who has decades into the lore and original prints its sad that even clans look okay but didn't fill the genre it needed .

[@StarscreamSigma]

Talk about being eaten alive from the inside-out. Not surprising if they ODed on the cool-aid that is DEI.

[@riptors9777]

Their games had no woke elements in them and where very true to the original canon. What brings Piranha games down is that they simply arent a good developer. Their games are shallow, bare minimum and the DLC is overpriced and underdelivers in terms of features. Often buggy as hell on release and left for modders to fix it. Piranha games is also notorious for bad customer relations (directly insulting their playerbase and belitteling them on their forums), overpromising and underdelivering and being greedy as hell (They sold "gold" clan mechs for the mechwarrior online game back in the day, for 300+ dollars, went against promises they made to the player base several times like 3rd person mode or cooling pods etc. etc.)

[@mogadeet6857]

Yeah, I couldn't play Mechwarrior. Despite my best intentions.

[@hexenhammer483]

Talking about MechWarrior Online and only MWO. I'm a founder player for MWO. The biggest complaint I and many others have had about the game are strictly related to game mechanics. In my opinion MWO failed because of specific game mechanics. Side note. Explaining what Battlectech and MechWarrior is to none players, is a convoluted mess. Its one of those situations where it makes perfect sense to fans but requires a lot of duct tape wrapped around the head for everyone else to understand.

[@riptors9777]

Hello fellow founder! There where lots of issues with MWO besides game mechanics. No 3rd person view... no cooling pods... faction warfare being out "just 90 days from now", the "golden" clan mech package for 300+ dollars etc etc. But most damning was their flippant attitude to people pointing out obvious and very game impacting flaws on the forums. What was it again? "living on an island"? Something like that. Also who could forget the "mimimal viable product" bit... after they completly abandoned their 4 "pillars" of game design. Piranha games simply isnt a good developer. Neither in skill, talent or customer interactions. They neither have any ambition (MW5 was a shallow puddle of a game wich barely deserved the moniker "sandbox" at launch) for their games, nor do they seem to be capable to overcome this "minimal viable product" standard they set for themselves years ago with MWO. Honestly im surprised they held out so long without having to lay off anyone. That just shows how willing battletech fans are to endure BS if it means the IP is kept alive XD There is however one thing i will allways be thankfull for that piranha did: Kicking Harmony Golds ass and putting them in their place. It was so satisfying seeing the return of the Unseen into Battletech media.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

@@riptors9777 MechWarrior Online is successful. Where do you think the money came from for MechWarrior 5 and MechWarrior 5 Clans? It came from MechWarrior Online. A game people still play today. These scumbag devs ignored us for over a decade when we asked for MechWarrior Online 2. Instead they took all the money from the popular online game, and wasted it on these single player games that nobody wants to play.

[@riptors9777]

@@kenshinhimura9387 "successfull" doesnt mean good. Raid shadow legends is also hella successfull... would you say that whale fishing mobile trash is good? XD Also MWO fills a niche that no one else has a claim to. What happens when a better competitior comes along you can see with overwatch and marvel rivals. Its not exactly difficult to be the big boy on the block despite being a dwarf if youre the only one around. Also if MWO was so successfull, then why does piranha have to lay off people months after the release of their latest game? Doesnt make that much sense.

[@kla4600]

MWO has some great gameplay fundamentals. But the faction play element was under-realized. That's a ship that sailed, though, circa 2015.

[@Gleidison652]

I didn't play Clans but i play Mech5 heavy moded and i love it. I don't see any woke crap, or at least i haven't noticed.

[@MS-gk9vv]

Really sad I grew up with the Mechwarrior series. :( And yeah the game itself was not bad.

[@scrimpishimp4857]

"Clans" wasn't woke, persay. It just lacked substance and has zero replay value. "Mercenaries" is still the superior game of the two.

[@Blackdawn1975]

Incompetence killed mwo

[@thequietman5934]

I'm playing MW5: Clans right now and there's nothing egregious yet but I can say that it was an odd choice to have you play Clan Smoke Jaguar.

[@althegamer6606]

ITS GONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEE !

[@acegear]

i guess too many dead weights just ubiturd devs getting paid to do nothing

[@busterdagger4797]

The game did have some great cut scenes

[@AndreaFromTokyo]

Game was woke, loved the games before the last one ( which already had a girl boss as main support but was not too in the face)

[@BlockdParty]

I got the game it's pretty good although I never beat it

[@jarosawknas8947]

I did not played but game was rather pro lore, not woke.

[@MrVeryfrost]

Have they fixed spawning enemies?

[@adamsee4144]

Sadly, no. You need mods to fix the spawns

[@rybuds47]

I returned the game after i saw the awful character design. Thoes were most definately not vat grown supersoldiers.

[@Nexuzz77]

Bought MW5 and Clans, not woke games and I found them fun and close to the old Mechwarrior games, but its just such a niche interest group for the mech games. Piranha Games was the only studio to really do anything with after Microsoft sat on the IP for years and did nothing with it. MWO was fun as well but again niche market with some game mechanics being clunky and to be honest a really shitty elitist crowd that played it drove some away.

[@Tooznoze]

Check out Paizo's recent foot-in-mouth epic fail.

[@sethwing1725]

I actually played this game until its not fun anymore. You started off good then the waves and waves of heavy mechs, no way to heal or replenish and to top it off your ai companions are dumb asses smashing through buildings.

[@Super-wk6jx]

Im not sure about this. The marking is just abysmal i never heard of the mechwarrior game and i like mechwarrior.

[@Dave96939]

The game wasn't woke but whoever made Spears really ruined the immersion for me - overweight voice actor out of breath heavy breathing into the mic, no personality, trying to talk like a badass spewing cliche after cliche, lazy made model wasn't even animated the first year before updates

[@5w1gg1ty]

Bro, Spears is voiced by Elias Toufexis, i.e. Adam Jensen from Deus Ex, Andriy Kobin in Splinter Cell, Gabriel Nowak in Rainbow Six. Also, he's anything but overweight.

[@younger544]

It wasn't woke (The video games anyway). It was actually really good. It wasn't the best, but Mechwarrior is VERY niche. I totally believe there just weren't enough sales. Everyone who was a fan bought it, but that just wasn't enough of them.

[@aoiminase]

Really? Iguazu?

[@kelz702]

Dope intro

[@zetsumeinaito]

TBH, I never went back to Mechwarrior after playing Armored Core.

[@justsomeguywithlasereyes9920]

Welcome to the fold, Raven.

[@iCandy212]

Armored Core made Mech Warrior obsolete since 1997 👌. I would argue that the Armored Core Series made every Mech game that’s on the market right now obsolete

[@puff4313]

I just want a titan fall 3...I have 850 hrs in Armored cored too, Its the most addictive pvp for me personaly

[@adamsee4144]

Armored Core is so damn good. I appreciate both AC and MW for what they are. I one day hope to breed these two series to make the ultimate mecha franchise.😈

[@kenshinhimura9387]

@@iCandy212 nope. People still play Mechwarrior Online

[@jackthetech5105]

Piranha could have invested in MWO, but didnt and are still dragging the corpse of an outdated Cryengine for too long. The Mechwarrior games they built are the "minimally viable product". Yeah its a Mechwarrior game... yeah it's Mechs doing Mech things, mostly, but thats it...

[@ambrigalist]

great video

[@adamsee4144]

To my knowledge, there is no wokeness in MW5 itself, and I'm an advent player of it (heavily modded). However, MW5 Clans, while graphically superior, had less to offer as a game, and allegedly could not be modded like MW5. I only played Clans for maybe an hour before I was annoyed with the controls and refunded it. This news will undoubtedly also have a negative effect on MechWarrior Online as well. As for CGL, their wokeness problem has been known for a few years now, and may have hurt MW5 and Piranha's reputation as a result of being tied to the Battletech franchise. But I honestly can't say that with any real certainty.

[@joeross4942]

Played Mechwarrior 5, Frankly at launch it was kinda mid, but after some DLC dropped, then a few dozen high end mods were made and bam you are in for a good time.

[@adamsee4144]

Very much agreed!

[@adrianr2746]

So basically it's shit till fans fix it? Yeah must have been a great game lol

[@johnathanjamesjohnsonjr7408]

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[@jackthetech5105]

Would you like to buy a Mech Pak..?

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Nope. Not when I know it won't go towards making MechWarrior Online 2.

[@ShardDeVir]

What do you mean? Why should I buy mechs, when they are in Mek Pack for MW4: Mercs?

[@saladinbob]

This game was in no way, shape or form woke, and this story makes no sense because it was on the front page of the steam charts at launch and has mostly positive reviews. Clans is by far the best Mechwarrior game we've seen. It was never going to make AAA money because it's not a AAA game but it has superb VA and a decent story behind it and was largely bug free.

[@TimWebb-it3ks]

You must've missed all the woke literature and characters, ntm the woke community managers poisoning the community. Its a self-fixing problem. Everyone knows who they are. They just have to see themselves out.

[@DanielCasilli]

Ooooo!

[@ocsaw2000]

I was a huge Mechwarrior fan going back to MW2. I turned my back on MW5 because it was an Epic Games Store exclusive. Now I wouldn't take a copy if it was free on steam, They are dead to me....

[@kenshinhimura9387]

same. That's what the vast majority of gamers did. Then we played it for free on Gamepass for PC.

[@TheCosta5000]

Second

[@brunnerwarsavage4242]

It went woke and now it is going broke

[@brunnerwarsavage4242]

I was a proud founder of MWO, but when they went woke and force the woke ideas, I left it behind, the woke only destroys