people started getting these ideas of faster matchmaking, but that being the reason is pretty weak and shows the game is not as popular as 4.
then you had a surge in a strange group of people hell bent on taking tdm and guardian away from people. they hated the fact that people were enjoying their 5v5 matches. “those modes shouldn’t even be in ranked argghhhh!”
these guys who want to be “gears commentators” started shoving their opinions as facts. a very elitist group of people and TC ate it up.
guys that have seen me post on here know that i state my preferences but not without understanding another perspective. i even dropped the arguments of the tuning details in favor of an argument about the principle of it and the feedback gathered.
from my standpoint, i know a lot of people who played 4 religiously that dont touch 5. i have gone down that rabbit hole and seen it, and i find it hard to believe that there’s enough population to replace them.
so many people were perfectly fine with previous tunings, 5v5, tdm, guardian, etc
i mean, at this point it is a lost cause seeing TC’s attitude to the feedback. the big tuning thread closed with a “blah blah, see y’all never” response.
TC even hired a new gameplay lead who probably doesn’t know the difference between alternate and tournament control schemes
also, despite the obvious notifications on posts saying this and that person havent ever posted or havent posted in a long time, i still saw “prominent” members here on the forums downplaying it
boiling it down to just a few guys. yeah, just a few guys talking to each other, huh? however, i did see some objective free thinkers who said, “hey, i love the new tuning but there’s no doubt there was a significant amount of backlash and TC should have addressed it better.”
this whole thing is doomed.
