All anyone needs to know when blaming the community for Illfonics lack of focus in this game is as follows;
EVERYONE begged for a multi-pred vs bigger fireteam mode.
Illfonic made Clash: a king of the hill mode… and to this day, the only other mode in the game.
A few players took it upon themselves to create a 2v6 mode out of Clash because no one asked for it and it sucks. It wasn’t ideal, but the players made it work, and it looked like what we’ve been asking for.
News got to Illfonic, who actually streamed themselves following this setup and having fun with something players themselves came up with FOR them.
Illfonic then said they weren’t going to put it in the game anyways, and instead made private matches. They figured we can just keep playing pretend in privates since we were doing that already anyways.
Down the player count went. Not because of the forum, not because of the community, but because if illfonic was a person theyd be riding the short bus with a helmet.
So when you wanna blame players for not coming together and praising illfonic for doing the bare minimum… remember, we tried that already. When you wanna blame the forum for shooting down pipe dreams, remember, it’s because we tried that too.
To this day they won’t even add flat black shaders to preds. It’s a weekend’s worth of work at most for illfonic. Doesn’t matter how many of us say we want it, doesn’t matter how nice we are to each other, they won’t do it because they don’t care about what the community wants. They’re gonna do what they want to do and we can like it or leave.
Down the player count goes lol they’ll never keep a dedicated fanbase by babysitting forums for ‘toxic behavior’. They have to actually give a shit about the game we’re playing. Focus on the game, not the forum. Us teasing or fighting each other doesn’t change the product. Never will. CODMW2 was the pinnacle of toxicity in gaming, no matter how hurt people’s feelings got, the game was fucking amazing and no one stopped playing because of racial slurs or offensive remarks.
This has been my Ted talk. Thank you for listening.
