Welp, that's the last thing I expected from my TL;TR rant about this guy an his complete hate towards new players. I don't need a review from a guy who disrespects my entire post by just naming him "sir", as the above post said, it's pretty silly.
Alright, let's break down why you're wrong, and why your post was worth ignoring.
clearly have no idea how this works.
Because clearly being the one of the oldest extant players and having seen literally hundreds of thousands of new players play for a few days across all TTKs is going to leave zero impact on someone's personal experiences, expressed as an opinion. That's right. Opinion.
I think, for all intents and purposes of the development, these low-tier players are currently irrelevant to the game's future success.
So first off, you're getting in DerMax's face for his opinion, for which he has plenty of subjective backing for.
It IS important to make that experience confortable for those "low-tier" players you name, wich may be or not, more or less, doesn't matter, dedicated to the game: a rookie can PERFECTLY be a dedicated person who wants to improve at the game but doesn't have the time or just contributes to the community by posting ideas and reporting bugs on the forums.
If I'm getting your point here, the participation of someone with no time to play the game is valuable because... what? Because it is? They have no time to play, by your own construction, how can they be contributing much of anything? if they were talking to their friends about it, or spending money on MC as Hyginos is suggesting, then you'd have a leg to stand on here. But a) we don't have numbers on new player pay-out and b) that's not the point you're making to begin with.
They deserve attention and they are the reason why the game is gonna grow/already grows (slowly).
False. The population is shrinking (again). They are the reason the population spikes and returns to normal.
We must have new players' attention in order to get more skilled players, everyone dashed through the entire map and when we encountered someone we couldn't dodge anywhere because we were out of fuel, everyone had the bad habit of shooting while standing still, everyone missed every TOW rocket and overheated on front of someone.
True. But only people who actually like the mechanics of Hawken and can come to terms with its skill ceiling stick around. Which is where Dermax's point goes:
Players SteamCharts stat plummeting below 300; the only thing that can save the game is drastic changes — not idling. The more experiments we do with items/internals/mechanics, the better.
He's arguing that something is necessary to broaden the appeal of Hawken, period. Low-tier, medium-tier, high-tier. Some dude picked up Hawken a month ago and was wrecking my fuzzy bunny in like 2 weeks. Haven't heard from him since. I assume it's because the game didn't appeal in the long-term because of its mechanics, server issues, population. And before you latch on to that last word, trying to retain the trickle of players Hawken currently gains is like begging for scraps - the quantity is just not there. A serious population boost is necessary, one that comes with a long-term, backed-to-the-hilt marketing strategy. A strategy that does not make sense while significant chunks of the game are broken or unappealing.
The problem with your post, and why it's worth ignoring, is that you threw a snit-fit at people being called low-tier and ignored the rest of the post. Guess what? They are. We are. You're low-tier. I'm medium-tier. Dermax is high-tier. Who gives a fuzzy bunny. I think low-tier players can be seen as irrelevant because, as you go on to prove, their understanding of the mechanics are stunted and, from an extra-monetary perspective, the only thing they can contribute is either entertainment or insight. There. I just made more sense than your entire argument and framed it as an opinion, backed by facts. As opposed to your post, which claimed facts and backed them with feelings.
Framing low-tier players as irrelevant was the clear expression of an opinion, that you then tried to go ahead and "disprove" somehow by attacking the poster, saying its rude and that we should value low-tier players for no real reason given other than an appeal to our emotions or an even narrower, more limited version of Dermax's argument. And you did it with the fantastically entitled, fedora-doffing, cheetos-smacking redditor opener of "You sir."