With mech games, the people who want the aesthetics of a mech game without the main alleged downside sadly outnumber the people who want the mech games of old.
I know, it's like when I tell people the real reason why that gundam overwatch game shut down was because Overwatch already exists, and to most people if you want to play overwatch you go play overwatch. Sorta the same thing with Hawken, I remember people saying it'll be able to "compete" with Mechwarrior Online... and yet one game is died for entirely predictable reasons and the other is somehow still going, went into mantinence mode, then came back putting more maps weapons and other content in.
With mech games, the people who want the aesthetics of a mech game without the main alleged downside sadly outnumber the people who want the mech games of old.
There's too many mech games that are just FPSs with robot skins, there's no sense that you're actually piloting/fighting 100 ton steel machines.
I know, it's like when I tell people the real reason why that gundam overwatch game shut down was because Overwatch already exists, and to most people if you want to play overwatch you go play overwatch. Sorta the same thing with Hawken, I remember people saying it'll be able to "compete" with Mechwarrior Online... and yet one game is died for entirely predictable reasons and the other is somehow still going, went into mantinence mode, then came back putting more maps weapons and other content in.