The lack of communication by Taleworlds on their plans for multiplayer is downright impressive. Something as simple as changing the factions on a duel server becomes a "to do", only for us never to hear about it again and for Taleworlds to forget they ever mentioned it. How long would it have taken to change the factions on the duel server? Probably the same amount of time it would have taken a community manager to write an update saying they decided not to. Duel server factions is something I don't really care about, but the issue here is that this behavior is representative of how they have responded to the community as a whole since the release of Bannerlord.
How long ago was it that Taleworlds told us they were looking into a one life game mode, 9 months? I don't think they've said anything about it since. It seems like they have never even cared about people's opinions on multiplayer. Even when they are making it clear they will be maintaining unpopular mechanics as the core of multiplayer gameplay like the class system, they aren't straightforward about it and give evasive answers along the lines of "we are sure you will appreciate the class system given time!".
Despite North American players pointing out to Taleworlds that adding separate West Coast servers helps no one because the North American community is so small that will only further fracture the small player base remaining, Taleworlds went ahead and added those servers anyway. At this point, new NA players probably think skirmish is a 3v3 game mode.
Which brings me to my main point, after almost a year of completely ignoring most community input, Taleworlds is now taking an aggressive stance against legitimate and well thought out community suggestions. Recently, a thread discussing new game mechanics which would make multiplayer more interesting and immersive was locked for absolutely no reason. Honestly, at this point does Taleworlds even hope to gain players back to multiplayer? It seems like the only drastic actions they will take are in the wrong direction like adding crush through or making throwing weapons stronger as opposed to working on game mechanics to make people love Mount and Blade again. In fact, Taleworlds would rather lock these suggestion threads than see anyone even hope for the game to get better, in light of this I would ask everyone reading this thread to take a look at the recent suggestion thread in question!
How long ago was it that Taleworlds told us they were looking into a one life game mode, 9 months? I don't think they've said anything about it since. It seems like they have never even cared about people's opinions on multiplayer. Even when they are making it clear they will be maintaining unpopular mechanics as the core of multiplayer gameplay like the class system, they aren't straightforward about it and give evasive answers along the lines of "we are sure you will appreciate the class system given time!".
Despite North American players pointing out to Taleworlds that adding separate West Coast servers helps no one because the North American community is so small that will only further fracture the small player base remaining, Taleworlds went ahead and added those servers anyway. At this point, new NA players probably think skirmish is a 3v3 game mode.
Which brings me to my main point, after almost a year of completely ignoring most community input, Taleworlds is now taking an aggressive stance against legitimate and well thought out community suggestions. Recently, a thread discussing new game mechanics which would make multiplayer more interesting and immersive was locked for absolutely no reason. Honestly, at this point does Taleworlds even hope to gain players back to multiplayer? It seems like the only drastic actions they will take are in the wrong direction like adding crush through or making throwing weapons stronger as opposed to working on game mechanics to make people love Mount and Blade again. In fact, Taleworlds would rather lock these suggestion threads than see anyone even hope for the game to get better, in light of this I would ask everyone reading this thread to take a look at the recent suggestion thread in question!