This post is going to be nothing short of a disaster, regarding legacy SM. I originally thought about putting it in spam but it still is in regards to supermechs in general
so be warned - some stuff might piss off people and im sorry if it does
So as someone whos played supermechs for most of my life..My childhood consisted of playing simplistic flash games on kongregate and ninja kiwi, (as id imagine many other people on this forum used to do too) supermechs reloaded PISSES me off. The moment i saw the update coming I already knew wtf was going to happen, as im sure a lot of people also had very similar reactions to mine, I BASICALLY CRIED. My childhood was going to be no more?! No..I had hoped it wasn't going to be true, I had hoped that legacy items wouldn't be COMPLETELY shit stomped past the point of usefulness, BUT NO IT DID. It was a stab to the heart when i came to the realization that supermechs legacy would be no more. So as like....50% of the community did, i stopped playing altogether, why in the blood soaked protestant hell would I want to continue to play a game that kicked mine and MANY others' progress to the side? We didnt even have a chance (and to my knowledge, we STILL dont), to play on old legacy servers after the shit was "reloaded". Of course some games do need to be reloaded, but not supermechs! This reload slipped past the chamber and lodged into the barrel, causing serious personal injury to everyones progress. If I could go back in time just to play one game of legacy, I would, I would restart my life just to play legacy, seriously! This game gave me the most fun i could've ever imagined as a kid, when i was little i'd bring out my toy guns and pretend to be "the epic supermech man". THEN RELOADED WENT BRR. And at the end of all of it we have to suck it up and say "oh well"...?
fair enough.
The overarching goal of this post is to ask a question in the most confrontational way possible...
Why?!
Why was reloaded necessary?
Who's idea was it to do a 'clean slate' update?
Just...why?