To the Enlisted Developer and Executive Teams:
I don’t know how else to say this, but I have to be completely honest with you. I’m not having fun with Enlisted anymore. You have changed the game so drastically and not for the better. You have laid your intentions bare and made it clear that the changes to the game are purely for maximum monetary gain, not for the improvement of gameplay and the user experience.
You used to be my favorite game, the one that made me feel excited and challenged. My brother and I were thrilled to get online on the one day a week we could play together. Between the two of us, we have spent $600.00 USD on your game, so if this letter presents itself to you with an infuriated tenor, we hope you understand.
Previously, there were a variety of maps and theaters of war to choose from, each with its own history and atmosphere. You used to have a balanced and fair matchmaking system that matched me with players of similar skill and preference. This was a wonderful feature, the ability to choose how you wanted to focus your progression. The campaigns had a sense of organization and order, which now yields to the chaos of being spawned into random maps across all campaigns.
All options to choose are now apparently gone. I am forced to set up my squads using pure guesswork and have no idea which map I’m going into! I set up my squads based on battle rating II, but then I’m spawned into a Normandy campaign map with a battle rating V. I am basically now fighting this map with primitive weapons against a properly equipped and vastly superior enemy.
You have ruined everything. You have made everyone play the same map over and over again, Normandy. You have taken away my choice and my freedom to explore different scenarios and strategies. You have made me play the same boring and repetitive missions for hours on end.
You have also become greedy and unfair. You have made me pay to play your campaigns, only to find out that they are full of bugs, glitches, and errors. You have ignored my feedback and my complaints. You have taken my money and my time, and given me a polished turd in return. With these changes, you didn’t put lipstick on a pig; you butchered a young, majestic peacock and replaced it with a plague-riddled New York City rat!
The changes to the game have made me lose my passion and my interest in supporting you and your efforts. You have, to a degree, made me regret ever playing Enlisted.
Yet, somehow, I still have hope for you. I still believe that you can be the game that I fell in love with. I still hope that you can fix your problems and improve your quality. I still hope that you can bring back the fun and the challenge that I crave. I still hope that you can give gamers what they value most, the ability to choose.
I’m not 100% resolute on giving up on Enlisted just yet. I’m just taking a break and will be monitoring progress (or lack thereof) from time to time. I hope that when I do choose to revisit, you will be the game that I remember, the game that was once a budding lotus flower and is now a flaming dumpster fire. I hope that you will make the right choice and allow your invested players the opportunity to CHOOSE THE CAMPAIGN YOU WANT TO PLAY.
Until then, Enlisted, I wish you all the best in your maximum monetization quest. My money, however, will stay FIRMLY in my wallet until you restore the ability to choose campaigns.
I hope you can find your way back to greatness. I hope you can make your fans proud again.
And most of all, I hope you can figure out how to tiptoe the line of sustainability and monetary prosperity, because at the moment you firmly stand on the side of rapacious greed and insolence to your player base.
With sheer disappointment and solemn regret,
forthethieves
