Quote Originally Posted by Fahrenheit View Post
Logged in after like 6 months of inactivity just to say this:

I liked the old profile system mainly because it was simple and not cluttered with a bunch of other stuff.

The add and pm buttons are way too intrusive and ugly, along with the fact that they are on the right, not on the left, is something that will always be an eyesore despite the fact that we probably need to get used to it.

Since when was "language" ever something we needed to put on our profile?

Haha, you don't know my language if it's private...

If you wanted to get less criticism for this, you might as well put an option to revert back to the old system in the player settings (similar to the old emote system option which I still use) so that people who never wanted this in the first place can be happy.

Also, get rid of align, one of the most useless "stat" that staff hasn't bothered to work with since the very beginning.

Giving us the ability to put the stats that we're interested in on the very first page would sort of make this bearable, along with the options to privatize specific stats (e.g. money, relationship, MPX duo) so that players can show whatever they want to show.

Some staff earlier in this thread commented that we were "begging" for new updates and were being ungrateful- to which I say that while we do want updates, a majority of the people on here never wanted an UI overhaul, they were looking for new content, new guns etc. Also, there was literally no warning or indication that this was going to happen or that a majority of players wanted this, so the playerbase has somewhat of a right to be upset about the new changes especially when the presiding attitude from staff is pretty much "You wanted updates and now you're b****ing about how it's terrible."

There's absolutely no communication going on between staff and player base, which is why staff will always get flak for whatever they do b/c they don't talk with the players and ask what they'd like to see. A bit of a heads- up in the form of a "patch notes" before the actual update is implemented would actually be nice so that one day we're not hit with a massive overhaul like this and get pissed off.

@Failure, you mentioned that the players were being unreasonably upset and that you wanted to know exactly why. That's a good step in the right direction. I just hope the rest of the staff team actually bother to follow your lead and decide to actually ask players what they want before a change is made instead of after they make a mess.
I gotta disagree that the old profiles were uncluttered, I absolutely hated the fact that you would have to wait for MPX duo scores to show up. The new adding and pm buttons might take some getting used to, I think it was placed like that to keep some consistency between your profile and other players’ profiles.

I don’t think it’s going to be possible to have an option to revert to and from the old profile system, as far as I know it’s much more complicated than simply changing out graphics and ganis or whatever like what was done with the emojis.

Not sure how letting players customize what is shown on their own profile would work, but it could be cool. Downside being it could confuse and trick newer players.

I do agree that we need to interact with the player base more and gauge opinions for things like this, but for now I guess we can only give constructive criticism and see what happens.

Also, I didn’t mean I thought players were unreasonably upset - I actually think it’s pretty justified. Players get used to one thing, then it completely changes and that can be disturbing. However the complete hate is a little harsh, someone did work hard to renovate the profiles. Overall, I personally feel like it does make the profile cleaner and easier to read, though I am a pretty big fan of proper use of empty space.

After playing around with it a little yesterday, I can see why players are more upset than the majority of staff seem to be. I think the new profile system appeals more to staff members since our kills and stats and stuff don’t matter on staff accounts. So keeping it hidden and out of the way makes it look neater and less cluttered. However, those stats are more important to players than staff, and it’s just a pain to have to scroll to check someone’s stats and see kind of how they spend their time in the game.