Assault Rules...Outcome

[1925frank]

By "won over," I mean to learn to genuinely like the new rules. I'm not talking grudgingly accepting the new rules after many harangues and much arm-twisting. I'm like you in that if it requires harangues and arm-twisting to be accepted, something has to be wrong with it. If it's good, it'll be recognized as such without harangues or arm-twisting. By making the new rules optional, I think Matrix has taken a step away from an arm-twisting or take-or-leave-it approach to the new rules.

On the other hand, the manner in which this change was made came across, at least to some of us, as force-feeding. Some of the anger is at the new rules, and some of the anger is at the manner in which they were sprung on the gaming community without any warning. I wouldn't have chosen to go through these additional frustrations in order to change the assault rules. I think Matrix is fighting two battles: (1) the new assault rules (not to mention the variable visibility rules) and (2) public relations with the gaming community.