Titanfall 2: Where are our answers?

Remember, back on April 5, 2021, Respawn tweeted - and I quote - "We're aware of ongoing DDOS attacks affecting @titanfallgame. To the Titanfall community: Help is coming ASAP." (source can be found at: https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1379204515748929538)

Here's my question about it all... Since this "promise" to the Titanfall following, Respawn had a few updates that temporarily made online play at least somewhat accessible, though I'd argue that the amount of times the servers were playable by members of the Titanfall community are grossly outweighed by the times it was not - which sadly remains the current status at the time of this writing on Xbox. We learned months later from Garza that Respawn actually only had two people working on the mitigation team, which suggests their Tweet was nothing more than smoke and mirrors to save face by pretending to care about the loyal fanbase. We're. 8 months into this promise to be helped, and their "two people" working on the solution, on Respawn's payroll, might I add, have been outdone by a handful of PC-platform players among all of us in the Titanfall community. And here's the kicker: they accomplished it on their own dime.

So, my question for Respawn is pretty straightforward. It's clear that your company doesn't actually plan to send help in any meaningful or timely manner, despite the April 5th Tweet. So I want to know... Given that you guys have truly dedicated a team of two whole employees to the task, how hard did you condemn us? I want to know, so I can go ahead and drop my expectations... So i can place that hopeful energy into something more meaningful, as to not waste a few hours every day trying different data centers in an effort to score just a single game to total completion after my long work day. I need to know.... Do you guys actually have a qualified team of two people or did you guys task this responsibility to the outmatched skills of the company's unpaid intern and janitor? I can't fathom a scenario where a diligent duo of educated, certified veteran developers working within the company that initially wrote the game in question is outperformed in problem mitigation and solution-finding by a handful of unpaid, dedicated fans.

In conclusion, I believe Respawn has abandoned us and probably continues to largely ignore our inquiries here, through their/EAs website social media, emails and phone calls for only one reason and one reason alone - to hopefully rope the remnant players away from the game we came to love and into their most recent and more supported title Apex Legends; and I wouldn't put it past them , that it is already a drawn out "marketing plan" to win over extra players by feeding on the wishful longing of TF2 players reminiscent of the memories created by the FPS games in the Titanfall universe who succumbed to their desires and settled with playing Apex as its the only way to get something close to what they used to enjoy once upon a time like a watered down fix of the real thing.

Let's face it, guys, gals, both, neither, & everything in between.... Respawn, our cherished and beloved studio built from the awesome minds and creative wit of the gaming industry's best and brightest have completely forsaken us pilots, lied to our faces and continue to pull on our hopeful heart strings.

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And I don't want to hear the excuse 'but its an old game', because somehow I can still enjoy online multiplayer games of StarCraft and its expansion set, Brood War, and that game came out in 1998, 24 years ago.

@TraumasaurusRex   Perfectly written, but wrong forum. Respawn doesn't hang around here. Is it possible that you can send them a copy on their prefered platform of communication and keep us posted on the results? I'd really like to know what their official reply to this would be.

Edit: And you're right; Titanfall 2 may be old (by industry standards), but it's not canceled. Someone is responsible for its upkeep.

@ICA_CourierI have no issues doing just that, though I must admit, after trying @Respawn on Twitter, their seemingly dead Facebook official account, emailing Microsoft to report a problem, Respawn's email, EA's report an issue form and emails, without receiving anything beyond a generic/bland (likely copy & pasted) response, or a blatantly obvious auto-generated response, I have not an inkling of an idea to post or send this.

What do you recommend? I am all ears.

You won't get an answer from Respawn or EA you the gamer are nothing to them these DDOS attacks effect thousands of player but the player base is nowhere near what APEX has and brings in cash wise, I hate to say it and this is coming from a massive TF fan as I own 1 & 2 and I couldn't get enough of just playing F-Defence mode with randoms. I can see them just merging the whole world of TF even more with APEX I wouldn't be suprised if TF3 was scrapped in order to find a way to merge into APEX.

Imagine APEX legends with fully customizable Titans I mean you can do far more than what you can in TF2, with NFTs getting pushed into gamers faces I just feel it's the new loot box and a new way to keep the governments one step behind to ban them, NFTs for parts for your Titan I just can see EA doing it and merging it in to APEX. But I think thet will wait for COD to make the first move then they will do Battlefield and Apex next, I hope I am wrong because I would love a TF3 I seriously would but it's nearly a year now those idiots who got caught and can't stand the fact they had beef with EA just are acting childish and I hope one day they get caught

@ICA_CourierLast time I gave Apex another chance was when that 3on3 Arena mode came out. And honestly, it just felt half-assed without TF2's movement + Titans and I asked myself why I even waste my time playing it when I can just start TF2. Apex' netcode and performance also felt pretty bad compared to TF2. I experienced lots of disconnects, no regs and slomo matches, things I never had in TF2 (before the DDOS attacks). They would have to do much more than just copy & paste TF2 into AL.

But if they really did all that, leaving all the qualities of TF2 intact, the playerbase would be ultimately fragmented and people might pump less money into the f2p model. The 2 games would probably compete against each other more than they ever did. And we're still talking about the same Respawn Entertainment that was for a long time too afraid to put duo and solo queues into Apex and had timed game modes in TF2... so yeah... if my wildest fever dreams came true and I somehow managed to put my grudge against Respawn/EA aside, I might even give such a version of AL another chance...

Realistically speaking: Never.