I know the feeling man.

Damn, that's a shame - there's plenty of places you can find online groups though.

Try Reddit's LFG sub:

www.reddit.com/r/lfg

Playing online sucks a lot of the fun out of it. The best way to get started is see if you can pick up a cheap copy of the Player's Handbook and run the example adventure in there with a few friends. If enough of you enjoy it, get the other players to chip in for a Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual, and hey presto, you've got your very own D&D group. Most people find it a lot easier playing with friends than strangers as well, as it's often easier to get into character if you're playing with people you're comfortable making a jerk of yourself in front of - everyone does at some point, so it's good to be able to laugh at yourselves

I know the feeling man.

Damn, that's a shame - there's plenty of places you can find online groups though.

Try Reddit's LFG sub:

www.reddit.com/r/lfg

I tried to play it, but I just couldn't get anywhere with the mech they gave me and the progression was too slow for me to keep interest in it.

But if you pay them lots of money you can level up at the same rate as you would in a decent game!

I mean, comparing it to MWO, it just doesn't give you enough options to start with, in MWO, you get 16 trial mechs to play with, 4 of each weight class, and these even have a "meta-like" build on them. Hawken started me with 1 medium mech, and I had to play 5 matches to get a new gun for it.

I didn't like Hawken at all. It's not the slower pace, I'm all for that, but I was always up against people who'd paid, and were therefore better than me.