Nguruthos IX
PEN 15 CLUB
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Posted - 2013.09.20 23:21:00 -
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"release" and "beta" are just words, nothing more.
But there is a reason why people play with them so much. "Release" is an excuse to get some free promotion and temporarily spike player base. "beta" is an excuse to have poor polish and bugs.
I think CCP needs to bite the bullet and re-declare Dust 514 as "beta". Admit the release and consequent patches were a failure, and re-group.
Flying under the banner of Beta, Dust would feel more free to crank out content faster, at the expense of a few bugs and unbalance issues. This is good. It gets us to where we need to be faster. Balancing around a product with 15% content has shown itself to be a cyclical nightmare of 1 step forward, 3 steps back and and close to zero overall progress.
At this pace 2 years from now Dust will still not see the completion of even the racial variants for Existing suits, far less many new ones.
Sure the forge gun is broken, screw it.
ARs, LRs, DS, Tanks, MDs, Flay Locks of the past, screw em.
OP weapons of the future, screw it who cares!
If this game is going to be terrible along the way, at least let it be getting somewhere.
What's worse, a little shame now, or a dead game in a couple years?
1. Publicly admit defeat.
2. Quickly decide the time-line of Dust PS3/PS4, how to make the switch, or find a way to work concurrently on both. Plan is to wait for new Unreal Engine?
3. Restructure and reorganize- all men on deck to content, ignore balance. Deal with it when you have the whole picture so as to not waste another 3 years.
4. Promise players a respec system with changes which terminates once all major content is finalized: All skills, weapon variants, racial suit variants, racial vehicle variants, all class of vehicles (LAV, MAV, HAV, light, medium, heavy aircraft, bikes) are IN. AKA "Release 2.0".
5. Take the opportunity to expand the ambition of Dust. You've been increasingly less ambitious as times goes on, resigning yourselves to the short comings of Unreal + PS3 + artificial-premature "release".
6. Do what you actually want with this game, be free of forum QQing about bugs and balance. Be free of these chains holding you on < last gen hardware. Unleash the potential of an FPS that has more meaningful implications than KD/R. Be free.
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