I've yet to play or hear of any Multiplayer FPS that has more then a paper-thin story of why we are shooting the other team... APB has the "strongest" reason I've ever encountered and it is still pretty weaksauce, but I don't really play FPSes for the story, there is a reason after all that my favorite FPS is still Black after all these years.

You know what - I'll take the forum ban.

You really are stupid if you missed the entire context of my post.

Battlefield 3? Call of Duty? Lobby shooters. Both of them. Only thing they have that Dust doesn't is Campaign mode. That and some absolutely terrible hit box lag.

There's a reason so many people think Gallente is Space-MURIKAH until told otherwise...

Yeah, the half million people who play Eve Online TOTALLY needed someone to give them purpose, let me tell you.

Miners have more purpose than half of the Dust players. They're doing it for money. You guys? I dunno what you're doing anything for, honestly - and it shows that you don't either considering you have to ask for purpose.

I get no greater joy than dropping a Tactical Hybrid Strike for myself in PC. Got my television set up right next to my computer monitor. Hell, I even landed a kill in Eve Online while playing Dust 514:

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20644140#mail


And you know what's the saddest thing about this thread? The fact that the majority of you are seasoned Shooter veterans, either from Call of Duty, Battlefield, Unreal or what have you. Did you need any purpose in those games other than to kill? To win the match?

What did you die in those games for, eh?

Some silly flag that was still going to be there the next game? In that exact same place, just waiting to change colors?
Some bomb that was still going to be there waiting to be armed/defused?
Some silly killboard?

You want purpose, open up the Starmap and take a look at the Factional Warfare colors. Or the Planetary Conquest colors. Die for one of those. You didn't need any other reason for any other game, so quit your whining, suit up and go kill something.

When someone tells you to make your own purpose, they're not joking, they're not lying and saying they are just shows how ignorant you really are.

Gallente is America. Caldari is america

So the problem is that there isn't enough variety of things to do. We have FW which lets you fight for the side of your Choice, Then PC lets Corps Fight for territory. So the problem with FW is that there's no real gain for fighting for a faction accept for the satisfaction of defeating for enemies. The problem with PC is that one not everyone can compete with these top tier corps, Two is that there's no real gain unless your apart of Eon which holds most of the district of Molden Heath.
Yes we Should look to find something to fight for but two real options give the newberries no real incentive to do so. For example if we had PvE from what i've come to find out what it would be is that these drones would infest said district and we as mercs would get payed to go in and clean it out. So say a corp is in a war and one of their districts got infested and don't have the resources to deal with it I would get a squad to do the job.
Anther example if there was a DUST PLAYER MARKET where we as dust players can trade and sell items(this wouldn't be connected with EvE yet). I would be a broker for people so they can go fight in there battles and don't have a worries of running out of items they want for a price.
In EvE they have a lot of options to do and gain for what ever they do. As for me i understand that that this game has a long way to go but i think there should of been some implemented long time ago like all racial suits. As for what where dieing for yes i agree that you should make your own path but as of right now there isn't a lot of paths to chose from. Also i do support this game 100% and i do understand things take time to become great.

ANONYMOUS is doing just fine despite this current fad that you can't do anything without EON and we're not even a part of an alliance. So, don't say it can't be done.

Yup PIE fights you guys whenever we get the chance on any battlefield you turn up on if we can, and we're an 8 man corp, with only 3 regular players. Still I find fighting for the Amarr a worthwhile cause to dedicate my time to, however I only wish we had AMARR HAV so that I didn't have to rely in Gallentean crap.