So look, I'm sure everyone at CCP knows just as well as we all do that this game is dying. And it's dying fast. We've already just lost roughly 1000 players to GTA V and the online isn't even out yet. Battlefield 4 and COD Ghost are coming out next as WELL as the ps4 and all the other stuff.
The reason there is so much QQ and complaining about this game is because this has SO much god damn potential it is excruciatingly painful to see it go down hill so rapidly. We complain not because we hate the game but because we HATE hating the game.
This is your last chance CCP, fix the game once and for all otherwise you will not, and I guarantee this, have a game by Christmas. All that capital and time wasted, all the hours of patching and forum posting and everything will be gone to waste. The '10 year plan' was always hilariously naive but you couldn't even break a year (counting from Uprising) and that is shameful. You don't have time anymore for these monthly patches where you'll update a thing here, or a thing there. No. Enough of that.
If you want this game to even have a CHANCE now, if you want the game to give people a reason to come back (other than SP building) then you just have to bring out all that you promised you would. Here's a little list for you.
- New maps (You brought out some great ones, keep them coming)
- New game modes (No, not skirmish with 10 letters I mean a NEW game mode)
- New vehicles (NO, not a different coloured Gallente tank but Amarr and Minmitar tanks)
- Proto-type tanks (sagaris, Surya etc)
- New drop suits (Not different coloured caldari assaults, but new heavies, logis, scouts, pilots, commanders, etc)
Have some chilli!!
- New weapons (Out of the box weapons, be creative, not OP)
- Increased player capacity in game modes (You know MAG?)
- Large maps for the above ^
- PvE. You remember when you advertised your game, Dust 514, you showed PvE? Yeah you actually have to incorporate that ****, you can't just dangle it in front of our eyes and then lol about it.
- Worthwhile EVE intergration. This whole "one universe one war" stuff is irrelevant, it doesn't matter to us if there is an EVE OB and there is next to no benefit of an EVE pilot helping us out.
- Open up player trading. For gods sake. Open it up.
- Corporation quarters, this gives us something else to spend our ISK on to making it look nice, hell you could even add in some mini-games or fun things to do in here.
- Intergrated Gambling/stocks/stakes. Another way to make ISK, something that you can put actual grind into and not have to worry about getting ****** over by players not honoring their bet.
- Training grounds. A new way for corporations to train, in which they can host private matches amongst themselves in which their ISK, SP, stats will not be effected and it it merely for training purposes in private server.
- Team Deploy in FW.
- Corporation battles (With isk betting)
- Integrated bounties (accepting contracts, carrying them out and automatically being paid upon completion)
- New MCCs (Minmitar, Amarr)
- Release Jets, APCs, and any other vehicles such as bikes/dune buggies you had in the works
- ADD F*CKING TREES
- Add more aspects to physical customisation of characters (e.g. paint jobs, corp emblems on shoulders or something like that)
- Add gravity differences to different planets
- Add weather (rain, wind, fog, storms)
- Add landmarks (You know that caldari prime ship? That was ******* bad ass)
- Better SP events
- Add in features to better assist newer players so that they won't insta-quit like 98% of them do.
- Fix players being able to lock their own districts
- Give incentive to being the underdog to corporations
- Add in drones in pub matches, have them as some sort of installation. You could make it expensive as hell but incredibly valuable, imagine how much that would change the dynamic.
- Add in more types of off-map support other than Orbital strikes
I'm sure there are tons and tons of crucial things I've left off of this list, but these are the ones which came to mind immediately. CCP, all this you'll read and think:
"Yeah yeah, yet another idiot who doesn't understand the time and money it takes to actually implement this stuff".
Well, I do understand. But frankly I don't care and no one else does either, and neither should you if you want this game to survive.
You're two options now are:
1) Kill the game
2) Save the game
:D
Trolls, please commence to tell me how much I QQ, that CCP doesn't listen, that I'm ignorant, that I don't understand, that I need some chilli, anything you like. I am aware you don't like lists, but idc.