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FAZER-B
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.10.24 20:25:00 -
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Prepare for a lot of crying.
The social model for this game sucks. The pressure to join a corporation sucks. And because the community is so small there aren't enough good corps to be match made against each other. I was just in a match against Dust2Dust and lost bad. Usually I would complain that one side had a full squad of corp members and that was the reason we lost. Then I look at the scoreboard and not person on my team had more than 1 kill. Is their corporation really that good, or is the mix of lone mercenaries really that bad? Well, probably both. They can't help but crush that side. It's automatic.
Many will say join corp I don't want to. This is not a problem for me in other shooters. I never consider having to get to know strangers in order to strictly enjoy the game. Then I realize that CCP has designed this to be a very social game. It's not pay to win, it's gang up to win. Cue my tears. Essentially, before the match starts, one side has corp members and one side doesn't. What's worse, the corp side sometimes has a mix of other corp members, too. People say the matchmaker is broken, and yet, I suspect this very intentional on CCPs part. They know that the social aspect, much like word of mouth sells their product. You may think this game is not a triple A title and want to quit Dust, but you might not want to quit the relationships you've formed while you played. Forced to form. I suppose if you like playing with people with their inside jokes, hanging out in the lobby forever, this isn't a problem for you. I've played this game a lot longer than my avatar suggests and I've noticed a good majority of corps have dissolved and become other corps because the social aspect of the game is good, until it isn't. People bicker and realize they aren't truly friends with these people. There's a ton of drama in a corp. You win, sure, but you don't like each other as much as you think you do. Blowing **** up is anti social thing to do, so to expect people to love each other in the process is flawed. People will say teamwork is everything, and their winning shows this, and yet individual competition creates secret resentment. Only those who benefit from their EVE ties can claim to have a thick skin about this, and overlook it, as just a part of New Eden.
When you see how badly you lose to six members of a corp, your instinct is I simply must join a corp or I will be toast. Sure other shooters have gangs and groups, but they aren't as top down as the Eve to Dust correlation. If you create a corp that isn't already established with a community that existed 10 years before dust was created, you can't expect any real ladder climbing.
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FAZER-B
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
10
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Posted - 2013.10.24 20:25:00 -
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Then when it comes to 1v1 you almost kill a guy, but die instead. Then you realize he had double the armor as you. In other shooters you don't have worry about some weird long term investment that you hope will eventually make you even with the other longer playing enemy. I shouldn't be hammering a guy and realize he's not going to die anytime soon, asking myself WTF are you wearing. Then say, Oh yeah, I need to spend more time grinding then actually enjoying the game. Pretty much, not concerning myself with wins and losses, but focusing more on some two week task of getting a level 5 skill that should be available the moment you start playing this game. I have hammer mash the button over and over because there are skills for sprinting and slots for sprinting enhancements. The fact that I can run in BF4, and keep running has never felt better. Here again, is another flawed model of skill investment that I found just as annoying in Mag, another game that failed.
The satisfaction of killing a tank in BF4 is simple. You can expect a certain amount of hits to destroy it. Not in this game, no you have hope you have a myriad of skills and hopefully the right slots filled. Oh wait, you skilled into the wrong class for that and will need to spend another year skilling into that at the sacrifice of your current progress just to take out a tank regularly. Blowing up the tank is satisfying not skilling into that ability. I mean to say that more time is spent looking at skill trees and the marketplace than blowing up the tank and moving on to other enjoyable aspects of destruction. Here's where another problem lies. The so called smart shooter. Sorry if I stereotype the average dust shooter, but many are nerds who like the intricate math of shield percentage. This is a shooter and somehow I am made to feel like a stupid mindless grunt shooter by this community because I'm in favor of aggressively attacking an objective, not measuring out my personal inventory losses, as if those should matter more than a won or lost match. When I look at the map and I see other blue dots hanging back I have to bow down to them, play like them. Redline Redline Redline. Back to the nerd, so called smart shooter. For many of these dudes, this is the first and only shooter they've ever played, especially the ones who bought a PS3 just for dust. For them, they have nothing to compare the downside of dust with. For them, I need to get over the downsides of this game, because that's just how it is. Fine, be lord the flies, this game won't last.
I get it, this a free game. CCP is looking to make a player commit money and time in different way because they think free to play is the wave of the future. I hate it. I hate all those Angry bird games that started this model. Let me pay sixty bucks for a game and enjoy it, not hem and haw over how I must make this game enjoyable through cosmetic additions. Don't force into some long standing community of the elite. It's enough to see them with the same colors on the battlefield. These aren't my teammates in life. There, tears. Normally I'd be embarrassed by my rant, expecting nothing but backlash, but I'm quitting dust, so I don't care. I wont be responding to the people who make fun of me anyway. Backlash will help me quit. |
FAZER-B
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
10
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Posted - 2013.10.24 20:34:00 -
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Scoota Eu wrote:Can I have your stuff?
Join Corp before you quit. You might find the game fun. I can tell you that I don't log into Dust every day for the gameplay alone but log in to play with my buds/corpies
Yeah, I'll send it to you. It only like 13 mil. Crush a lone merc with it. |
FAZER-B
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
10
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Posted - 2013.10.24 20:37:00 -
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Fazer B/ Vanda-Kon has left the dust arena. |
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