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Posted - 2013.10.25 18:00:00 -
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This is turning into a problem. That's the draw back of having a game that's ongoing. When you're forced to either protostomp yourself, or be protostomped it turns the game into not fun.
There's no use in even staying in the match anymore. Because if you turn to using Free Starter Fits, then you might as well leave, because you're still not going to obtain any WP. You might as well chalk up to forgoing the ISK and Bonus SP to not wanting to be dead, bored, and annoyed all the time.
I know it's the right for everyone to protostomp, but why are these corps doing it so much? Obviously Nyain San is the most guilty at doing this, and it gets annoying. Even when you do good against them (because they individual are very bad players, including Milkman and Addict) it's still not any fun. Playing a pub with the awareness and tryhardness of a P/C battle is not fun for anyone involved. Its to easy against noobs, and you have nothing to feel good about afterwards. I shouldn't have to break out the Proto gear just to hold my current expectations against 6 guys that are taking the game so seriously. You can achieve the same scores with Standard equipment, but they don't want to leave any room for error; they depend on it. So, if I beat back the Squads of Protostompers, and finish with my regular top score, I worked to darn hard to really appreciate it. I'm to much in tryhard mode to really take the fun away form the match.
And as far as match making goes... what's to stop a vet player from making an alt and going into easy lobbies and still stomping. You already have people making alts to go into the Academy and using AURUM gear to protostomp...
The DUST playerbase are nothing but scrubs that couldn't cut it on other titles, so they banded up on a game that has less than 5000 active players so they could finally be the big fish in a small pond like they always dreamed of...
Funny thing is, all these pubstompers started the game the same time as everyone else 2 years ago, so they never had to deal with the problem. They got to come up the ranks parrel with everyone else. They got in the door first, and aren't budging on their ability to destroy noobs. None of them could start a new character and play it solo for 4 weeks straight and expect to not just go back to using their main character, because they wouldn't stand for it either. Even with the knowledge of the game they have. Heck, you find a solo Nyain San player NEVER at the top of a pub lobby leaderboard... |
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Posted - 2013.10.29 18:13:00 -
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Upper Deckin wrote:
quite honestly if the QQers who cried about proto stomping 3 or 4 months ago were still playing they would be in proto gear as well, but a lot of the people who have played or do play this game lack the patients to grind it out the way the vets have.
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Its just continuing the vicious cycle . Its not going to fix the problem ...It just mean I'm not being stomped.
I think your missing the big picture here.
Why am I going to waste time on a game to be the guy stomping instead of being stomped , When I was just complaining about it . Where's the fun? .... What's the point?
To me it's not fun to be so powerful compared to your opponent they dont even pose a threat .
You might as well go play a singleplayer game , throw some cheats on and comp stomp ....What the diff?
I want a challenge , most do . This game is just level to the point you get to be the stomper ....
I can see it now the new advertising campaign:
Dust 514 : One war one universe ..... Level up and you too can stomp the few noobs that trickle through!
Those vets didn't have to grind while playing against hoards of protostompers...
I promise that if any of those vets were to start new today, they would quit too.
Since it takes about 3 months of religious play in DUST 514 to be equal in terms of gear and actual in-game experience, nobody is going to stick around for that if they only get 200 WP/game because they are getting slaughtered by scrubs who pick on noobs. All the while, those protostompers are only getting even higher on the mountain, to the point were they don't even need to spend their SP, because they've hit the limit for whatever their role is.
Now that HAVs are becoming more frequent (because the playerbase is finishing off there infantry characters and is moving into HAVs with there SP) the problem will only get worse. DUST is a game for a very niche audience. The religious gamer who plays a game to an obsession. You have to devote so much to DUST in order to be on top of the mountain, and because of the small playerbase, everyone can see the summit, so everyone exploits everything this game has offer to reach it.
The narrower the playerbase gets, the less the game will survive. DUST is already losing money hand-over-fist... making a game that only benefits less than .1% of the gamer population is a futile effort. At this rate, DUST will be scrapped, unless they figure out a whole new system to bring in more money.
Even if all DUST players spent $50/mo in AURUM, DUST would still be losing money. Broken mechanics is one thing, but to add the scrub player base on top of it? Its no wonder they won't even make the game for PS4... they can't afford to (You have to pay Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft, etc for your game to be made for their console). |
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