DUST Search - I'm quitting, here's why

Ryme Intrinseca wrote:

1. GRIND. This is the toughest one for CCP to address. It is probably a basic feature of a game of this kind - Eve is at least as bad, I gather. But basically the game feels like a job. I have to play a certain amount of time per week or I suffer a competitive disadvantage, and to play PC I have to be on at a particular, usually not very convenient time. I have a social life and a real job, and don't have time for another one.

2. LAG. The lag in PC is horrific. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of the game, the best versus the best, and half the time it's an absolutely unplayable 1 FPS slideshow. There are simple steps that could've been taken to improve things (e.g. remove equipment noise and animations) but CCP don't seem to care. For a long time pubs were much more enjoyable for me, just because the framerate is so much better, but you can only pwn noobs so many (in my case, 27,000) times before you've had your fill. FW is supposed to fill the gap, but it's laggier than pubs so why bother?

3. 1.7. I'm not one of these nostalgia junkies who says every update makes things worse, that things were better in beta, etc. Until 1.7 I thought the game had been progressively getting better. But 1.7 demolished any hope I had for the game. Not only is it a disaster, but it was obvious it would be a disaster and CCP went ahead anyway. They've basically told pure infantry players like me to go **** ourselves. Vehicle users get a respec, we get nothing. Vehicle users get God mode, we get to hide in buildings. To be honest, it's a good thing for me, as it makes it easy to leave, which I should do anyway (see points 1 and 2). But I'm guessing the plan wasn't to alienate the 80%+ of their playerbase who want to shoot at someone who can shoot back. More fundamentally, it shows me that CCP will always pander to the loudest QQers, regardless of the consequences for game balance.

That's why I'm going, flame away.


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Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1251	Posted - 2013.12.13 15:24:00 - [1] - Quote Ryme Intrinseca wrote: 1. GRIND. This is the toughest one for CCP to address. It is probably a basic feature of a game of this kind - Eve is at least as bad, I gather. But basically the game feels like a job. I have to play a certain amount of time per week or I suffer a competitive disadvantage, and to play PC I have to be on at a particular, usually not very convenient time. I have a social life and a real job, and don't have time for another one. 2. LAG. The lag in PC is horrific. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of the game, the best versus the best, and half the time it's an absolutely unplayable 1 FPS slideshow. There are simple steps that could've been taken to improve things (e.g. remove equipment noise and animations) but CCP don't seem to care. For a long time pubs were much more enjoyable for me, just because the framerate is so much better, but you can only pwn noobs so many (in my case, 27,000) times before you've had your fill. FW is supposed to fill the gap, but it's laggier than pubs so why bother? 3. 1.7. I'm not one of these nostalgia junkies who says every update makes things worse, that things were better in beta, etc. Until 1.7 I thought the game had been progressively getting better. But 1.7 demolished any hope I had for the game. Not only is it a disaster, but it was obvious it would be a disaster and CCP went ahead anyway. They've basically told pure infantry players like me to go ** ourselves. Vehicle users get a respec, we get nothing. Vehicle users get God mode, we get to hide in buildings. To be honest, it's a good thing for me, as it makes it easy to leave, which I should do anyway (see points 1 and 2). But I'm guessing the plan wasn't to alienate the 80%+ of their playerbase who want to shoot at someone who can shoot back. More fundamentally, it shows me that CCP will always pander to the loudest QQers, regardless of the consequences for game balance. That's why I'm going, flame away. 1. What do you expect from a player driven game? Especially Eve Online is more of a social / politics simulator than it is a game. PC matches not at convenient times for you? Look for another corp or do FW. Also all that "being competitive" bullcrap: Just it, maybe? When you have 10 million SP and used them to specialize you are "competitive" enough. 3. The patch isn't even out a week. The bugs haven't even been hotfixed yet. You're jumping to conclusions. I guess we all noticed that the games performance took a huge hit with 1.7. But it won't always be like this. You just made the mistake of playing on patch day and not waiting before it is fixed, without having the patience to deal with it. ANd really: If you're one of these "I want to do something else now! Give me a respec!"-players then you're playing the wrong game anyways. Vehicle users got a respec because their whole skilltree was changed. They couldn't translate points in the current skilltree to the new one. It was the only possibility. Dust and Eve are games where respecs aren't necessary at all, because your skillpoints aren't limited. You can spec into everything. So no, they didn't tell anybody to ** off. They just did what is normal for the Eve Universe. You just have outlandish expactations. 4. Can I have your ISK?
Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1252	Posted - 2013.12.13 15:44:00 - [2] - Quote Ryme Intrinseca wrote: Aikuchi Tomaru wrote: PC matches not at convenient times for you? Look for another corp or do FW. Our timers are more or less as good as they could be for me. My point is that the whole thing of having to play at a specific time if you want a meaningful game, regardless of what's going on in your life, doesn't work for me. I prefer the game to fit in around my life, not the other way round, but maybe that's just me. Guess what: This will never change... in any game. Because to have "meaningful" games you will need good players to meet up at the same time. Because if you can just hop in you will always get your typical blueberries not knowing what they do. PC is "meaningful" because the corps tell who to send and especially larger corps don't allow every scrub to participate in PC. CCP can't change this.