COVERT SUBTERFUGE wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:Funny.
I remember people saying the same thing about Eve Online 11 years ago. Then 5 years ago about Eve. Then last year about Eve. And still I keep running into people in Eve Online who think Eve Online is broken.
Well, Eve Online is still here and competing well.
CCP developed Eve Online.
Shhh, the closed minded, short sighted doom and gloom scrubs (aka seemingly 95% of the forum community) won't be able to comprehend this.
The only people who don't agree that DUST 514 in it's current state can not retain an new player for very long are people who:
- Joined with friends or got right into a active corp so they had people to rage with (makes things so much better having people to talk to in the same match feeling what you feel)
- Got insta-locked into the promise of the future DUST 514 sells so well and pushes themselves through it for that vague and possibly never reached vision (I believe it's about half and half to be honest.)
- Or people like me (and most of the people still here in DUST 514) that joined DUST either in CBT or OBT and grinded with everyone at the start. WE DIDN'T GET ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS BECAUSE WE WERE ALL IN STD/BPO GEAR! We were being smart and leveling our cores and saving ISK which is the reason why some of us who aren't even in PC have 500m+.
If anyone wasn't doing that and went straight into the proto suit and some weapon then we crushed them, T-Bagged the corps, and that person didn't spawn in that suit anymore because he didn't have the ISK to try that again after getting his ass handed to him by a BPO Raven suit with more base EHP, Fitting power, and core passives.
We don't have the right to tell newbies to HTFU. We didn't have to AT ALL. I don't even make alts because playing on them is god aweful. And I KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. I can't imagine what it's like for a new person who just picked a free game up off of PSN. That **** would have been off my system in an hour if I was a newb and made a new character now. Starting out in EvE is no where near this brutal. I just recenrly mad e a 2 month old pilot in eve for the first time ever using a 2 month free code. Easiest thing in the world to get started.
DUST 514 has a new player retention issue. Just accept it and think of a way to fix it instead of trying to tell people it's fine. People are stupid but if you beat a dog long enough even it will figure out that that's not good.
P.S. Btw I'm not backing you up OP. I think your a prick making a post like that even if your point is valid.