Leonid Tybalt wrote:My mentality is perfectly healthy. I had no ******* idea about ccp's development style when I first started playing. I had to find out the hard way like everybody else, and feel all that "unfairness".
But im still here right? That doesn't make me (or you) "special" it just proves my point that there are players that enjoy it.
You're worrying about nothing. Scrub crybabies and quitters are to be expected. People said the exact same things about Eve in the beginning years ago. You think the playerbase of Eve is "dwindling"?
The playerbase in EvE
is dwindling. Added Japanese local content = jap players to cover the losses in english and russian markets. China market is the
only market growing for EvE (counted in the media totals, not in TQ totals) along with Japan (for now). If you hadn't noticed...DUST hasn't faired much better.
So, no, I'm not worrying about nothing. Beyond worry, I'm more interested in making a better game - and a better game includes mechanics that draw more people to play so I can tear them up later on.
Ever read the book Atlas Shrugged? Know why it hasn't happened? Super Smart, Amazingly Strong, Very Important people need their opposites to survive. You need scrubs to make the game worth playing or all you'll have is EVE:
-Bitter Vets staring at each other in 10% TIDI because solo and gang play no longer exists because the idiots willing to waste the resources no longer exist...called 'having fun'
-An overflowing hisec that accomplishes nothing but fuel the market for each other, rather than the deeper gameplay of Null and WH...resulting in a rotating door of new players enjopying just shallow PvE content, then leaving.
In Dust terms - that's proto-stomping and minimal PC turnover. You think FW timers are bad now? Wait until all the pubs are gone. "Well then I'll have a REAL challenge" once every ******* hour. "Well the real hardcore people can get after it" - News Flash: we're a very tiny breed - a game of 5,000 doesn't warrant paying for servers, so the game shuts down. EvE is fortunate (for now) to have enough media influence to continue to draw more hardcore players...
...but consider that in all the places you can play EvE in the real world, a totally unique hardcore game I LOVE...
...only 50,000 play. Earth's population is...3 trillion if I recall (don't quote me, school was awhile back, hehe)
Now compare that to a shooter game on ONE console that large tracks of the civilized world don't have (compared to PC, that everyone has). 50k just became 5k. We're not there yet - but people like you are sure as hell getting us there. I want DUST to be a hardcore game and not change - but I want more people playing it too. Why don't you?
"Scrubs suck" isn't an answer.
