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Egonz4 wrote:

Ivan Avogadro wrote:

This isn't a State. It's a Business. CCP needs to do whatever is right for them, in order to make money, in order to pay the salaries of their devs and designers. End of argument. So how can CCP make the most out of Dust? F**k if I know, they pay people for the answers to those questions.

But the bottom line is:

The PS3 is a dead gen system. The population of PS3 users will only shrink from here. As more and more people move on to PS4 or other the pool of "potential new Dust players" shrinks every month
The people who do transition from "potential player" to "new player" have bad experiences with the match ups and leave never to return
The existing pool of "old players" is getting anxious, watching their game shrink, and overall stalling on basic FPS and basic RPG elements alike
Even the recruiting system is a bust. CCP tracks it for rewards, so they know for sure. But how many people here actually have successfully recruited 10, or 20, or 50 people who stayed longer than a week?

This FanFest is the last chance CCP has to make a splash with Dust. This game can't continue in this state for another year and expect to survive.

First off the ps3 is still very alive....ccp still has a long time b4 they transition.
People are the answer though and one simple thing like adding a system will fix this

Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so.


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Ivan Avogadro Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1030	Posted - 2014.04.16 15:19:00 - [1] - Quote Galthur wrote: Clicked link Saw Pyrex Left right. Because a Fatal Absolution / Dirt Nap Squad member is going to be impartial about to the state of ISK imbalance ruining the game Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Rick: I forgive you.
Ivan Avogadro Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1030	Posted - 2014.04.16 15:38:00 - [2] - Quote Ripley Riley wrote: You can choose to squad up. ADV squads only barely help against PRO squads, and vehicle imbalance is easy to exploit even with PRO AV gear. Why should a newberry be expected to fight a bitter vet even with a squad? Us bitter vets have squads too. This is a lobby shooter, there should be dozens of filters for matches. Oh wait, we have no match filters because the population is too low to support it. Because nobody stays for a second day after going 0/20 for five straight games. Closed beta vets have a skewed vision of playing this game as a newbro, since everyone was always on the same relative level. Nobody last year had to match up against 40mil SP players. Ripley Riley wrote: You can choose to have a corp. In game corp finding tools are non existent. You need to play the forums, and even then it's a crap shoot for a newberry without direction. Joining a corp still doesn't help you compete for yourself. You have more protection sure, but a 100k SP player will still get rolled by a 20mil SP player. The corp cant even buy you good gear, you wouldn't be able to equip it without a years worth of SP. Ripley Riley wrote: You choose to fit your dropsuit well. This is the flat out worst of your arguments. You can't just choose to have 15mil SP and several mil ISK necessary to run proto suits and vehicles. You need to earn it all. By throwing everyone into the deep end together and/or by allowing all the big boys to visit the kiddie pool whenever they want, you eliminate any opportunity for new people to make their own way. Even if you end up on the same team as a Nyain squad, they will steal all the kills and reduce your WPs to a fraction of what they would have been in a gudfight. One sided battles ruin the game for everyone. Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Rick: I forgive you.
Ivan Avogadro Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1046	Posted - 2014.04.18 12:57:00 - [3] - Quote This isn't a State. It's a Business. CCP needs to do whatever is right for them, in order to make money, in order to pay the salaries of their devs and designers. End of argument. So how can CCP make the most out of Dust? F*k if I know, they pay people for the answers to those questions. But the bottom line is: the PS3 is a dead gen system. The population of PS3 users will only shrink from here. As more and more people move on to PS4 or other the pool of "potential new Dust players" shrinks every month * the people who do transition from "potential player" to "new player" have bad experiences with the match ups and leave never to return * the existing pool of "old players" is getting anxious, watching their game shrink, and overall stalling on basic FPS and basic RPG elements alike * even the recruiting system is a bust. CCP tracks it for rewards, so they know for sure. But how many people here actually have successfully recruited 10, or 20, or 50 people who stayed longer than a week? This FanFest is the last chance CCP has to make a splash with Dust. This game can't continue in this state for another year and expect to survive. Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Rick: I forgive you.
Ivan Avogadro Subdreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 1056	Posted - 2014.04.18 19:26:00 - [4] - Quote Egonz4 wrote: Ivan Avogadro wrote: This isn't a State. It's a Business. CCP needs to do whatever is right for them, in order to make money, in order to pay the salaries of their devs and designers. End of argument. So how can CCP make the most out of Dust? Fk if I know, they pay people for the answers to those questions. But the bottom line is: The PS3 is a dead gen system. The population of PS3 users will only shrink from here. As more and more people move on to PS4 or other the pool of "potential new Dust players" shrinks every month The people who do transition from "potential player" to "new player" have bad experiences with the match ups and leave never to return The existing pool of "old players" is getting anxious, watching their game shrink, and overall stalling on basic FPS and basic RPG elements alike Even the recruiting system is a bust. CCP tracks it for rewards, so they know for sure. But how many people here actually have successfully recruited 10, or 20, or 50 people who stayed longer than a week? This FanFest is the last chance CCP has to make a splash with Dust. This game can't continue in this state for another year and expect to survive. First off the ps3 is still very alive....ccp still has a long time b4 they transition. People are the answer though and one simple thing like adding a system will fix this This Christmas will be the 2nd with the PS4 and XB1. How many people are going to buy new PS3s? The point isn't that PS3 is going to die tomorrow. But the PS3 population is going to start shrinking now, and that shrink will accelerate over time. More people will abandon their PS3s than new customers people will pick one up. And of the people who do pick it up, they are more likely going to be looking for a cheap blu ray player instead of an FPS machine. The writing is on the wall: Today, the PS3 has sold 80 million units. It's also an 8 year old system with brand new competition. I think it's unlikely the PS3 breaks 90 million before it's gone forever, but for easy math let's assume it makes it to 100 million. That means today, right now, 80% of all the people who ever will own a PS3 already own it. That means 80% of all the people who will ever play DUST already play DUST. (Or tried it and left). DUST can't stay alive with only a 20% boost in population. Dust needs to double or triple in size. It needs to change to entice its existing audience, or it needs to expand into a new pool of players. Preferably both. Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so. Rick:** I forgive you.