I don't get why, communication with the community is so hard? Or, properly testing a product before release is so hard. At the end of the day this is just a game. But, it is supposed to be immersive. The community almost takes on a role playing aspect. Playing Eve Online for long enough captures you in the New Eden experience.

Your mindset is valid, from a casual player's point of view. I however and not a casual player. This is my hobby. Not unlike any other hobby. So, I immerse myself in game and the community. I do care about what happens within those two things. Which is why my threads exist.

I am also extremely immersed in this game. This is hardly my hobby; I consider EVE/Dust to be my endgame. All of my RL friends play EVE and Dust. I think that the paradigm of how (specifically) video game developers communicate with their customers is changing dramatically. In my opinion, the players are asking for a little too much. What you call "communication", CCP calls "expense" and "wasted development time". For a relatively small studio working on a free game, they provide a pretty reasonable amount of attention. The sad part is that the "questions" the community wants to ask have become extremely toxic. Why would they want to even read them? I've noticed that dev tags show up on professional, well mannered posts. A post about how they are failing to capture your attention doesn't count.

Relax. Seriously. As DU, I don't know how good it is for morale if you're out here condemning the game and its developers.

I'll be honest. I have put about $100 into the game. To some people might say that is way too much. To others it is nothing. It is more then I have paid for any other game aside from Eve Online. In the beginning I was blindly supportive of CCP Dust 514 team. I can't count how many times I answered questions about how the game would progress. I would tell new players about some of the things that had been discussed by Devs. I told new players to keep at it, because this game has the potential to be like nothing they had ever played.

My devotion to the new player community in my eyes was only contested by one other who I worked very closely with. That person being Keval Longstride CEO of Dust University. We held lectures, created programs for new players to learn from and eased them into the New Eden Universe. Countless hours spent doing whatever we could to provide a well balanced learning environment. That in which had not been provided by CCP in any way.

It was only through the help of many others that we were able to do so. And, it was not easy with the mentality that most FPS gamers have. However, my drive to continue such activity has worn very thin. Why support a game or company that has ignored some of the biggest issues.

A friend said to me, and I agree with him. We are still in a stage of beta. CCP is not advertising its game for a lot of reasons, but one of them being that they know it isn't a finished product. They are using the current player base as test subjects. It doesn't matter to them if they lose each and every player currently playing the game over time. More will come and take their place. Down the road when we, the current community are long gone and have moved on and when the game is in a state where CCP don't feel embarrassed to present it to the public. That is when this game will truly grow. But, that is a long time from now. Years potentially with the current progress they have shown.

Why is it that we can not have strait answers? Why do we get the run around all the time? Why are the products pushed incomplete and poorly produced consistently? Why promote an interactive community when the people who have tried the hardest to help the community grow are ignored or passed over to cater to a small group of elitists who have only their own interests in mind?

The game should be fun. Yes, it should be difficult and unforgiving, but only in the proper venues. Destroying new players only hurts the game. If you are wanting competition then stop jumping from one winning corp to another. Stop being carebares and going blue with alliances because they are winning. When I look at dust charts I see 3 major corps all in the same alliance holding all of MH. Bunch of care bearing wanna be elitists. Not all you of course. Some of you are outstanding players and cool people. But, the people who jump from corp to corp to surround themselves with good players so they themselves don't get stomped. Then go and talk about how awesome they are when really they are just being carried...

Ok...went off topic....anyway...I want the game to be what it was supposed to be. A standalone FPSMMO that connects to Eve Online. CCP if you make the players of dust dependent on Eve players to get things done you will ruin this game beyond repair.

How will this game ever dig itself out its current state if this continues?

It's just a simple road map or 'direction' they are taking, if I remember the plan after uprising came out was to release all of the racial weapons/vehicles and Core Game Play essentially which is mostly what has been released and has been generally fulfilled I wouldn't say they are not capable of generating their content but usually their ideas are pretty solid just the fact that most of this stuff is implemented and they have to continue reiterating on until it is working right.