Okay, you know what IWS? I was going to keep quiet and respect the idea behind your thread, even if I didn't agree with it, but this right here is just too much.


I'm going to gloss over your bad comparisons to other games, how the manner and events of their discontinuation have little parity with DUST 514's.

I'm also going to spare you a lecture about how advertising a product or service as providing one thing (continued updates, expansion and refinement of the world and gameplay systems, further interconnectivity with the New Eden universe) and then delivering another, similar-in-appearance-but-obviously-NOT-the-same product or service (DUST 514 as it is today, with no further updates or expansion, as stated by fanfest announcements) while continuing to advertise said product or service as fully still providing that thing is not only unethical, it's downright illegal.

Which is what CCP has done over the last 4~ish months or thereabouts, since DUST 514 development was halted.


If Blizzard said today "We're shuttering development as of this October, WoW at that point will be as developed as it is ever going to be. Buy items through the in-game market from this point on at your own risk and with full knowledge of this fact" they'd be fine.

If Blizzard came to this decision six months ago and didn't tell anyone until Blizzcon in November the customers would have every right to demand a refund of their monies, if Blizzard continued to advertise WoW during that time as an MMO with continual content updates and open-ended additions. ESPECIALLY if the majority of Blizzard's sales were made up of items that served no purpose but to increase the speed of progression. Progression which would be rendered pointless much sooner than anticipated, because the end of progression FOREVER would at that point be very much in sight.


Gah, I said I'd spare you a lecture and ended up giving it to you anyway. My apologies. Sorta.




The issue I have with you is this attitude of yours. Exemplified in the quoted post.

You keep painting CCP as the victim here. That the playerbase is jumping down CCPs throats unjustifiably.

You say we should continue to support CCP, so that DUST can "continue to thrive" for fear of CCP "pulling the plug".


NEWSFLASH, IWS!

DUST hasn't THRIVED in a long time, possibly EVER. And it isn't because the players didn't want it to thrive. It isn't because we didn't support CCP.
If we hadn't supported CCP, those refund threads you seem to find so distasteful WOULDN'T EXIST!

We DID support CCP. That was our mistake. Because our support in the end was used to fund a DIFFERENT GAME, instead of the one we actually played.


We aren't at risk of causing CCP to pull the plug due to our lack of support! CCP pulled the plug AND WE ARE WITHDRAWING WHAT SUPPORT WE CAN IN CONSEQUENCE!

This is called reaping what you've sown.


CCP has given up on the game, but you expect the players to continue to bankroll the development of the OTHER game that sounded the death-knell of this one? The game that CCP stated straight-up was gaining its development and ideas at the cost of this one?

Basically, you want us to purchase a first class suite on the Titanic, AS IT IS SINKING?



Every post you makes smacks of poorly executed damage control, and comes across as a sad attempt at maintaining personal relevance as some sort of leadership figure in a world which has just been given its pink slip by The Powers That Be.

You can't lead people which have no future. There's nowhere to lead them to.