Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.06 11:34:00 -
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The problem I have is: if DUST 514 was a hit: 30k people online at any one moment, all waiting for DUST 514 to become what CCP promised it would be, would CCP still have essentially killed it by announcing Legion? If the answer is "yes", then it really is about making the promises they made true. If it is "no", hey, I guess we just couldn't make them enough money.
"I have to get new hardware!" is actually a fairly small group whose complaints are still justified. Consoles and games do die and disappear. This is the first case, that I know of, where a game is completely moving to a different platform. I don't mean as a port like Diablo III; I mean that DUST 514 is going to be shutdown a year after Legion and all resources put into Legion to be what DUST was supposed to be. The complaint is about that: "you told me it was going to be here and all of your resources were on this platform. You lied to me."
Never ever say "it is a free to play game; don't complain." It is the easiest fallacy to fall for and I was guilty of it for some time, though not with DUST. Free to play is a misnomer, it isn't true. The game has a different way of getting money besides up front cost (60 dollars at store, etc.) or subscription (10 dollars a month). It still makes money and is a product that needs to be up to par. Allow me to use the most played game in the world as an example:
League of Legends is completely free to play and is generally considered an "ethical free to play" game. If I spent $1,000 on the game, I am just as powerful as the guy that spends no money. I can unlock more things than him faster but my characters are not more powerful. He can still get everything I have aside from completely cosmetic changes. I once said to my friend we can't complain because it is free; it costs us nothing. I was wrong, he was right: "After 3 multi-million dollar tournaments, massive advertising, and being the most played game in the world it 'being free' is no longer a shield."
If you state that just because it is free I can't expect much or complain, what happens when I spend a dollar? Does my opinion matter more than yours because I spent money? Here's an article that is interesting. The final point is the seller: "Everything in the game exists because of 10% of the player base that paid for it. Knowing this, does my voice matter because I don't put money into the game? Should it matter?" If you mention "it is free, don't complain" you are falling into this trap.
Going with "it is just a game, calm down" is insulting but I see what you are saying. No one is burning down bridges for this. The only thing people are doing is bitching loudly to get information *waves*, quitting/not playing, or deleting their characters. We just want the thing that we liked, or at least the idea of the thing we liked, to be done in a way that doesn't just have us rubbing our backsides going "did you have to paddle our butts like we were a money pinata CCP?"
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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