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Michael Epic
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.29 17:49:00 -
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This game is incredibly difficult for new players...but we all started there and we stuck around! My character has existed for a year and a half but after 1.7 and 1.8 I was gone for 6-8 months....but I played my ass off and earned 30 million SP from 6/2013 to now even with HUGE times when I've left.
Recently, I've begun playing in the battle academy over multiple profiles, to earn isk with the frontline suits and to swipe the 25,000 starting isk as well as liquidate the assets. I've been piling up ISK by doing this, but have begun a new thing as well.
I find players that are new...the ones who SOS on the teamchat for help (it happens often) and I've come across numerous players ages 12-34 or so who have no clue what is going on and I've explained the game to them and added them on PSN and offered to mentor them while I am online.
I tell them upfront, if you're weak willed and you expect a COD kill streak, you're on the wrong game but if you want fierce competition, grueling gameplay and feel like putting up or shutting up, this is the game for you but you have to really want it or you're not going to "get it" so to speak.
The players I've talked too seem to appreciate me telling them upfront this game is hard...I'd say out of 10 players, I've retained 6 or so that still play weeks later and when we talk they tell me I wasn't kidding and they can barely even get a kill and don't understand the skill tree.
So that's my part of retaining new players for Dust 514
TL;DR - I help new players as much as I can so we have a growing playerbase. |
Michael Epic
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.29 18:15:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Again, I've no problem with you personally, Michael, but this particular statement does not seem to me to be indicative of a healthy attitude towards new players.
Ah, I don't even understand what you're saying or talking about. Did you skim my post or actually read it? Its the duality of man, Arkena. The game is hard...this game trumps COD, Battlefield, Halo, Warface, ect in terms of difficulty. This is not even close to an easy game and neither is EVE. Do you play EVE? If you do that should be reasonable to you that EVE is incredibly difficult and so is Dust.
New players don't stand a chance against SP stacked proto players...but they have to tough it out because they have no choice. I am all for expanding the NPE and making it easier to grow the player base. If CCP offers some sort of place for new players to grow and develop and graduate themselves into higher tier gameplay...I'll personally design flyers for Dust 514 and pay for them out of my own money for them to be printed and distribute them at high school's and colleges and walmarts everywhere around where I live to grow the player base. That's how much I believe in this game.
But I have no idea what you're saying and how embracing the truth is not a healthy attitude towards new player, so we'll just have to agree to disagree. That's the sensible thing to do o7. |
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