Kevall,

Well thought out post and you touch on some solid concerns about the tone of the community. I believe the point was made previously that it certainly feels that without some fairly high level of outrage the needle doesn't move with CCP much, however, this could very well be perception gap with the community.

That said, I want to address the above excerpt directly. You are correct, the monetization strategy is now very clear. There is a reason that I don't play "Clash of Clans" and similar mobile games...you pay to win. Pay to win can be defined as having to pay for a distinct advantage in game that you normally couldn't get else where or couldn't be obtained in a reasonable amount of time though in-game effort. For all but the most casual player, this game is clearly drifting into that area. When you offer AUR only accelerations that directly Impact in-match advantages and larger scale reasources generated quickly become necessary items for competitive play...we've hit the pay to win zone.

Additionally, Dust514 is NOT a popular mobile free to play game nor should it seek to simply replicate the model in this format. I honestly excepted better as a customer. I have no problem with a working and healthy monetization system...but not the road we seem to be on now. I suppose we could have seen this coming a bit given CCP Rouge's background.

As for rumor comment about the lifespan of Dust and future systems it maybe on being foreshadowed by the implied progression / monetization structure I will tell you the same thing i have told, Cross, IWS, SirManBoy, and Soraya...comments like that at this point MUST come from CCP or all they do is sow confusion. Do not get me wrong, I was very interested in your fairly strong implication but until it is said publicly by CCP that's throwing a squirrel to chase in the room. I want CCP to address this if it is in fact part of their current behind the scenes vision and direction to provide clarity to the player (customer) base.

Again, I appreciate your commentary but took direct issue with the points above.

*Edited for atrocious ipad typos.

You know if you think about it, the current Mobile Factory and Warbarge remind me a lot of the old EVE Learing skills, the skills that would increase passive SP generation rate? You pretty much would sign up for EVE, set the skill queue up to train those skills, and then come back a month+ later at level 5, because training anything before optimizing your SP/day rate was basically a waste of time.

There is a reason they removed those skills

This is why passive component generation should be the lesser of total generation, with the majority being active. If most of my components come from active gameplay, I have far fewer issues with leveling up the passive factory, because its production rate is not a massive portion (if not all) of my production. I fear that CCP may be trying to cater a bit too much to those who can't play often. I get that people have lives, myself included, and cant play as much as they would like. I think *some* passive benefit and a cap on active benefit are great for people who can't play as much...but staking 100% of it into passive completely devalues the effort of those who can play often. This is why Hybrid systems work best.