+1

I'm a newbie to Dust, but I'm heavily interested and invested in New Eden. (Capsuleer since '09). I read blogs, chronicles, listen to podcasts, follow on all the social media i can.

I've been eagerly following news on Dust since the initial announcement way back when; but since I had no access to a PS3, never got a chance to play...

Whelp, now I finaly got my hands on one four days ago and I haven't played any other games on it.
It's a great game: deep, challenging, and beautiful.

Here's a quick timeline of my experience:

Day 1:
WOOoo! New game! I've been looking forward to this forever!
Match 1/30: TRY ALL the things!
K/D ratio positive.
Buy AUR

Day 2:
I want to fly dropships. Read up. Try it. This is HARD.
Good. It should be. Need SP.
Keep footslogging.
K/D ratio still positive.

Day 3:
Ooh, looks like I've moved out of the rookie battles.
Death. Death. Defeat. Rinse. Repeat.
That's ok, new eden is harsh and unforgiving.
(4 hours later...)
8 kill assists and 0 Kills.

Day 4:
Back to the grind...
Another 6 hours online, NOT ONE kill.
This is not about skill at all, everyone has uber gear.
Can't really be bothered anymore. Well done.


tl;dr
I am a HUGE New Eden fan, I keep up with the media on the subject daily.
I came in ready for the learning cliff. I was prepared to stick with Dust, hand over real cash, support the devs, ignore the detractors and grind my way up.

But I'm bored of losing clones when I'm at 10% armour before I've even seen my assailant.
If this game can do that to ME, I hate to think how long that target audience would last...

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So, CCP...
Higher level Mercs demand higher wages.
Sometimes a corp doesn't want to pay top dollar so they hire the little guys.

Wonder what fanfest will say about this facet of tbe cluster.