True Adamance wrote:
AS I pointed out earlier honour is just a term gamer like to pretend applies to their own gaming habits but is entirely devoid in those they face making their failed efforts more significant and "righteous" for whatever purpose they feel compelled to tell themselves.
Having played a franchise of games (Souls Series) since its inception you really have to work into or around the "honour" culture that the players tend to develop. Though even then that specific term is very broad, nebulous, and vague. Honour to some is not using specific over powered fit's like the infamous "Pushlock Katana's" [demon's souls], "GiantDad's" [dark souls,] or "Havellyn" [dark souls 2], to others it is specific kind of behavior your embody with emphasises direct combat over more complex manoeuvres and strategies like Back Stabbing, Counter Back Stabbing, Countering Counter Back Stabbing, Dead Angling, Parrying, etc, or even down to useless arguments used to demean an opponent who beat them within the mechanics of the game using the tools available to them.
I've heard every Honour based argument in the book and none of them have merit outside of organised contests in which both parties agree to the rules of the contest before it takes place, after which any broken rules can clearly be determined and the players integrity called into question of the bout restarted.
Honour in gaming, relative to me, is a self imposed standard I hold myself to but honestly cannot expect others to agree with or follow. Embarrassingly quoting Renton Thurston (**** you Kagehoshi) "Don't beg for things, do it yourself, or you won't get anything."
Honestly, if after reading what I wrote, you still dont get it, I doubt you ever will. I will try one more time though.
Is Dust a 1 player game with a large campaign mode full of stories and activities? No
Is Dust a subscription based game? No
Is Dust a retail game, where after you buy your copy/license, you have a reasonable expectation of support from the company? No
Is Dust a classic FPS thats been around for a decade and is guaranteed to have its own steady cult like following? No.
So what is Dust?
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-------------------> DUST 514 is a free to play,
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Why does that matter? Because the player base IS the content. Your team/squad, thats the friendly content, the enemy team is the enemy content. Without other players to animate the various battlefield roles on both teams....you DONT HAVE a game, you just have a bunch of empty maps and useless assets.
It gets more serious than that. In addition to being the content, the playerbase is also the revenue stream that justifies this very games existence.
More players --> more money --> more dev resources --> continued support and resources to develop missing Amarr stuff. Less players --> less money --> less dev resources --> decline and placeholders. Every player that quits is a double blow. Reduced content, reduced revenue. Which reduces the game for the ones who stay. And reduces the chance of a PC/PS4 port happening.
So there you go! I suspect you know all this, and dont care anyway. You think this is all about "honor", in which someone will try to shame or invalidate your right to video game greatness. It has nothing to do with what people think of you. Its everything to do with sustainability.