Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
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Posted - 2015.03.07 13:17:00 -
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It is not just one thing. It is an amalgamation of issues. Going in no particular order:
1. Matchmaking. Being thrown right out of the Academy into people with 50, 60, 100 times more SP than you is going to be frustrating when they have more fittings, more health, more damage, more everything.
2. The game doesn't do anything special. It doesn't have anything in it that makes people want to come back to it. It has all these fittings but that is completely out of reach of new players. Same for Planetary Conquest not being too different and, again, completely out of reach.
3. The game is difficult to understand. Fittings and SP are quite strange and without any kind of tutorial, the ultra new player might get confused and move on.
4. Bad production values. Poor sound, shoddy visuals, lag that is quite common and often unplayable, and framerate issues that make the game feel sluggish.
5. In the line of 2; if people want to play a FPS that you go about shooting the enemy team, they have better made games to look at. While Call of Duty or Battlefield may not be your cup of tea, the games are better made, have less bugs, and are easier to just jump into and shoot people.
6. There is a tiny community. Look at Titanfall. Not many people are playing TF at the moment because, well, no one is playing Titanfall. Same goes for when I was playing Loadout. I saw that the average player count in the last two months was just over 600 and I didn't go back. Playing a game that has a small community feels like playing a dying game. This is even more true when the game is completely contingent on having other players to shoot at you.
7. Three modes. All online. Only 2 teams. There is no free for all, Capture the Flag, or any other more unique type of game mode. There is Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill, or Single Point King of the Hill.
8. Attitude in the community. We are mostly nihilists, which is completely understandable given how things have turned out. "We can't do what we wanted on the PS3 so we are making Legion to be what DUST was supposed to be on the PC!" Okay, when can we expect it. *silence for 10 months.* Okay, well at least we have FanFest to look forward to. "Nothing about DUST or Legion will be mentioned at FanFest but some of the devs will be there if you want to talk to them at the pub crawl." CCP has not, or at least have put out the perception, that they do not care about the community and their game. We are the dirty little secret on the side: We are so important to CCP when we are alone, with no one else around. But the second that anyone serious comes along, like FanFest/EVE players/Journalists, we are supposed to hide underneath the bed while CCP gives the more important thing all their tender affection.
9. Apathy, or perceived apathy, from CCP. The 'open map = vehicle fall through the ground' bug, the 'sprint bug', the 'tank overheat bug', the silence that CCP likes to pull, it all points to them not really caring too much. No, not the bugs existing (that can happen in any game) but they were around for how long? And how often did CCP come out and say "we are working on it"? I know with the vehicle-eating ground Rattati eventually said "we know about it, hard to fix" but what about all the other times when we were not even sure if the bug was known? Again, this might just be that things behind the scenes are difficult and they are doing the best they can, but how about just being honest with what is going on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGhiqHr3Xso
10. It is on the PS3. That wasn't a problem 18 months ago when the PS4 wasn't out. Not such an issue 12 months ago when the PS4 was pretty new. Now, with "next gen" being "current gen" and the prices of the consoles coming to stability, people that would be interested in DUST would have to "to back" in order to play it. Compound to this all the previous issues and you have a game that is going to have zero growth.
I say that Legion is one of the barometers you can use to show the health of DUST. "We can't do it on PS3" shows that DUST will never be what it was promised to be. When you look at the total silence in regards to Legion, with some getting all hot and bothered over 4 seconds of product placement, you can draw some pretty unflattering pictures.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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