Yes CCP give the protostompers more content so they can be entertained and continue to stomp noobs, scaring away the majority of the lifeblood of your game.

Rat spoke of splitting the players by skill at the Fanfest Dust Roundtable.

That will grow the playerbase if the new bros can fight each other rather than being 0-13 stat pads until they quit after a few days.

http://dustboard.com/global

Down at the bottom you can see that hundreds of new characters are created a day.

Retaining some of them longer than a few sessions is the key to growing the player base.

Fighting attrition.

Give them real modes, real rewards but free of the 6 man / 50 million + SP proto death squads.

CCP will do this because that is a huge focus of the company right now, as reflected by their changes in Eve Online and what we have seen so far here on Dust 514.

As a gaming company they have to create an environment that new players can experiment with the game with out the frustration of competing with the top tier players.

They have high sec in Eve Online for this and they are changing mechanics to make the end game more accessible to small groups, and this new match making system with do the same here on Dust 514.

Grouping the new players together on BOTH sides of the matches is in essence a High Sec for Dust 514.

Once they get up to speed and start stomping the ever living **** out of their few new bros, they will be dropped into Proto Stomp Hell...

Those that make it that far will have a much higher retention rate than those that are dropped immediately into the fray as they are now.

It will be a great change for our community, as it will actually allow the player base to grow.

Well as long as people keep paying for AUR, devs won't feel a need to make dramatic change. They already said PVE will be like a training thing...which blows.

It seems like the dev team is faced with decisions that have a linear path to $.

I'm not sure that's the case obviously, but it seems like someone would see that bringing old players back to use $ on the new stuff they've added would create far more revenue than any other AUR using feature provided to the current playerbase.

I'm not sure I agree with this. I think Rattati knows where it needs to go. Dust was a killed game less than a year ago. There's no other way to look at it, someone at CCP thought it was time to put a nail in Dust's coffin with the Legion announcement. If that wasn't intentional then I think it looks even worse as a decision.

We are months removed from there never being another expansion. I think we are getting ahead of ourselves with the opportunities that the current dev team has to work with.

There aren't subscriptions to track so I think it's safe to say the only thing a FTP game can present to investors/shareholders is player retention and their spending habits. It's obvious that our small playerbase is spending well, now it's time to work on the other item.

Just saying you're director of a corporation, that's probably in the best position in the game to create fun for its members, but here you are on the forums asking CCP to do the work for you, and not even providing suggestions, just asking them to 'do things faster'.

Going 45/0 in a pub only shows your scrubbiness and not your skills...

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So much this.

RDV takes three minutes to drop my tank? Great job CCP, glad to see that that hasn't changed in the months I took off.

Absolutely horrid FPS on certain maps, and yet those maps stay in the rotation because otherwise there would be even less content to use.

In the year since they announced legion, there have been no substantial improvements to the performance of the game, it is still shoddy as hell. What they have done is add a metric ton of monetization options because making more money off of people who don't know their track record is the definition of success for CCP.

Until this game can maintain a solid 30 FPS for every map, it will always be little more than a joke. I only fire up dust to boot around with my friends and slowly dwindle my supplies of officer weapons.

CCP can dream all they want, and the CPM can whisper hype all they dare, but as long as the performance of the game is so horrid it will never have a hope of growing.

Why would you play infantry in Dust when you can get much better gameplay in any number of other shooters, even older ones?

This.^

The #1 absolute reason why many players think Dust is no longer fun is because of poor matchmaking. If matchmaking works like it was suppose to and if Scotty stops being drunk, you will be amazed on how many players will come back.