Nirwanda Vaughns wrote:also its moved over to a more Pay to Win mode now that the Lab doesn't produce officer weapons.
Now the only way to get a reasonable amount of any kind of officer gear is from strongboxes, yes we can get it from EOM salvage but really how often does that happen these days?
If someone has an extra $10 a week to spend on opening strongboxes then they will get far more officer gear than someone who isn't. CCP in their own words have said that the officer gear is very powerful which is why they removed it from the lab.
Thankfully though DUST is at such a stage that not many people are gonna be spending that $10 a week cos they've moved on to better pastures, but then there are some tryhards who feel the need to 'be better' than everyone and will splash the cash.
Also though i think we should just be able to trade all items, the PS3 (and thus dust) life is coming to an end. This holiday season more players will be treated to an XB1 or PS4 and our playerbase will shrink, its always a good sign that a console is all but done with when the latest FIFA/NBA/NFL/COD is either missed or scaled back and i think that CCP should just let us trade all our goods we have that may be on alts or from friends who no longer play ect and just let us go out with a huge bang. all them AUR modules and items everyone has just sitting in assets n the hope we'll be able to trade them soon, all the other bpos and boosters ect. just lets all have a bloody good old time splashing the isk and burning through everything we have lol
The playerbase actually won't shrink. Logic states it will flourish (potentially anyway)
Last year Sony built a PS3 factory/warehouse in Brazil. There is a strong number of the population in Brazil that has moved into a classification of sort of upper middle class-ish. What this means is that more PS3's will be bought this holiday season in Brazil, increasing the presence and population in the Latin-American community. Why do you think our numbers have been pretty steady since last year?
There was a massive drop in numbers from where they were at, but they've held steady for quite some time.
Just food for thought.