Depends on whether or not I can quickly log in to play a match, or if it takes 2 hours before it finds one

barely, will probably revisit if 1.3 is interesting

It's definitely getting harder to play, played one or two matches(can't remember tbh) over the past 3 weeks, waiting for the urge to play to come back, hopefully that will be sometime soon.

The silence on the forums feels like CCP is trying to wean the remaining vocal playerbase off the game, perhaps to make more gentle the impending grace stoke.

Patches and hotfixes notwithstanding, Dust has achieved what it is going to achieve. CCP's reputation as a developer worth or not worth investing in has also gained or lost pretty much everything it had to gain or lose from Dust.

The game doesn't seem to be functioning as much of a testbed anymore, except perhaps for iterative balancing changes on existing mechanics/systems. Perhaps it's still being used as a testbed for RMT generation.

All that's left is the joy of combat, but Dust's unaddressed problems result in 5 or 10 bad matches for one good match. Dust has been essentially severed from New Eden and the long night is coming.

In the meantime this merc is staying in station and seeing just how much topshelf booze, drugs, hookers and madness tens of millions of ISK can buy.

We fought like champions for what might have been. That battle is over now, but all is not lost, because damn, it's still good to be immortal.

If there's redemption for us mercs or CCP, it lays on the far side of the void. It's like that old soldier's prayer: "God, if there is a god, save my soul, if i have a soul."