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Stupid Drunk1
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Posted - 2012.07.29 01:49:00 -
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It is undeniable: games as a whole are getting easier each year, with more handholding, simpler control schemes, extended tutorials, and a relentless drive to seize the money of even the most drooling incompetent.
Simultaneously, games are getting more immersive and addictive, with the psychological feedback loops. What does a hobby with ever-increasing levels of addiction, ease, and immersion for its users create? A sense of entitlement - an entitlement that is a threat to every GÇÿhardGÇÖ game out there, but especially to, DUST514.
Despite CCPGÇÖs explicit marketing of EVE as a harsh universe full of mayhem and murder, there is a silent, ignorant herd of players who genuinely believe that DUST514 is just like the other FPSs on the market - the, hand-holding FPSs who will pat you on the back, wipe away your tears, and give you a 30-second respawn with no consequences.
When these people discover Dust514 is not a Call of Duty (CoD) they rush to the forums and loudly beat out their indignation and horror at encountering loss or danger, or both.
What is most interesting about these threads is not the mere fact that some idiot got blown up and was upset about it, but the absolutely unfounded presumption of safety expressed in such outraged terms. One notable flameout accused CCP of being GÇÿmisleading in its advertisingGÇÖ because DUST514 GÇÿreally is a beta
The ignorance demonstrated by this class of players is not an isolated problem, but part of a growing and dangerous trendGÇÖ.
It is this combination of ignorance and entitlement that threatens Dust514
It is this combination of ignorance and entitlement that threatens Dust if we could believe in the comforting Enlightenment fantasies that reason and education could save the day - the hope that someone coming to EVE:DUST 514 would do their research, understand the nature of the game, and participate in this most difficult of games with their eyes open.
Of course, one of the most horrifying lessons of EVE:DUST 514 is that the Enlightenment ideals are false; the power of reason doesnGÇÖt actually lift the population out of the muck, because theyGÇÖre too busy AFK
Consider what a player will need to do in order to be GÇÿgoodGÇÖ at Dust514. You will need situational awareness; you will need regional awareness. You will need to know whatGÇÖs going on in the market. You will need to know whatGÇÖs happening in future patches, so you need to keep track of dev blogs and adjust your training accordingly. You will need to know how to fit a vehicle or dropsuit properly for a task, which means you need a passable knowledge of skill system. You will need social skills, or youGÇÖll end up friendless, isolated, or the victim of a scam. You need financial sensibility - the ability to either live on a budget, or make so much isk that you donGÇÖt need a budget. And since most of these skills are pitted against other players, you must do them /better/ than the other players; what passed for competence in other FPSs is a laughable joke in Dust514 2012.
By contrast, in a game like CoD, BF3, MAG. You can dawdle around acting as if youre in an all-green clownsuit and never be punished for your ignorance. |
Stupid Drunk1
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Posted - 2012.07.29 02:25:00 -
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Xocoyol Zaraoul wrote:Well you can "dance around without a care" in DUST too and "dawdle around acting as if youre in an all-green clownsuit and never be punished for your ignorance."
EDIT: I understand that you are trying to say that the EVE universe will be cutthroat, and it certainly will be, but in DUST you can still ignore everything if you just want to solo around in the Arena or Battlemoon and shoot people in "public" battles that no one cares about.
I would have to disagree, seeing as in EvE players that can do anything in highsec, even get a ship for free, so they can fly. Using throwaway charaters is the equivlent of miltia gear too, characters no matter how much you killed dont cost you anything.
In DUST514 as with EvE those who wish to be ignorant will remain in high sec.
Those using miltia gear are just not creating alts which they would do to wage war inflicting economic loss without taking any loss yourself, if militia gear did not exist.
Seemingly you write your objectionable opinion withoput an understanding of Eve it seems.
One of the stark lessons of Burn Jita, is that the vast majority of players in EVE are completely unplugged from the gameGÇÖs community; they do not read forums, check twitter, read blogs, or keep track of the gaming media. Jita (0.95) is located in high sec space. Same will be true with DUST 514. Diffrence we dont have to play with them at all.
Despite more than a month of warning - with unprecedented alerts posted by CCP on the login screen - countless freighters blundered into Jita during a invasion and died, their pilots screaming their unjustified surprise, running to the forums for the first time to announce that (gasp) EVE wasnGÇÖt actually safe.
Im just glad CCP doesnt prevent these moments of asshatery all together as would developers of CaLL of Duty would |
Stupid Drunk1
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Posted - 2012.07.29 02:42:00 -
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xprotoman23 wrote:people take this game way too seriously.
It's a shooter you shoot things. if you can't do that you die.
Then CoD Players will be right at home just like any shooter... |
Stupid Drunk1
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Posted - 2012.07.29 02:50:00 -
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Xocoyol Zaraoul wrote:xprotoman23 wrote:people take this game way too seriously. xprotoman23 wrote:Seriously all day i've been in games where people do absolutely nothing besides sit and die. get them the eff out this beta.
This plus 1, kudo and liked. |
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Posted - 2012.07.29 05:57:00 -
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Reading the post above pure logic at its best, for them to do a complete 180% and become CoD(dumbed down) would be slap across the symbolic face of what is New Eden of EvE.
As long as null sec is retardedly hard, where even I will feel the full range of emotions, noobs can infest 1.0, I will be happy man. |
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