Just saying but did anyone else notice especially with the aid of http://eve-offline.net/?server=singularity that the day of the tank "Nerf" (relative opinions and whatnot) that we had a rather interesting drop in players across the entire week in comparison to the last week. Now sure people can go on and on about all sorts of stuff in balance and fun and whatnot. But to me this sounds like a range of 100-500 players were fine with the way tanks were and the starting of nerfs may have put their confidence in the game off.

Take this how you will just wanting to share a observation.

Or maybe once they stop crying about it and realise they have to learn to play the game and not just hit the "i win" button they will be back.

LOL. I've been playing the whole time going +10-1.

I fail to see how a system crash can kill your HDD

if there really was a chance of that CCP wouldnt be releasing it for Public use because of the media backlash they would get, NDA or no.

When the system locks up, and you restart, you get a message that says something like "Your system didn't shut down properly. The hard disc may be corrupted. The system will check and this may take up to two hours"

I can't speak for everyone else, but I tend to be on less and less as each build wears on. There's a bit of a rush to play right after a wipe, both to check out the new stuff and to try and get ahead of the SP curve. Once I've got my character in a place I'm relatively comfortable with, I'll play a bunch more to take advantage of the benefits gained by the early grinding. After that, without definitive information regarding the next wipe, I taper off bit by bit. Then the announcement comes and I have to burn off all my excess cash.

Rince. Repeat.

I'm pretty sure that's just either 1, Sony covering their arse or 2. Shoddy Sony Operating systems.

Just saying >.> really easy to solve a corrupt hard drive if you know what your doing. But oh god you might void your warentee! *eyeroll*

I think this had more to do with the stability issues created by the hotfix an the introduction of the squad bug.

Just saying but did anyone else notice especially with the aid of http://eve-offline.net/?server=singularity that the day of the tank "Nerf" (relative opinions and whatnot) that we had a rather interesting drop in players across the entire week in comparison to the last week. Now sure people can go on and on about all sorts of stuff in balance and fun and whatnot. But to me this sounds like a range of 100-500 players were fine with the way tanks were and the starting of nerfs may have put their confidence in the game off.

Take this how you will just wanting to share a observation.

Beyond that, I've really couldn't be bothered with DUST as such at the moment.

LOL. I've been playing the whole time going +10-1.

Funny thats how i felt every game had 3 tanks running around blasting everything that moved, You know the AR is point and shoot you could try learning to use it.

Funny, I kept saying the same about wannabe AV people. Instead they had a circle-jerk in IRC and the DEVS caved and make tanks much easier to kill.

It is all about preferred play style. I'm no good at the "gun game", which is why I hoped Dust would differentiate itself from the other gun games out there, and use the knowledge CCP have from EVE online to make vehicles fun.

Vehicles (especially the LAV) are the only things in this game that is killable with just one hit of anything, without any effort what so ever on the part of the shooter. Guns, even FG's via infantry, you have to get out there, be exposed, but the AV role you can practically be hiding behind a hill, drop a grenade on the ground, let loose a swarm, or to some extend fire a Forge gun blast, and as you are OHK killing the vehicle, they really can't evade.

I haven't had the freezing issue.

I still play somewhat regularly, just to test things and give feedback here when I discover an issue. Alot of people who I play regularly with won't bother with the game at the moment because they really don't think it's much fun.

Just saying but did anyone else notice especially with the aid of http://eve-offline.net/?server=singularity that the day of the tank "Nerf" (relative opinions and whatnot) that we had a rather interesting drop in players across the entire week in comparison to the last week. Now sure people can go on and on about all sorts of stuff in balance and fun and whatnot. But to me this sounds like a range of 100-500 players were fine with the way tanks were and the starting of nerfs may have put their confidence in the game off.

Take this how you will just wanting to share a observation.

the timing also coincided with the planetside 2 alpha squad promotion.. which I got. (and wish I didnt bother).

I think as the next wipe approaches many ppl will take a short rest.

A lot of people are like me and refuse to play until it's fixed. Right now, the game is so unstable that complete system lock ups are way too common.

Is CCP going to buy me a new PS3 when my existing one breaks due to corrupted hard drive? Of course not.

I won't be playing until it's clear that the risk of system freeze is much lower than it is now.

so does that mean the

"server full"

messages i get at night r really glitches?

My mind was just blown.

The game is bad. It's a sore delusion. That's the cause of the player drop.

Pure and simple.

Too stupid a choice to badly emulate the nauseatingly exploited conquest gamemode where you run 90 seconds and shoot 1 second (average across the scoreboard)

PS3 people are used to a way superior fps gaming experience where pace is fast and controls are good.

dust just doesn't cope, and ccp is simply trying to pull another cash milking stunt, this time from ps3 community, to care about making a deserving game.

Evidently ccp is clinging hard to the expectation that the ridiculously fanboyed head-up-asses people from eve will give a kickstart or keep the game afloat in some manner.

Then if you feel so negative about dust.......why are you in here posting??? Or are you intentionally just hanging around to troll and ruin everyone else's good time?
I hardly think that your accusation of ccp making a 'money milking' game is right, if you want to 'milk money' out of a franchise or whatever then you do it in the quickest time possible (hey there cod) instead of spending 5+ years developing a game. So your accusation doesn't have a leg to stand on.
if you really don't like dust, please LEAVE and move on!
Go play the true 'money milking' titles (MW1, MW2, MW3, BLACK OPS, BLACK OPS 2) that you fools buy into every goddam year, same recycled graphics engine, same recycled crap, same recycled voice overs, same recycled characters, and same recycled GOD AWFUL GUY WITH WYATT EARP MOUSTACHE!!!!!

Two reasons I get back to the forums from time to time:
1- for confirmation that my criticism of the game is right. this means that my understanding of what a good, balanced and fun game should should be is superior to that of the people still playing it. the lack of any valid, non-one line counter argumentation to my points proves this.
2- to post the just eye opening thread or reply, so that people who occasionally come by (from time to time, or just first time), get the right idea about the game, and don't waste their time on it

I loved the dust idea, but the game is a failure, a sore delusion, that I'd like to save others.
Additionally, if I weren't right, population would not decrease constantly and impressively like it does. It's exactly what's happening on eve. population keeps decreasing because there are major flaws in eve's ridiculous pvp system, that only very, very stupid fanboys appreciate: they don't realize that skill-less, pay to win, is a ridiculously big FAIL bullseye, that's being shot all over the place.

LOL. Dude, it's still in Beta. We are only testing the run-n-gun stuff and loading up the server to see if code and hardware can take the stress before go-live. And it's free to play, so what is anybody losing - unless they voluntarily bought in to the Beta. The game has gotten much better over the past few weeks. I had only two fails in several hours of play, instead of two fails an hour a few weeks ago. Progress.

(Why player numbers are dropping - Borderlands 2. Back soon, have to take a trip to Pandora and see a guy about a gun....)