TotalBreakage
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.10.05 14:40:00 -
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It all starts with MAG (yes i said it ). I love this game, it was genuinely a very fun game and I logged around 1400 hours into it, more than any other video games I played combined. Truly amazing game.
When people started talking about MAG dying it was hard to believe, but when clans started falling apart and good friends we met on MAG stopped coming on or started playing rarely, it all became real.
It was around this time we heard about Dust, and slowly through the course of many MAG group gaming sessions that would go into the night, the word spread. The word of a "hardcore" dynamic shooter tied in with an MMO game, where your actions would truly make an impact and clan(corp) support would be immense. To us it sounded like heaven. "This might be MAG's replacement" we said. For a game to truly replace MAG would be incredible for us.
After hours of in game and forum discussion on Dust the MAG community began to support this idea, we really want(ed) this idea to work. This is why you see SO many MAG players playing this beta, why clans from MAG are taking over the Dust corp scene, this is our last hope.
Is my dream coming true?- I remained optimistic ever since hearing about the game, and even when joining(of course with initial dissapoitment) the beta in June. My inital dissapoitment dissapeared when I told my self "its just a closed beta, its got a long way to go". But after months of playing, I cant say I've seen much improvement for the amount of time that has passed. The "its still beta" excuse is becoming decreasingely valid. I now feel that this game might not replace the epicness of playing MAG.
But there is still hope, and I believe this lies in community interaction. Corp and economic warfare could completely out weigh the bad FPS mechanics for me. I joined up with the Entropy Virus community to experience a community with a unique outlook, that has the potential to yield some crazy fun gameplay. But overall, I hope that CCP dosent **** up too much with balancing and continues developing corp gameplay and this could turn out to be a great game. I am not playing Dust currentely, as I am studying abroad, but I am carefully following all the developments of the game and the community.
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