WHY TIMMY DIDN'T PLAY DUST514

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Timmy who was mildly interested in dust514... He was a rather normal boy who liked gaming and played many other games, he was totally open to the idea of supporting a game he loves, much like he would support a band whose music he loves. He looked forward to such a game and intended to play it.

Dust514 was released and he downloaded the game. As soon as he started playing, he noticed players were divided into 4 man squads rather than simply being put into teams. He did not know whether to pick squad chat or team chat, he could never know if players were on one or the other or if players in other squads had microphones... Why didn't they just put players in Team Chat? It seemed needlessly complicated to him, he couldn't possibly be conscious of this ever match and gradually gave up. Timmy was disappointed, he found Dust514's gameplay rather uncompelling. Every match had players running around like headless chickens with assault rifles... For without communication, there can not be coordination and without that, there are no tactics and without that there are no counter tactics. The game's promise of deep futuristic combat with specialized roles was unfulfilled for him...

Fortunately, Timmy decided to join a corporation, the corporation members told him he had to buy a UVT to chat with them though.

He was shocked and angered!

He hardly knew these people! Why would he invest in talking to them? He wanted to have fun corp battling other corps, not chit chatting with other players. He was allowed in without UVT anyways though because he was so talented, he played a few corp battles and even won, but he never got attached to the community or the world of New Eden, he never developed that sense of rivalry and comradery with his corpmates that hooks other players, he could never convince himself to pay for such things, they were free in other games and in real life.

Time passed, Timmy played, but moved on as soon as another over-hyped FPS was released. He loaded it into his PS3 and saw players running around like headless chickens. There was no suspense, no sense of persistence, no deep character development, but atleast he had voice chat and that made his experiences far more organic and memorable with his real life friends. He never became conscious of being part of something larger with dust and so it was no different from this game, he played this new game, running around the same maps over and over, yelling at people, telling them how terrible they were and how pissed he was about it, much like a headless chicken, it was fun. Eventually he deleted dust514 from his HDD and lived happily ever after.
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