DUST Search - F2P but P2C ???

Berserker007 wrote:

ok, as well all know; this game is 100% free to play, as you dont really need to buy anything. However; at the moment (maybe will change), it really is P2C, or pay 2 compete as i put it.

At the moment, unless you are running boosters you are at quite a disadvantage SP wise in what you can get versus someone who has boosters.

I did a bit of a calc; and for a month of both passive & active boosters; you use roughtly 7k x 8 = 56k AUR for weekly boosters, then throw in two 3 day boosters (as most months are 30-31 days, not 28 ... as not using the 30 merc booster here).

So thats 56k + 7k = 64k AUR. If you look on the PSN store $20 equals 43k AUR. SO essentially per month you would be paying about $30 to compete in this game. Thats $360 a year to really stay relatively competitive. So essentially for a F2P game, to actually compete you are paying double the price of what an EvE subscription is (right?).

My question to CCP is please justify this ; and to the community, how do you feel about having to spend more to compete on Dust which is F2P, then EvE which is subscription based ?


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Marston VC SVER True Blood Unclaimed. 92	Posted - 2013.01.26 18:37:00 - [1] - Quote Berserker007 wrote: ok, as well all know; this game is 100% free to play, as you dont really need to buy anything. However; at the moment (maybe will change), it really is P2C, or pay 2 compete as i put it. At the moment, unless you are running boosters you are at quite a disadvantage SP wise in what you can get versus someone who has boosters. I did a bit of a calc; and for a month of both passive & active boosters; you use roughtly 7k x 8 = 56k AUR for weekly boosters, then throw in two 3 day boosters (as most months are 30-31 days, not 28 ... as not using the 30 merc booster here). So thats 56k + 7k = 64k AUR. If you look on the PSN store $20 equals 43k AUR. SO essentially per month you would be paying about $30 to compete in this game. Thats $360 a year to really stay relatively competitive. So essentially for a F2P game, to actually compete you are paying double the price of what an EvE subscription is (right?). My question to CCP is please justify this ; and to the community, how do you feel about having to spend more to compete on Dust which is F2P, then EvE which is subscription based ? i think ill try to justify it here...... FIRST: that 20$ pack your talking about gives you 40k AUR AND a 30 day SP booster, so for example ive bought two merc packs so far, thats 40$ for 80k AUR AND i have 60 days worth of active sp boosters, the only thing i spend money on is my passive boosters which i have about 10 weeks worth of AUR to do anyway. SECOND: now that i have a 60 day booster, im playing religiously to use it to its upmost. Thats what anyone who bought a booster should be doing because of the daily cap they added. As my skills are going now, im expecting to be in my B series suit within the next 30 days, 15 days should net me around 1 million sp, and im spending another million on "core" skills right now. (making my type II suit as valuable as possible). after that ill be heading strate to proto which will be another 15 days are so depending on what i decide to do then, so basically i have my skill tree planeed for the next 45 days or so. THIRD: Now, by the time i get to my b series im expecting everyone to be hitting either the A-series, or start getting good with the type II suit, as most people i see now has militia gear on. Once i hit Proto im expecting most other people to be hitting b-series. Now trust me when i say that you can be VERY competitive with a type II suit, let alone a b-series. But now that i hit proto on my dropsuits, ill be stuck with that, i hit the ceiling so i cant go any futher up. Now within the next month after that, many others will also start unlocking their proto suits too, So even though my boosters got me there faster, people without them will surely catch up eventually, especially considering im not really willing to spend too much more on the game (atleast not right now). CONCLUSION: so is it pay to compete? right now it probably is since most people haven't hit that ceiling yet, and this is truly only relevant in corp battles when your playing against other people who have also bought boosters. however as the game gets older and more and more people start to hit that ceiling people will be able to compete no matter who they are. In my honest opinion once everyone hits the 3-5 million SP they should be able to compete with just about anything depending on how specialized they are.