I am of the opinion that CCP should save its advert money for a more polished product. The more people that see this game as it is, opens a potential for future player's that are unwilling to give the game a second chance.

Would like to note that I don't see any dust 514 advertisments on any website on a computer that had its cookies scrubbed and one I havent been to a dust 514 website before.

Not sure what advertising algorithms google uses to advert dust or eve but once I do they become overwhelming majority of the side ads.

Then their advert strategy is even dumber, focusing on people already interested.

The consequences of being launched. The focus moves to marketing over content or balance.

I get the same feeling.

It's a beta, a real beta, but it's being marketed as if it were a released product.

The discontinuity is palpable.

Every time I see another general audience ad or a special sale I have to work harder to remind myself that this isn't a real game yet and it's ok to have all these broken and missing parts.

And I've been here for nine months. The new guys don't have that experience as a counterweight.

NEWS FLASH: ITS NOT A REAL BETA

I have yet to see a single fix or improvement that other game betas were not capable of, the only difference here is CCP is slow to the punch and the beta is in 1+ year of 'development' And by development I mean, they ran out of cash and are now milking the hardcore fanbois for every cent they can get out of them b/c they can't get a releasable version in time.

From what I understand this is more of another gateway into the New Eden Galaxy. So EvE is the money maker and this is just playing around money. As I understand it this game could lose money and they would still be ahead. Eve started out with a very small development team and has grown in members every year. I beleive even WOW can't say this. THey have a small investor base, so they are not pumping money out to them, and (from what I've heard) putting the money back into the company. Also they are in beta and selling products in a free game.

I was also thinking the other day this is a free to play game but you could look at it like a 50 cent a month game. It costs 50 cents for a UVT which I feel most people can justify buying, which will add up. Then you factor in all the people who want this vanity suit or that, this game could be very profitable for CCP. Also there adverts are good to help get mor people in, to then pay more money for a game that isn't even released yet. And as I said it basically has EvE money paying for it.

CCP has invested a lot into this project, but isn't betting the whole farm on it just yet. If the game fails they cut it off like a petulant limb and stick with what they know will work EVE. The slow integration plan and promise from last years fan fest is evidence of that fact. I do not wish for Dust to be severed and left on the operating room floor. The potential it has is to great, although painfully unrealized.

Having said that, what do you consider the last build? Swings of the nerf hammer barely count. For me it feels nothing has significantly changed since September when they removed skirmish 1.0 and added the LAR, that was 5 months ago. Far more has been lost since then, from the removal of the larger variety vehicle modules to active scanners. Its taken a year but my patience has become thread bare. I like the game, the genera, New Eden but this is becoming a let down and getting to the point where even I am having trouble telling myself "its a Beta, it'll get better." Now that i see CCP has started mass advertisement for people to come partake of a truthfully unfinished game, it's causing me to loose patience.

ok
i saw something that really disturbed me

"I really can't believe that anyone on the DEV team would look at the game as it is currently and think it was ready for distribution"

The game is FTP

JESUS
why are people still complaining about the game like ccp said its done and like they know how long it takes to make a game and have a half decent beta test

it's not like there sitting around doing nothing here
they are working and you keep pushing them

do you want there end product to be a crappy half finished piece of junk due to the fact you keep pushing them ?
just drop the case or stop playing until the game has gone through its so called full release at the moment they shouldn't have to make any promises

or meet any demands
you don't have to pay them so you are not necessarily a consumer
but you are supporting them

you will have to wait
and if ccp knows what there doing they will not rush anything for a (quick fix)
without thinking things through

nerfing buffing changing stuff can and most of the time do cause other problems

in one game
(nerf this gun it works to well against this unit type)
the class that uses that game becomes less effective and then the unit type it countered becomes more powerful against a unit type not even considers before hand

a lot of planing and thinking is going into this game give it some time

ok
i saw something that really disturbed me

"I really can't believe that anyone on the DEV team would look at the game as it is currently and think it was ready for distribution"

The game is FTP

JESUS
why are people still complaining about the game like ccp said its done and like they know how long it takes to make a game and have a half decent beta test

it's not like there sitting around doing nothing here
they are working and you keep pushing them

do you want there end product to be a crappy half finished piece of junk due to the fact you keep pushing them ?
just drop the case or stop playing until the game has gone through its so called full release at the moment they shouldn't have to make any promises

or meet any demands
you don't have to pay them so you are not necessarily a consumer
but you are supporting them

you will have to wait
and if ccp knows what there doing they will not rush anything for a (quick fix)
without thinking things through

nerfing buffing changing stuff can and most of the time do cause other problems

in one game
(nerf this gun it works to well against this unit type)
the class that uses that game becomes less effective and then the unit type it countered becomes more powerful against a unit type not even considers before hand

a lot of planing and thinking is going into this game give it some time

ok
i saw something that really disturbed me

"I really can't believe that anyone on the DEV team would look at the game as it is currently and think it was ready for distribution"

The game is FTP

JESUS
why are people still complaining about the game like ccp said its done and like they know how long it takes to make a game and have a half decent beta test

it's not like there sitting around doing nothing here
they are working and you keep pushing them

do you want there end product to be a crappy half finished piece of junk due to the fact you keep pushing them ?
just drop the case or stop playing until the game has gone through its so called full release at the moment they shouldn't have to make any promises

or meet any demands
you don't have to pay them so you are not necessarily a consumer
but you are supporting them

you will have to wait
and if ccp knows what there doing they will not rush anything for a (quick fix)
without thinking things through

nerfing buffing changing stuff can and most of the time do cause other problems

in one game
(nerf this gun it works to well against this unit type)
the class that uses that game becomes less effective and then the unit type it countered becomes more powerful against a unit type not even considers before hand

a lot of planing and thinking is going into this game give it some time

NEWS FLASH: ITS NOT A REAL BETA

I have yet to see a single fix or improvement that other game betas were not capable of, the only difference here is CCP is slow to the punch and the beta is in 1+ year of 'development' And by development I mean, they ran out of cash and are now milking the hardcore fanbois for every cent they can get out of them b/c they can't get a releasable version in time.

Just because games like BF3 and CoD want to release their games and do fixes as they are played(with a "finished" product) Doesn't mean that is what CCP wants to focus on. Give them time...yes it has been a year in Beta..but good things come to those who wait....

On an unrealted note what's with the lasted shoots all starting with the letter D lol

Standard progresion

A = Alien Vs Preditor 1999
B = Battlefield - 2002
C = COD - 2003
D = TBC - recently released