Atikali Havendoorr
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Posted - 2013.03.14 23:06:00 -
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GeneralButtNaked wrote:Too many people judging what they expect to receive from CCP over the next year, instead of looking at what we have now. What you can download from the PSN store is what counts, not what CCP is promising. And the package you can download today is a five map, two mode lobby shooter with a ridiculously high level progression, and dated graphics. It-¦s not strange that people have those expectation. I have been one of them myself. There has been talk about some groundbreaking features and integration with Eve, which sound super cool. The game itself mention features that is not there, but not a word about many many things that could be of value. Just take the simple thing of entering the battlespace. Spawning. The game doesn-¦t say that random spawning is the default, and point spawning is something extra. That the buttons change should there be a fixed spawn point. And that you only under some circumstances can abort a spawning in progress (I have played for more than a month and read things on the forum, but still not figured this one out).
Neither the game, nor the website, gives you any information about what are bugs, what are features, and what is to come. And when. No timeplan whatsoever.
I think the way CCP communicates with the players is a bit strange and repellant for the major public. The website doesn-¦t give you anything valuable. It speaks about things, like the different factions and corporations, which are useless. The factions does not have any mean for a while, and the corp thing is old stuff from past builds.
One thinks that CCP would update things in coherence with the open beta. But no.
The one and only way to get both info and give feedback of any sort is via the forum. But that is really for the more devoted players. I-¦ve actually found a manual on the forum. Hooray! But it dates back to may last yearGǪ Those who just want to scan through the most basal things gets nothing. This is a beta, but there is no proper bug report system. There is the ticket system, but I have several times been told from CCP that I should use the forum instead.
The game gives you the impression that it is practically finished, and just minor features and under-the-hood things are left. Like Google mail was. After all, it has been in closed beta for almost a year, so it seams reasonable. And the game actually charge you for features and enhancements.
But you get sooo screwed. And that is what makes people disappointed.
+1 for your post btw.
As for the video "review", and all the reactions to it, it-¦s no good commercial for the game. No matter how bad the review was, the hatred from the EveGǪ oh, sorry, Dust players make him gain support just for the pure rage.
I actually rather have a bunch of those reprehensible CoD players than not. That gives the game a wider and more mixed user base, and makes the game more vivid and colorful.
I was actually surprised to see that the majority of the hardcores and fanboys stem from Eve, and not from another (preferably console) FPS. The whole point with Dust is to mix player types. So far, not so good.
Tex Mex Aztec wrote:I admire CCPs presence in the community, but making this far-from-finished game an open beta has already tainted far too many experiences. And even worse, they are accepting money for an unfinished product.
This. Exactly this.
Avinash Decker wrote:I really dont think that this game isnt all the complicated although the fitting system , skill system , and market system is probably the reasons new players thinks it is, but on the ground there's nothing special about it besides losing your stuff every time you die , but since you buy everything in mass and since money can be easy to come buy it real doesnt mean all that much imo. I been playing since replication and I fail to see how this game is close to as "harsh" as Eve online.
Just my conclusion.
The hardcoreness seems to lie in not getting nuts because of slow menus, someone mentioned always having to press right in the marketplace to scroll through, spawn points disappearing and you being spawned in another place while you chose suit and not being able to abort or change, no grenade throw while sprinting, being matched with passive SP farmers who camp in the mountains or against veteran stompers, and until recently being spawned among a bunch of reddiesGǪ Stuff like that. |