Aurum and plex is what will keep new players around. In eve it takes about seven days to be competitive the plex system hepls new players right off the bat with isk. In turn eve players gets 30 days of free play.

Dust aurum is what new players need to be semi competive until they have enough isk and sp to get better gear. I agree the core gameplay needs to be better.

No disrespect but dust is for nerds aka smart people. My son is 13 years old and he knows everything about dust, but he's an honor student. He took the time to read everything.

So you have to have some type of intellect to play this shooter, most gamers don't. Im almost 40 this is the type of games i like. I have to think about everything. I also have a job meaning i will spend money on dust.

CCP history with eve along with the adults who spend will keep dust trust it will get better. Dust will have a small community that spends money.

If my 13 year old son can play dust with no problem then so can i.

Jah bless.

Unfortunately, for once, I agee with Panther Alpha. This game isn't for "smart people". It's for those who are dedicated enough to put time into the game to fully understand the ins and outs, or even the basic SP system. You don't need to be an "honors student" to play the game.

I disagree with him on the metagaming part, though, you need to do something in a very well-thought out manner to get anywhere in this game. Panther, try to get an alt into a big corp and to sabotage their match. Double dog dare ya.

It seems some people completely misunderstood the OP. He's saying the controls and gameplay of Dust is not to standard ie the FPS side. Sure all the meta stuff and rpg stuff is great but when you look at Dust as an FPS it's sub par. Dust is being advertised as an mmofps not mmorpg so naturally a fan of fps games will download it and go WTF is this?

There have been tons of threads pleading to CCP to get FPS gameplay down first but they didn't listen. So now we are stuck with a great mmorpg as far as skills and economy goes but below standard FPS. After a year of beta testing aiming is still bad, hit detection can be wonky at times, frame rate is terrible, horrible weapon imbalance etc. The list goes on.

CCP has done nothing but listen to the EVE crowd now it's time to listen to the FPS side and fix the actual draw of the game.

Your shot can change a galaxy if you don't have frame rate issues...

Yeah I agree the MMO part is lacking as well. Instanced battles and a player cap of 16 v 16 is not very MMO. Planetside 2 is the only true MMOFPS now that I think about it.