I can't stay mad at you.

you weren't drunk w/e enough in the video and not enough cursing.

I find it amusing that you are behaving exactly like the FPSers I describe in my news article.

http://themittani.com/news/dust-514-eve-culture-shock-and-grief-university



You are experiencing culture shock. Welcome to New Eden.

People do this for enjoyment/fun?

So AWOXing makes you look weak?

I'm a little confused, by that since its not on the AWOXer or the corp who initiated the AWOX at all who ends up looking weak. There are corps who have better regulations and prerequisites to join their ranks than those who have been AWOXed. The act of AWOXing is exploiting someone else's inability to adequately protect their assets and organization, which is actual weakness.

You might be trying to imply that if you AWOX or your group supports AWOXing, you're "weak" (as the kids say) and aren't good at the game at all, but then again as many people have pointed out this is being played out in the metagame and caring about your KDR or leaderboard status matter not in that respect. The metagame is all about playing the people, not the game, into doing what you want and acting in a way you want them to start acting like. In this case its making people point fingers and try to disgrace others. In other cases there is the metagame goal of making people thing you're bring X items to the field of battle, and ultimately when you both engage they realize they're poorly underprepared as you brough Y items. You can also say that manipulating the market is part of the metagame and is a completely different.

You're just expressing an immense ignorance to the matter and putting up in the guise of "well if you AWOX you're just bad at the game." when, in actuality, CCP has a long history of making games where having a metagame is far more important than winning a handful of battles. Look at the HBC, it got taken down due to political turmoil caused by ProGodLegend (of N3 & Nulli Secunda) insulting Sort Dragons girlfriend. That act caused Sort to go on a fit and threaten TEST, who then promptly left the HBC and took the largest alliance in that Coalition with them, making the Sort Dragon/HBC vs PGL/N3 war be over with without a single shot fired. That's the sort of game CCP makes, if you're not capable of comprehending, or willing to partake in it, you may want to play a different game since this sort of thing will continue to grow and more than just simple AWOXing will take place.

You guys do understand that "Metagame" is what sets DUST 514 apart from other FPSes, right? The idea that a single game has consequences between YOU WON or YOU LOST, and that there is more to the game than shooting mans, driving jeeps, and blowing stuff up. The concept of the "Metagame" is the only thing that really keeps Dust 514 from turning into Battlefield 2142 2, what keeps it interesting. If you don't like this idea that there is more to the game than the ability to shoot mans, maybe you should play something else, something simpler like Battlefield or Call of Duty. Then again, if you're bothered by things other people can do, maybe you're better off with playing Bejeweled.

Personally, I eagerly look forward to when this game expands it's scope of PC beyond Molden Heath, so PC can happen in places where things actually matter, ie, nullsec, and there will be much more competition and spying and other fun stuff.

You are so astoundingly short sighted and narrow minded it boggles the mind.

The entire point of DUST 514 is that there is more to it than "shoot mans in space".

I understand some things can be difficult to handle or process. I had a lot of trouble learning how to integrate by parts, but I got past that and moved on. I didn't stay on the forums being a sad sack of tears whining about how everything isn't exactly the way I want it.

So please, sit down for a moment. Put down the controller, put down the mountain dew. Think about a game that is bigger, not just bigger, but wider, much wider, than just shooting mans. Because that is what is DUST 514 is to be.

If you can't handle that concept, you're welcome to go back and play Call of Duty or Battlefield to your hearts content.

You won't be missed.

There are plenty of other dumb pubbies with dumb opinions that can be milked for hilarity.

Maybe Eve culture is crap, did you ever think about that? The idea that emotionally manipulating people is fun and good entertainment is disgusting. There are tons of games with deep metagames that don't involve this type of behavior.

The most disturbing aspect of this game though involves the playerbase's attitude towards spying. Any person who's spent an exorbitant amount of time gaining people's trust and befriending them so they can betray them in an online game (for digital gains) needs to examine themselves. Anyone who condones this behavior should do the same. Quite frankly, these people should get a life; not to mention, such anti-social behavior borders on sociopathy.

Maybe you eve players who condone this behavior are unaware of this, but it's this type of behavior and and attitude that have branded eve players as being the scum of the gaming world. It's because of this that other gamers look down on you (well, that and the fact that you spend so much time playing a ridiculously boring game).