Spkr4theDead
Namtar Elite
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.05 05:37:00 -
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Texas Killionaire wrote:First off, I think that Dust is a lot of fun the way it is now. I've been reading a lot of posts from people who thoroughly dislike this game and compare it to other FPS. What's wrong with that is that Dust is being compared to completed games. Besides some stupid gun camo or extra map dlc, other FPS's are basically finished. If Dust is going to be anything like EVE online, the game will never be completed. How could a FPS/RPG player want anything more? Hating and giving up on this game now is like giving up on your favorite team based on preseason performance or puting a book down after the first paragraph. Id love to read others thoughts on this.
Sounds like you're still referring to the free DLC CCP does for EVE every so often. The problem at a lot of people had and still have, is that they don't have a dedicated community manager for Dust, browsing all day every day (I'd be happy to do that for some cash - if I have their ears directly). They're still working on a ton of balance issues, post-release. There are still a ton of bugs, post-release. They changed what some skills did when they deployed Uprising without changing the descriptions, or putting that information in the patch notes. As such, a lot of people complained, and rightly so. Even those that have been on EVE since the beginning couldn't honestly tell us to HTFU and keep moving. The vehicle powergrid skill used to give us +5% to max PG per level; now, it unlocks access to the PG upgrade modules, and reduces the CPU of them by a percentage each level. They didn't put that in the patch notes, nor did they have the correct description when vehicle pilots logged on and started using their SP.
What games would you consider complete? You can't consider a game where you get DLC with a preorder to be complete. That simply means they were too lazy or too squeezed on time to put it in the game, so they bundle it with a preorder, and make everybody else pay for it that didn't preorder it. That's not complete. Having to work on bugs that pop up over time does not make a game incomplete. Core mechanics and physics issues, including major bugs such as being stuck on a loading screen every other battle, makes a game incomplete. LAV physics make it seem as if we're fighting on dwarf planets or moons, rather than what we'd consider today a full-sized planet.
That is what makes Dust incomplete. Not knowing that they'll be fixing little things over time, and giving us free DLC. That's just ongoing, planned and expected occurrences. |