DUST Search - DUST and CCP from a newcomer perspective

Dante Kretschmer wrote:

First time posting! I've been reading the forums for some time now but never really bothered to post. I've seen dozens of trolls, constructive feedback and lots, lots of QQers and whiners. I really wanted to give an opinion about the game and CCP as a player. I've been playing DUST around a month, it's not that much. I've played almost all the Cod's since CoD4, so I have experience with console fps. And I would like to say many things about this game and about CCP.

Many of you complain and complain rightfully. DUST is by no means a perfect game. However I see many, many people complaining how CCP does nothing, how CCP misses so badly on a nerf, or doesn't listen to players (e. g. state of DS). And I have to say, you don't know how lucky you are to have CCP handling things. I'm a newcomer but I can see how diferent this company is from others. I have in mind for example the EAware fail that was SWTOR. Check their forums if you have the time. It's full of people complaining about the game and the developers just don't listen. At all. They don't post. They don't make events in PSHome and answer fan questions. Hell, they don't make Fanfest. They just care about making as much money as they can out of that sinking ship.

In fact, I've read many people and even reviews of DUST stating how this game is P2W and is constantly throwing you a "Buy Aurum" ad on your face. Again, I refer to swtor. If you don't pay at all, you get constant messages like "f2pers cant sprint till level 10" "f2pers only get 1 crew skill", "f2pers can't post in the forums", "f2pers recieve mounts 10 levels later than everybody else". THAT is annoying, whereas in DUST the only thing I see worth buying are boosters and I feel like I can play without spending a dime. And most of all, I don't feel nickeled and dimmed.

CCP is ambitious and and I can see that they are as excited as us about this game. They play the game. They know the clumsy mechanics. They care about the community. They know it needs more maps, modes, tune up PC, commander role. I'm sure they're tracking the balance issues. And I am sure that if they could they would bring everything this game needs and more to it. However from the point of a software developer it is just not possible to have everything and more in a month. Not even in two.

I couldn't believe that three days after the outage people started to complain again for whatever the reasons, when CCP did an amazing job handling the DDoS attack and also communicating with us. We should be encouraging them, not whinning. Its a f2p game and we will have updates, new maps, new modes, PC will get tuned, for free. New maps alone on any other fps would cost us 10-15$? Besides the 60$ game? Seriously. Focus on the good things this game has, if any of you are like me and just feel set free from an fps prison you didn't know you were in. And keep a constructive community, like many of you do, instead of QQing and whinning.

TL; DR: Keep the feedback, whether negative or positive, constructive. After all, CCP is on the same boat as us. And I'm glad we can say the best is yet to come

See you on the battlefield (if I don't get disconnected from the warbarge Cool


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Darth-Carbonite GIO R.I.f.t 12	Posted - 2013.06.09 19:31:00 - [1] - Quote Dante Kretschmer wrote: First time posting! I've been reading the forums for some time now but never really bothered to post. I've seen dozens of trolls, constructive feedback and lots, lots of QQers and whiners. I really wanted to give an opinion about the game and CCP as a player. I've been playing DUST around a month, it's not that much. I've played almost all the Cod's since CoD4, so I have experience with console fps. And I would like to say many things about this game and about CCP. Many of you complain and complain rightfully. DUST is by no means a perfect game. However I see many, many people complaining how CCP does nothing, how CCP misses so badly on a nerf, or doesn't listen to players (e. g. state of DS). And I have to say, you don't know how lucky you are to have CCP handling things. I'm a newcomer but I can see how diferent this company is from others. I have in mind for example the EAware fail that was SWTOR. Check their forums if you have the time. It's full of people complaining about the game and the developers just don't listen. At all. They don't post. They don't make events in PSHome and answer fan questions. Hell, they don't make Fanfest. They just care about making as much money as they can out of that sinking ship. In fact, I've read many people and even reviews of DUST stating how this game is P2W and is constantly throwing you a "Buy Aurum" ad on your face. Again, I refer to swtor. If you don't pay at all, you get constant messages like "f2pers cant sprint till level 10" "f2pers only get 1 crew skill", "f2pers can't post in the forums", "f2pers recieve mounts 10 levels later than everybody else". THAT is annoying, whereas in DUST the only thing I see worth buying are boosters and I feel like I can play without spending a dime. And most of all, I don't feel nickeled and dimmed. CCP is ambitious and and I can see that they are as excited as us about this game. They play the game. They know the clumsy mechanics. They care about the community. They know it needs more maps, modes, tune up PC, commander role. I'm sure they're tracking the balance issues. And I am sure that if they could they would bring everything this game needs and more to it. However from the point of a software developer it is just not possible to have everything and more in a month. Not even in two. I couldn't believe that three days after the outage people started to complain again for whatever the reasons, when CCP did an amazing job handling the DDoS attack and also communicating with us. We should be encouraging them, not whinning. Its a f2p game and we will have updates, new maps, new modes, PC will get tuned, for free. New maps alone on any other fps would cost us 10-15$? Besides the 60$ game? Seriously. Focus on the good things this game has, if any of you are like me and just feel set free from an fps prison you didn't know you were in. And keep a constructive community, like many of you do, instead of QQing and whinning. TL; DR: Keep the feedback, whether negative or positive, constructive. After all, CCP is on the same boat as us. And I'm glad we can say the best is yet to come See you on the battlefield (if I don't get disconnected from the warbarge)! You sir, win the prize for best post of the month. (okay, so we're only eight days into June, but you get the idea)