So many rude people. Not even clever or stylish rude, just a bunch of rude a$$holes.
How many posters who want to completely trash talk representatives think that does ANYTHING meaningful.
If anything I'm sure the people reading the thread on CCP's end are like, " !*#% these people, no more posts for you bunch of wankers."

i would be offended and not want to have anything to do with those people, personally. We should be grateful that we get anything besides patch notes, let alone friendly responses.

I, too, think CCP and their dust project has a lot of promise. I've played a lot, contributed money, etc.

But let's not split hairs, nor sugar coat a few obvious issues that have arisen since the uprising release. It's become kind of glaring that the devs of dust have some very bizarre priorities, and they lack attention to detail. It seems like problems that would arise from a group of developers all doing their own thing and combining their work in a big mash up resulting in an unharmonious product.

I guess they will eventually arrive at their destination as to where they want this product to be. I have no doubt about that, really. They have a lot of time, and can ultimately do really good damage control once they have a good product. But there have been so many missteps recently, and let's be blunt. Uprising added a little bit of cosmetic changes and very small content updates. However, it added nothing to the foundation, which is as of yet, still quite broken.


They don't need yes man cheer leading right now. They need blunt honest assessments that are productive, intelligent, and nudging. We can pat their backs AFTER they accomplish something, not before. We are all adults here. You aren't guaranteed success. I think they've had enough wake up calls to hopefully realize they are apparently struggling, and need to make some proactive changes that will get them back on their feet.

I mean, does anyone think they are in control right now? It seems like a firefighting fest, and we are all trapped in their burning building. We need a refreshing water hose of bug fixes and content all over us with force. 8 months from now is not going to cut it.

"You should be grateful we do anything for you customer Plebs"

Where are your shoes?

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CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip
Dust 514 Community Rep

im sorry, WTF does this^^ have to do with anything in this thread? i have my shoes in my closet but wearing them only slightly improves the game, and i aint finding patch notes in there

Pretty much! We are working very hard to get you the fixes out. If we could fix it instantaneously we would! Letting you know that we are working on those things, and to look forward to hearing more about the changes and fixes in the upcoming days. :D

As for lip-service, hmm. I'm typing this :P

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CCP Mintchip // Twitter - @CCP_Mintchip
Dust 514 Community Rep

just saw battlefield 4 on the live stream

they destroyed a pillar to collapsed a road to kill a tank

they have elevators

they collapsed the building that had the elevator

Pretty sure that's all I do... and my job is to actually design stuff. O_O

Its all good, broman. Most lurkers like myself understand these things take time. Just let me keep my afk abilities so i can close the sp gap and we'll call it squarsies

look forward to hearing more about the changes and fixes in the upcoming days. :D

TBH, AFK going away NEEDS to be one of the first bugfixes that is released. I'm not saying that it is the most important thing to do, though IMHO, it is a package deal.

If CCP is really real on fixing the foundations, they NEED to make AFK go away. I really get the impression that the "AFK==A-OK" is just CCP's concession because they know the game is broken. If they're planning on making real strides toward the game being not broken, they NEED to FORCE the players to actually PLAY THE GAME if they want the Active SP.

Otherwise, they are just saying "broken game is broken, feel free to not play our broken POS game"

Also, I voted for Kang.

Make the game experience enjoyable and people won't feel the need to AFK. It feels like they want to make SP 100% passive but they don't want to implement it yet because they still need server turn out to justify to investors that everything is fine.

Pretty sure that's all I do... and my job is to actually design stuff. O_O

I stand by my opinion. If people are really in this for "the long haul" they'll accept the AFK=/=A-OK part of the initial bugfixes. Anyone that won't, wouldn't stick around after the next annual BF/CoD reskin anyway. Give us some credit, give us real fixes and we'll play the game. Just make AFK go away or give us the tools to make it go away ourselves.

Anything less is just acknowledging that people don't want to play Dust. Not only that, it is also aggravating/driving away people who would be willing to deal if they weren't getting faceraped cause they were outnumbered 2:1.

CCP, Mintchip, and other customer service devotees;

Thank you very much for your dedication and commitment to your customers. Thanks for your efforts to make this product the ground breaking, genre moving success that it has the potential to be.

Thank you for your patience in replying to the endless avalanche of hyperbole and grief that many posters fling in your general direction.

Despite appearances, not every player believes that Uprising, Dust514, or CCP are responsible for all the evil in the world let alone everything that is wrong with online gaming today.

You are doing a great job balancing a myriad of demands against a finite set of resources. I appreciate your efforts.



Whining, complaining Internet game forum diaspora;

Chill out already.

This. +1. If I were at CCP maybe I would have run out of patience already.

@Cosgar

If you used to think like me, then find your integrity again and play for the other aspects you'll be pursuing. If not that, save yourself on electric bills and turn off your PS3 when you AFK. Once things are fixed for real, we'll be getting enough numbers that you won't need to worry about not being one of the "max SP 1337"

Who said anything about wanting max SP? If they don't fix my weapon, I'm not going to fight. Take an AR, ADS while you're shooting a red dot and imagine that even though you're shooting directly at your target, your shots wind up pulling to the left or if they would hit their mark, they go directly through your target. Now imagine that the devs tell you they have a fix but you have to wait until the next major update and you're SOL until then. Welcome to my world. I would just stop playing altogether but I still need to farm SP for an AR since its the only serviceable weapon in the goddamned game.

Who said anything about wanting max SP? If they don't fix my weapon, I'm not going to fight. Take an AR, ADS while you're shooting a red dot and imagine that even though you're shooting directly at your target, your shots wind up pulling to the left or if they would hit their mark, they go directly through your target. Now imagine that the devs tell you they have a fix but you have to wait until the next major update and you're SOL until then. Welcome to my world. I would just stop playing altogether but I still need to farm SP for an AR since its the only serviceable weapon in the goddamned game.

People aren't being dicks. However, sensitive people needlessly have their **** alarms going off... wait.. that didn't come out right. shoot, oops. too much innuendo and it won't stop.

ahem...

This game has major issues. We can talk about it. relax. no one is going to take your game away from you.

And Sony isn't the problem. That's just inventing excuses.

I feel your pain about this issue but please try to understand that there's more to it than CCP beeing d!cks about it.