Avallo Kantor
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.06.23 18:26:00 -
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I have plenty of faith in this game.
My reasons for which are thus:
I've been playing EVE for a while, and I'm fairly familiar with their rather unusual style of updating and working.
They sometimes keep things secret for the "shock and awe" factor of showing off cool new features, and other times
write Dev blogs that make one feel like they are being addressed to a actually intelligent individual, going through and
explaining the back end of why they are making the changes, and give quite a bit technical details.
Also, they are just about the only company that seems to have the balls to constantly show their current logged in player count for their games. They also seem like one of the few game companies (the non-indie ones I mean) that really want to try to be innovative and make exciting new things.
Furthermore I'm a patient sort who normally has alot of work (I work 7 days a week programming) so I can't really play the game as much as I'd like to, so I've yet to had a chance to really burn myself out of the game. I can wait for changes to happen to improve the game, and I've seen from personal experience that CCP will improve things, granted on a rather slow and methodical schedule.
I like the game right now. Also, and probably a highly related reason, I haven't really run into the "rampant" bugs so many other players seem to experience. I never get disconnected from the game (except when my local connection fails on my end) and I don't often feel like my shots missed due to poor aiming mechanics as opposed to my own poor marksmanship. I have a small number of skill points, and after a -VERY- frustrating period of getting killed by better players in better gear, I've gotten to a point where I can normally do very well in a match even with all standard gear, even getting top spot on my team once or twice. (Thanks DUST uni)
My skill points are still low enough that I'm still working towards getting max general skills, and being able to fit my primary build in all protogear (I can't even use half of my modules at Advanced yet) So I still feel each SP I get is very meaningful, and because I work alot I rarely am able to hit the cap, so that feature doesn't really bug me much either.
I read the DUST war reports, and even while I'm not yet at a point where I can compete in PC, I can still read about the wars on a weekly basis, giving me a much greater sense that this game does carry some extra weight to it. Perhaps it's just my mindset, but I really love it when there's a much greater conflict going on that goes beyond individual matches. I like that certain alliances, and fledgling empires can hold their ground over a period of weeks, and other alliances are crushed beneath the weight of others. It gives a narrative to the game that goes beyond the lore or the developer crafted events.
Even if I'm not part of it (yet) I feel it's something I can aspire to. (And hopefully by the time I -can- reach it alot of the PC bugs people have been having will be stamped out.) |