DUST Search - Called it

Terra Thesis wrote:

A'Real Fury wrote:

It doesn't have to matter to you that player count is dropping but why would you care or critise someone who is concerned about it? Kitten wants the game to succeed and player count is an important factor in this. The people who should be most concerned with this is CCP as it is their money on the line.

because the **** posters aren't content to merely discuss it in a topic called "is dust going die?" they're spamming the forums with these threads and hijacking all the other ones so no one can talk about anything other than their personal opinion. what if me and 15 other guys posted non stop about the dust 514 best of e3 nomination, filled up the front page, and hijacked every thread with "doesn't matter guys, dust 514 got nominated for best of e3."

we're talking about this because the **** posters have won, and have forced us to talk about it. I'd rather discuss creative ways to use the active scanner or something, but i know i have to first Wade through a wall of trolls first.

I'm really trying to understand the attitude that "i love this game so I'm going to sabotage it so that the developers panic and start making it better." uh, sorry. i don't see that being helpful.


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A'Real Fury D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 162	Posted - 2013.06.14 17:24:00 - [1] - Quote Terra Thesis wrote: Kitten Empress wrote: 50k and dropping. And you don't understand. A lot of people during Chromosome thought "this game will be better, but I don't want to play it now. I should probably just AFK and be done with it". People have lost hope and now they won't even do that. Also, you're clinging onto this one little detail. Even if this argument is flawed, the rest is still true. Also, you're enjoying a game when there are literally dozens of better games that do everything Dust does, only better, minus the EVE integration that you barely notice. Just look at the forums, look at the player retention rate, look at the graphs, the game is slowly losing players and dieing, its not gaining players. yeah it's dropping. it might pop back up next patch, who knows? why does this matter to me? why does it to matter to you? is the popularity of your game something you get graded on on your report card? millions of people play WoW and CoD, so why are you and i here in this little corner of the universe? and no, there aren't really many other games. at least not for me. planetside is the only thing close, i have no motivation to play it. i own bf3 and it doesn't even register on my radar. It doesn't have to matter to you that player count is dropping but why would you care or critise someone who is concerned about it? Kitten wants the game to succeed and player count is an important factor in this. The people who should be most concerned with this is CCP as it is their money on the line.
A'Real Fury D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 166	Posted - 2013.06.14 21:30:00 - [2] - Quote Terra Thesis wrote: A'Real Fury wrote: It doesn't have to matter to you that player count is dropping but why would you care or critise someone who is concerned about it? Kitten wants the game to succeed and player count is an important factor in this. The people who should be most concerned with this is CCP as it is their money on the line. because the ** posters aren't content to merely discuss it in a topic called "is dust going die?" they're spamming the forums with these threads and hijacking all the other ones so no one can talk about anything other than their personal opinion. what if me and 15 other guys posted non stop about the dust 514 best of e3 nomination, filled up the front page, and hijacked every thread with "doesn't matter guys, dust 514 got nominated for best of e3." we're talking about this because the posters have won, and have forced us to talk about it. I'd rather discuss creative ways to use the active scanner or something, but i know i have to first Wade through a wall of trolls first. I'm really trying to understand the attitude that "i love this game so I'm going to sabotage it so that the developers panic and start making it better." uh, sorry. i don't see that being helpful. I agree the sheer number of these threads is a bit much and creating threads just so you can say Dust is or Dust is that helps no one on the forum. I would have been happy with a few threadnoughts instead where people provided constructive critisms on what they thought of dust, its' problems and future or at least what they felt was going wrong. However, forums are made up of a pretty diverse group of people and you are going to get lots of people who will just post something like Dust is and nothing else. But responding in a similar off-hand fashion does not help your position anymore than my first reaction when I see certain posts. I understand why you are frustrated but really was there any point responding to this thread and basically saying "I don't care so why should you?". I do agree that just s* posting as others have done is bad for the game and shouldn't be accepted. Nor should we be high jacking completly unrelated threads for this discussion and I have been fairly annoyed at seeing this happen. But there have been several threads which do contain constructive feedback both positive and negative. I doubt these threads and our comments will panic the Devs but the more useful ones may give them something to focus on. What may panic them is people just stop playing in large numbers and don't bother providing any reason to why they left. Feedback constructive or not is useful as a guide if you see a corresponding reaction within the game e.g. AFKing, not using particular weapons, or not logging in.
A'Real Fury D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 168	Posted - 2013.06.14 22:24:00 - [3] - Quote For me reality is consensual perception. So while negative outcomes are possible I always hope for the best but it does not mean we should ignore the reality we all make together. However if you perceive reality solely through your own mind then it is not possible for another to ruin this game for you. If you believe in consensual reality then simply convince the majority of your point of view and the perception of this game will change. However entropy or negativity if you prefer is not a bad thing just a simple function of nature and should be celebrated. Change good or bad contributes to growth and a deaper understanding of our personal and social realities.
A'Real Fury D.A.R.K L.E.G.I.O.N D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 169	Posted - 2013.06.15 09:35:00 - [4] - Quote Terra Thesis wrote: I'm not against giving feedback, especially if it's not accompanied by excessive ranting, trolling, and attention-seeking. In fact, I clicked "like" on one of OP's other posts which I thought much more well written. I believe it was titled something like "the cat is not pleased"... However, I still think the most important piece of feedback is whether or not you continue to play. This registers on CCP's metrics more directly than any other means of communication. If you stick around but trash up the forums, you're not really accomplishing anything except getting in the way of other players that do enjoy the game. I do in fact agree with your statement but in essence all I was saying is that you are going to find people, especially on forums, who will be less constructive in their criticisms and while that is annoying for us it may still be useful for CCP in a very basic way when they do link it to the player statistics for the game. At the end of the day we can not stop or filter some of the people who post rubbish on the forum so it might be better to ignore the threads that annoy you rather than responding in kind even if we are equally pissed. If your post helped you then no harm no foul as I doubt it had much of an impact on the OP. I just felt the response was a little OTT otherwise I probably wouldn't have responded either.