You called Car merc being mad? Or that his topic would get locked?

afking was never worth it. people misunderstanding the game forced themselves to grind away to chase sp and gear. meanwhile the rest of us either played if/when we found it enjoyable, or otherwise left to play outside.

who's "people"? there's about 50k people who think it's worth logging onto.

my point is that your criteria is flawed. you're saying "if this game was even the least bit entertaining, people would at the very least enjoy mcc afking. nobody enjoys that, so the game must not be enjoyable." well, no, mcc afking is stupid and unenjoyable in its own right. if you'd just forget about mcc afking (which is an extension of the stupid SP grinding attitude) you might find parts of the game enjoyable, as tens of thousands of people do.

including me, i love this game and the never ending process of optimizing my doors and trying new gear in the field. but i realize my opinion is only relevant to me.

ccp makes games where being a noob is part of the end game. i think it's brilliant but there's just a lot of community education to do. people enslave themselves into the idea "i must grind until i max out and complete an elite template then i can go off and enjoy the end game" they try it here, and of course they burn out and wine on the forums and quit.

dust can definitely use a lot of improvement but 70-80% of the complaints are from people saying some variation of "the grind is boring! and it takes forever to grind! and grinding costs money! and I'm not getting rewarded enough for grinding!" and it doesn't occur to them to just not grind at all.

it's really self centric to claim the game is "boring". what you meant to say is that YOU don't enjoy it. and the most powerful way to communicate that is not to throw a public temper tantrum, but to just not log on. it shouldn't get you upset if to the rest us have found the game fun. just go somewhere else and enjoy yourself.

Noone gives a **** what you have to say, all I ever see you doing is bitching and whining, you're such a little 14 year old.

Go play another game then?

People aren't going to want to stick around when there's people like you shitposting all over the forums. The only thing driving me away from this game is 60% of the forum community.

You all have such an overblown sense of entitlement, it grinds my gears.

Which are the dozen or so games would you recommend to play instead of DUST?
(reasons about what they do better/worse would also be helpful)

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.

Which do you recommend people try and why?
Honest question. Pretend there are people who don't play as many FPSes as you seem to, heck I'm sure there are people who have only tried DUST.

Please list the Dozens (or at least half a Dozen), Multi-player FPS you'd recommend and why.

Okay... thanks for the rundown.

I'll probably look at PlanetSide 2 since I know its up and has a community (provided my PC supports it), and I'm pretty sure TF2 is still chugging along, are the rest of those "alive"? (their communities not wether the game is playable)