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Posted - 2013.06.24 18:20:00 -
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Dusters Blog wrote:Many have recently predicted the demise of Dust 514. We dont agree, but there are several obvious core issues that have yet to be addressed for a game that has [shockingly] had a retail launch. The problem is that many natives are growing restless. Player numbers are dropping and the CCP strategy of 2,5 and 10 year roadmaps that works well on PC, is failing horribly with console players. More concerning is the fact that the patience of many in the hardcore playerbase seems to have reached their limit. These players are CCP supporters but now are wondering whether the game is still a place for them, as a nasty crop of questionable-at-best casual mechanics has crept into the game. With no word from CCP, they have no clue whether shameful elements like the cartoony LAV issues [aptly named Mariokart 514] are issues they intend on fixing or working as intended. Its certainly not doomsday as we havent even seen a major marketing push, but CCP needs to address these issues before they spiral out of control. A recent poll showed bugs, technical issues and poor FPS mechanics as players chief complaint. Many recent changes have also tuned weapons with the unskilled player in mind rather than the skilled one. This breaks the game and fails at the core because if the average skilled player can get 30 kills with a Flaylock, the skilled player can triple that. This is the reason noob tubes in any form is a bad idea. Right now the forums are a wasteland of negative threads and shitposting that would turn away any new player curious about the Dust 514 experience. Now is the time to communicate and resolve, as it may be too late in the coming months. read the rest here: http://tinyurl.com/krn8oga
Yes to everything you wrote!! And to Calisk unfortunately these "spam" posts are a reaction by players to the inaction of CCP. Furthermore, in the past CCP listen to the group that screamed the loudest and complained the most, so all people are doing is reacting according to CCP's actions, it's sad but CCP brought this upon themselves, and further complicated things when they wasted money on a "PR" person when the money should have gone to either the game or a real PR company.
Things are bad and if you don't thinks so then your delusional, right now the game only has 4,700 people online, in the game I'm now playing there are over 25,000 people on at this very moment and that is only one of four servers.
CCP still has a chance to fix this mess, but unless they act fast they will completely lose their hardcore/skilled base which would only leave a group of blueberrys which is nothing to be happy with. |