J-Lewis
Edimmu Warfighters
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.25 09:11:00 -
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SoTa is right; the vast majority of corps involved in PC leave their timers to their A and B teams; not random corpies. What are the rest going to do? FW is an option but it's not more rewarding than Pub matches, and Pub matches are always more available (no 5 minute wait like FW).
There's little point in having more than a few hundred corp members, because you're not going to need 80% of them; just the cream of the crop.
Also, I have to vehemently disagree on the assessment that DUST has any relation to war in any sense of the word:
16v16 in a fenced off area is not war; it's paintball. DUST is literally paintball.
Why is it not war?
War is not fun. War is unfair. War is not constant, it has a heartbeat. War makes your heart crawl out your throat and smother you as you watch what you cared for die. War is not strictly about killing, it is about goals - killing is an undesired side effect.
War is human.
EVE is as close to war as you get in a game; it has the characteristics of war: EVE can make your online experience utterly miserable. EVE lets you stack 500 ships against 50 - it is unfair. EVE warfare is not constant, it comes and goes - it is broken up and largely composed of preparation and elimination of uncertainty. EVE has moments when you can't hear your FC over the deafening sound of your own heart because you're risking something you put hundreds of hours into accomplishing. EVE warfare is usually not about killing; in fact, taking a system without a fight is both possible and desirable from a command perspective.
EVE is war. DUST is paintball. EVE is human and interesting. DUST is artificial and bland.
Why is it bland?
It's bland because just like paintball, there are poor schmucks left over that no one wants to pick; and in the end, whatever the result of a paintball match, everyone walks away and nothing has changed in the world. The only ones that are going to be interested in the outcome of a paintball match are those participating, or the audience if it's a championship.
DUST should be more like EVE, so that the other 80% of corps can participate in the greater narrative. Not once have I been compelled to read about what the outcome of PC battles has been. Not once.
Am I reading about CFC vs TEST? You bet I am. That's a war I want to know the outcomes of, because it's going to affect the entire game, regardless of outcome!
Does a PC match between Goonfeet and Subdreddit matter to the rest of the game? Absolutely not.
The point I'm trying to get at is that no: DUST is not war. It should be but it's not. It's in the way the game is built and changing that would take another 5 years. Matchmaking works for paintball, and we are playing paintball, therefore matchmaking belongs in the current state of DUST. As such, your argument against matchmaking in the current state of DUST is invalid.
That is all. |