u waited years for a game to be playable? thats patience! i admire it but ur some kind of idiot.

ur serious?

so ur saying the game has:
eve connection
good framerate
no lag
gamemodes
a good fps core
and PC is playable?

get ur head out of your @ss. thats the blind fanboy in u talking

Cry and whine more scrubs, your tears fuel my dropsuit. Look at how long it took CCP's other game (Heaven forbid that i mention EVE online here) took to get to the point where all the core elements were in the game. They are still improving that game and people said when it started that EVE would fail. You all are the exact same as those people. So go ahead leave, whine complain you will all eat your words in time.

PS make sure you terminate your characters so we don't have to hear you whine anymore and so you can't reap the rewards of constant passive SP.

I've been voting with my wallet for a bit now, I haven't spent any cash on AUR, Merc Packs, Vehicle Packs since before Uprising (I've also scaled back my financial investment in Eve).

When I feel my concerns are being better addressed, I will change my stance.

The Faction Warfare connection is actually pretty strong right now. Winning battles on the ground can drastically lower the amount of time it takes to take a system (or drastically increase it, if you're losing said battles) and the same measurement also makes the system less/more costly to maintain. For those of you unfamiliar with FW mechanics, you can't dock in an enemy system, so not only are you costing the other side monetary (Loyalty Point awards) by denying them systems, you're also denying them places to stop/rest/repair/hide. The FW battles (while just another skirmish at this point in time) do actually have a strong bearing on FW in EVE at the moment. Of course, CCP had to test this kind of stuff first, and not just release it Galaxy-wide right from the get-go. That's why PC is only in Molden Heath at the moment. But eventually they'll have it expanded out.

In regards to PC, I haven't done a single match, but I hear it isn't doing as great as people had hoped. Do you think it would have been any better if you could go for any of the tens of thousands of districts across the galaxy (~5000 systems, and multiple districts per planet)? They had to test it first. Hopefully with the feedback they can make it much better.

The aiming is definately difficult at the fine-tuning level. It can be a real PITA trying to line up that sniper shot when you can't get the crosshair to move just a smidge instead of the big leaps it tends to make. Other than that, I don't really have much trouble in tracking or hitting people, and I've played all sorts of FPSs over the years (majors being Halo, COD:MW, CS, DoD, HL, etc). Take that for what you will.

Of course, I am firmly of the opinion that DUST shouldn't have shucked it's Beta status, but I heard a rumor that it wasn't 100% CCP's doing, so I don't know who to blame exactly for that one.

So far it seems like anyone who hasn't agreed 100% with you is a "fanboy," though, so despite my concessions and agreement that DUST 514 isn't a finished product for a 1.0 release build, I await being labled.

No Eve connection
They only time I have bad framerate is when I've been playing for a while
Same as above
There are 3 actually. I'm pretty optimistic so this doesn't really bother me
I have no problems with Aiming and No problems with Hit detection.
PC is only playable if you reset 3 times a day and pour some wolf blood on your PS3

Tiger blood works better.

aka "Fiskur rotnar fr+í haus og ni+¦ur"

Yeah.. We don-¦t say this here in Iceland..

Oh, the EVE Online players. They are a wonderful and dedicated bunch; they write extensive excel spreadsheets; write programs which link directly into a players character; create websites, with their own forums etc etc. Suffice to say the list of what the EVE Online player-base have, will and shall do for the game of EVE Online goes on longer than the list of what women are looking for in a man.

They even have mother fuckin' tattoos, and name their offspring 'Eve' and get EVE-inspired Wedding cake made for them. I **** ye not.

If a bumper sticker existed which said 'my other car is a Titan', they would buy it...

I don't think I need to link examples here.

Gaming Tattoos

Bumper Stickers

Sorry, mate, but when your "preamble" against the fans of a certain game rants against common behavior of game fans as if it was unique to your target population, it makes everything else look pretty ****** by comparison.

Now, as to your actual argument, after you were done making a fool of yourself, that could possibly be part of the case, but we'll never exactly know for sure. There was "Monaclegate" where CCP went way overboard with their first foray into microtransactions, and the price of a monocle - a mere decoration - was equal to the cost of a 4 month subscription. That was pretty ridiculous. BTW, it still costs that much, but everyone's over it now.

"Incarnagate," the "scandal" where one of the big expansions was just a room you could lock your capsuleer into (as well as an overhaul of the character deisgn system), shouldn't have been as big of an issue, becuase the expansion was f'n free. Unlike other MMORPGs, where an expansion comes out every couple of years and costs you another chunk of change, all of the EVE expansions are 100% free and there are 2 a year. Talk about a spoiled playerbase. Did they have a right to be bummed out? Of course, it was pretty lame. Should there have been rioting in the space lanes? Hell no.

Could CCP getting a bit of a big head? Possibly, but they've already had a couple of major ego checks, deserved or undeserved, and I don't think it's the case here. I think the case here is just a small dev team, some planning errors, and the instant gratification that everyone wants these days.

You can't call an expansion to a subscription model free of charge.

One needs to also ask "to what end?".

If the purpose of releasing an expansion pack after releasing 10 years of expansion packs is to add content, why?

Why add more content to a game when the existing content surely is more important? Can anyone walk in stations yet? Are drones still broken? Is capital warfare beyond saturation yet? Content in game that new players cannot access because they were not playing the game in 2003-2012?

Barely scratching the surface of content which was added (some by staff that have since left CCP) with no projections or forethought to their impact, affecting balance.

The only reason they add new content is because either the existing content is "poorly received" or they are fearful of people unsubbing if no new content is added.

Existing players want a balanced game that works at the most fundamental level, and when the fundamentals are flawed, yes, they can be temporarily pacified with a new patch or expansion/shinyness. Pacification is no substitute for enrichment, and the hunger is so high in players now of EVE they look like catwalk models: super thin and devoid of substance, wearing clothes of desirability that are useless and impractical for day-to-day attire.

Potential gamers of EVE are drawn to games with scifi roots, or just want to fly spaceships.

Potential gamers of DUST want to shoot people with cool weapons.

CCP cannot get either right, and expenditure of time and money has been mismanaged.

My unsub from EVE, and my refusal to play DUST any longer hinge on many aspects...

...mostly it is a vote of no confidence in the management structure and all those internally who support without speaking up or questioning what the core values of gaming are about.

If CCP genuinely cared 'bout the players, I would not have left, and would not post the "screw this" posts that I do.

/goes to wipe