Maybe the challenge is just a social experiment to see what would happen in matches; it's a fairly good experiment setup, with plenty of observational data to record thanks to the diverse nature of the goals and the high number of objectives that need to be completed for each one.

Maybe they're attempting to stress the mechanics of the game, the servers, the maps and so on in order to discover exploits, emergent game play models, etc.

Uhm then it would still be in beta, this is supposed to be a finished product.

Maybe the challenge is just a social experiment to see what would happen in matches; it's a fairly good experiment setup, with plenty of observational data to record thanks to the diverse nature of the goals and the high number of objectives that need to be completed for each one.

Maybe they're attempting to stress the mechanics of the game, the servers, the maps and so on in order to discover exploits, emergent game play models, etc.

Also, OP, why do you have such a bad attitude? I don't get it. I can understand that some of the community may bother you but the community that is found on the forums is only a small sample of the community as a whole. If what you find on the forums bothers you so much that you have to aggressively lash out, why would you continue reading it? It's a game enjoyed by many people for many different reasons. Our subjective definition of what Dust is to us is just that; subjective.

Chill, bro. We're all gamers here. Even the trolls.

So they are still Beta testing then, right?
LOL

F2P = CCP not having to hire a QA team.

So they are still Beta testing then, right?
LOL

F2P = CCP not having to hire a QA team.

Your are too harsh at assessing CCP's fails. If somebody starts to do new things and "sucks" in the beginning it just means she will improve with time. Not that she should stop doing this "new thing".

DUST game model is somewhat different from the previous old ones. Old ones would sit in developing limbo until somebody decides it is polished enough to show to the people and rip them off they money in the obscene manner. This game of DUST is almost "crowd sourced" and made on the go, getting better and better on monthly basis while people are already using it. There is more pressure on developers in this new way than in the old way. Whines and curses are inevitable

But it is not mandatory to buy AUR... You can actually play for free... At the price

Very much.... we helping CCP to develop the game for free, a new F2P model perhaps ? FTD ( Free To Develop )... opss.. me bad..I can see the Banning Hammer pointing in my direction... Better run...

Vrain Matari's post.

+1 for keeping it all in perspective.

It's easy for us burnt out beta testers to look on this adventure with jaded eyes.

The development environment for DUST includes CREST, globally distributed battleservers feeding a single shard which is simultaneously running EVE Online, and all this through PSN. And on a platform new to CCP.

Free high quality voicechat in customizable user created channels - easy to forget those theadnaughts, eh?

Procedurally generated maps based on planetary characteristics, stars and ship brackets in their correct positions in the skybox.

Integrating DUST merc's motivations into EVE is really like making a socio-economic-political RPG FPS lobby shooter - which CCP wants to turn into and open world military/economic simulation.

There are a lot of technologies that CCP are pioneering in DUST and they all talk to each other and CREST.

I'm sure there are big development houses out there who are looking at what CCP is attempting as just flat-out crazy, and not a few of them who would be afraid to take on the challenge that CCP has.

Yet they still can not for the life of them figure out core FPS game mechanics like balance, hit detection, aiming, and matchmaking.
But hey who cares right, its not like this is a FPS or anything.

(...)The most important thing to share is that as of this meeting, its readily apparent now to the CPM that CCP is doubling down on Dust 514's success, investing more resources into bringing staff on board, focusing their direction, and iterating on the processes that have brought the game this far. Dust is clearly one of the company's major long term investments GÇô and despite the rough launch this year, CCP seems adamant on figuring out what they can do to open the pipeline wider GÇô both in terms of total content output, the timing of the updates, and most importantly GÇô communication.(...)

Have found some "raw meat" to chew if you'v not already tasted it:
CPM Activity Report #3 - June 29, 2013 (by CSM0 Hans)
http://hansshotfirst.blogspot.com/2013/06/cpm-activity-report-3-june-29-2013.html?spref=tw

One quote to give you impression of it's weight:


Bon appetit

Have found some "raw meat" to chew if you'v not already tasted it:
CPM Activity Report #3 - June 29, 2013 (by CSM0 Hans)
http://hansshotfirst.blogspot.com/2013/06/cpm-activity-report-3-june-29-2013.html?spref=tw

One quote to give you impression of it's weight:
Bon appetit

Blizzard has millions upon millions of dollars at its disposal. Every patch they release you can see changes made to the classes in order to finely tune the balance as players discover new ways to use the mechanics that cause unexpected results.

Do not bring up Blizzard and WoW when talking about how balance should be done right. Blizzard doesn't even communicate with their players on the topic.

CPM = Monkeys on a string.

They are there to appease the weak minded individuals and brain wash them into thinking that this game will be great someday, SoonGäó, in the timetable, on the Horizon.

Don't give me LOL tasks like hacking so many things in a given period. Give me real content deserving of my time, like new game modes and maps.

Don't even get me started on the LOL prizes. No free market yet so who cares about the free LOL gear.

Pfff what a waist of time and this Mordu's Challenge is.

Your attitude is disgusting and contributes nothing to this community.

In fact, the majority of this community contribute nothing.

If you think that attitude is disgusting, wait until the politics and ponzi schemes come to DUST. Enjoy.

Excellent. I would really love to see the data they manage to collect from players in both Eve and Dust; the behavioral data must be very interesting to look at, Eve (and soon Dust) are the only games that I know which have such a high level of socio-economic meta-gaming.

Your attitude is disgusting and contributes nothing to this community.

In fact, the majority of this community contribute nothing.

Vehicle hacks don't count for the hacking requirement, so they're wasting their time there.

There's unfortunately not much we can do if people want to farm kill each other like that.