When i 1st played this game during the E3 build in closed beta i had no idea what it was... at 1st i thouhgt it would be playstation's version of halo. After further playing the game i got more into it and saw the oportunity to mak a change to how i play games, when i saw that i could spec into vehicles i was excited because i thought i finally found something different from the same old boring FPS games like CoD and BF etc etc and decided to go into tanking because i wanted to be the biggest weapon on the battlefield and i wanted a change from boring assault riffles and i was for quite some time... i had a good time during closed beta regardless of the AV/Vehicle balance issue.

When i got into the forums, i didnt have a warm welcome (i guess nobody has a warm welcome in game forums) and i wasnt sure about what i was doing there.. but after getting myself involved in the varius discussions i found myself with a common group.

As time progressed i skilled more into tanks and became the tanker i am now over the entire duration of playing Dust 514. the biggest issue i have ever had was with the infantry of this game, it seems as though all the infantry of this game wants this to be a CoD clone or BF clone where vehicles are basically useless and have no reason to be in the game to begin with.... i have tried my best to stand between them and total CoDization of Dust 514 and iv had people stand with me in the matter as well as against me.

Throughout my time playing this game i had high hopes for it thinking to myself "when this game gets out its going to change the history of gaming istelf and define the future of all MMO FPS games to come" and "im glad that im apart of this game's history, now i have something i can say "yeah i was there when this was 1st starting out and i was there during all the old times when things were getting good and epic strugles were making history"".

But i have come to reality that this game's future is bleak and very uncertain if it will survive to the end of this year, all the balancing that CCP has been trying to do is continuously breaking this game more and more, i believe that Chromosome was when the vehicle/av balance was near perfection but CCP has thrown that all away for the infantry players that constantly cry "nerf" when they cant one shot something and they get killed by something thats meant to kill them... if you dont believe me then look through this game's history and the forums, youl find countless examples if this..

Throughout the forums and history of this game, CCP has always donw what the infantry had wanted them to do, CCP has never once listened to the people who have actually skilled into and used the items and equipment that CCP is nerfing, instead they always listen the infantry whinners that have never even tried to use the stuff themselves, nerfing everything into the ground and thus the result is the state of the game we are in now..

The funny thing is that you infantry call tankers QQers when we get nerfed and want compensation for something that weve lost and tell us to adapt or die, yet when you get nerfed (your logi suit is going to become what a logi suit should be, a logi suit, the difference between logi and assault is that assault is meant for attacking and logi is basically support) you believe that your entitled to a respec because you speced into the FOTM OP suit and now your getting nerfed for once.. well now its time for me to say: HTFU its time that you adapt to something for once..

I dont see any hop for the vehicles with the way CCP is hadling them....

I know this goodbye is going to be flamed by CoD fanboys telling me to htfu and adapt to their wishes and bend over to them like CCP has, but whatever.. it doesnt matter anymore. Infantry doesn't know anything about driving tanks yet CCP only listens to them when we are the topic. I don't even understand why they even play this game, if they don't like vehicles then they could just go to another game that doesn't have them, not try to make the vehicles here completely useless.

Il be watching this games progression and looking for any glimer of hope i can find that tells me that its time to come back.

To my fellow tankers that are remaining (few that i know and dont know), it was fun going against you, destroying your tanks and being destroyed you, the only real thrill iv ever had in this game has been fighting alond side you and against you.. im glad that im part of the best tankers that have been here and gone and im proud to call myself a Tanker to begin with.. thank you for the good times and the funny frustration.

Perhaps il be back one day... until then i say for certain Goodbye and Good luck to the classes that are fighting against the infantry classes over nerfs and buffs, the HAVs are at an end, (we stood against the infantry as long and hard as we could (id say about 2 more nerfs and even new tankers and new guys will never want to skill into tanking)), youl need it.