The Attorney General
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Posted - 2013.08.05 14:52:00 -
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I stopped buying Aurum for a few reasons:
1. I have enough SP (13+ million) that my core skills are full up on this role. Yes, everything is huge SP numbers away for small improvements, but I have no problem waiting at this point. I have a solid set of skills to use and a decent set of options with which to play. I am almost ready to start pooling SP in anticipation of future offerings, as what is currently available for vehicle operators is pretty limited.
2. I have learned the hard way to not buy items from CCP after what they did to the armored assault pack. I will never purchase items again with cash or aurum, because they can and will be changed at CCP's whims, making what I purchased suddenly less desirable. I have zero confidence in purchasing anything from a company that has a proven record of changing said items after the fact.
3. I have a Merc pack worth of items, including an active booster stuck on a toon that I want to biomass. Until I can trade those items off, there is little to no reason to invest more, as I consider it a barometer of how CCP has progressed. I understand that item trading is a LONG way off, but that is on CCP, not me.
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The Attorney General
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Posted - 2013.08.05 15:26:00 -
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Jaqen Morghalis wrote:
Unless something really drastic happens, like CCP declaring bancrupcy, I'm sure this game will be around for quite a while.
CCP needs to try and get as much return on their investment as possible, after all.
Just because the servers are running, that doesn't mean that the game is something new people will want to invest the necessary time in to be competitive. If we end up in a situation where there is a small cluster of High SP players in dominant positions and there is a dropping player count, the game will be pretty much done in my eyes.
I am not going to invest months getting teams ready to only have the top 200 stomp us out every time we try and get something going. PC is the core feature of the game right now, aside from FW, the only thing that differentiates it from other FPS games. Right now that end game is absolutely over, so you can either try to join the big dog alliance, or stay indie and not get involved in PC.
Having no viable end game other than lobby shooter 514 sucks. Without enough people to play, the matchmaker will struggle to produce quality matchups, and the level of pub play will continue to degrade. As it is now when I put a squad together, we pub stomp, when I go solo, the team I am on gets rolled, no matter what I do. If this is the long term outlook for Dust, no matter if the servers are still running or not the game will be effectively dead, as the core user base pulls further away from the new blood, who never stick around long enough to get to the competitive level.
Next, with that dwindling user base, there is a much smaller window of monetization, which will lead CCP to do something foolhardy, which is well within their reach, as shown by previous efforts. |