F2P gives you that option. I have money and feel that if I pay for my entertainment then hopefully it'll be used to improve that entertainment. Otherwise, the company has no reason to continue providing the service. What's cool is that those that don't have the money to spend can still participate and provide content as well. At $20 per month it's costing me about $0.50 per hour or less. Damn cheap entertainment.

You seem to think the game is going to fail but you're still here participating and theoretically playing the game and receiving enjoyment. If you have money maybe its time to chip in a few bucks so it doesn't fail? If anything you can help put food on the table of the lowly artists and coders.

F2P gives you that option. I have money and feel that if I pay for my entertainment then hopefully it'll be used to improve that entertainment. Otherwise, the company has no reason to continue providing the service. What's cool is that those that don't have the money to spend can still participate and provide content as well. At $20 per month it's costing me about $0.50 per hour or less. Damn cheap entertainment.

You seem to think the game is going to fail but you're still here participating and theoretically playing the game and receiving enjoyment. If you have money maybe its time to chip in a few bucks so it doesn't fail? If anything you can help put food on the table of the lowly artists and coders.

Companies generally don't invest years, and millions of dollars, developing a product, only to let it fail after just a couple months. Not without a fight, at least.

That's just bad business.

Unless something really drastic happens, like CCP declaring bancrupcy, I'm sure this game will be around for quite a while.

Most of the serious money's already been spent in the initial development, and I'm sure the cost to maintain it and keep the servers up and running is minimal, by comparison.

As long as there are enough players to fill the lobbies, and at least some real $ trickling in, I am confident that DUST will survive.

CCP needs to try and get as much return on their investment as possible, after all.

Me too.

The way they seem to first make very (un)popular items on sale, like the various direct hit nades, and then suddenly changing them into 1/10 of its preceived value is just bad karma. (They reduced the number from 2 or 3 down to 1, they upped the fitting cost from 9/2 and 18/3 up to 48/6 - making them totally useless the way I used them as a cheaper to fit nade for a scout or equipment heavy Logi fitting. )

The other thing is the totally BS useless packages they sell. Yes the elite Pack gave me a nice red BPO LAV, some AUR and some Boosters, but all the other BPOs are next to useless IMO. Why make a BPO AR with the name Dren AR when its the exact same gun as an Exile AR? Given the price and the names of the packages, (Starter, Veteran and Elite, or something in that direction, I can't remember) - If they atleast had given the stats for the stuff.

I honestly believed that the Dren AR would be better than the Exile, it was in a bigger pack with a bigger price tag named "elite", what "elite" would ever use a basic gun? Its perhaps not a direct lie, I can probably not "catch" them on any legal matter, but they have lost my faith, I now only see them as a bunch of greedy amataurs that in most cases have no idea what they're doing. I will not support this game anymore. Not without the respects and a buy back option for AUR stuff when CCP nerf stuff into uselessness.

Simply put, CCP lacks any sence of normal common decency and they violate the practice of thousandds of years of trade.

Dealing with proffesional clients instead of gamers in this manner would have put them out of business a long time ago.

No more AUR for me untill they go back on some of their polecies.

Companies generally don't invest years, and millions of dollars, developing a product, only to let it fail after just a couple months. Not without a fight, at least.

That's just bad business.

Unless something really drastic happens, like CCP declaring bancrupcy, I'm sure this game will be around for quite a while.

Most of the serious money's already been spent in the initial development, and I'm sure the cost to maintain it and keep the servers up and running is minimal, by comparison.

As long as there are enough players to fill the lobbies, and at least some real $ trickling in, I am confident that DUST will survive.

CCP needs to try and get as much return on their investment as possible, after all.

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.

I understand that a company wouldn't let a game like this fail with so much money invested into it, but right now it's looking like CCP fked up somewhere. And people are getting sick and tired of playing the same thing over and over again, on the same maps. I don't really see a point to get on besides for PC battles and the skill cap reset.

CCP, like any corporation, keeps their internal affairs protected but from the rumors floating around it sounds like they weren't happy with at least some of the things that happened when developing DUST. It sounds like there has been a reorganization of sorts. Crap happens and software is hard. Sometimes people are put in the wrong positions. Whatever has happened I get the feeling that things are back on track. CCP also likes to dream big and isn't afraid to deal with failure. I respect them for that despite being disappointed sometimes.

I play less because it's the same old content over and over again. I'd like to see the full racial options for equipment and customization. I'd like to see PvE. I'd really like to see long running battles to use the full terrain maps instead of just short matches. Even though I play less DUST it still gets the majority of my attention but, as always, there are games on the horizon that may change that.

I will not buy aurum until vehicle's can be locked and large unmanned auto aiming turret installations nerfed.

I'm a sucker for customization. That would make me spend some of that Aurum. I'd also have to buy another elite pack immediately if an Angel/Minmatar themed one were to hit the market with a Domination Minmatar LAV in it and Domination Logistics, Domination Scout, Domination Combat Rifle...

Yeah, make that happen. Please.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1103035#post1103035

Vehicle locking is described as a "want". That needs to be upgraded to a "must have ASAP". I've dabbled in vehicles and have been so turned off by theft by blueberries already that I went back to training up my scout fit.

Bored and curious if others feel(s) the way I do.

I've stopped buying aurum mainly because I feel that it does not provide the value that I want in this game. Even when I was running Omega passive and active boosters, I still felt like I was being held back from progressing at the rate I felt was acceptable. It felt like grinding then and now that my omegas are gone, the grinding is even more of a chore. To put it shortly, I suppose the never ending grind is demoralizing and i'm simply burned out.

I don't think buying boosters is worth it anymore. I've played this game for free for over a year and only in the past 3 months have I bought aurum (90$). To me, it feels like this:

>play for free and grind for eternity (3-6 months depending how special you want to get) to specialize into a single role.
>Buy aurum every month and grind for 2-4 months in order to specialize into a single role.

This is not a significant reward for buying aurum.

DISCLAIMER: DIGRESSION AHEAD

I'm pretty drunk right now and for some reason this is a really complicated issue for me (one issue keep leading to another, and another, and another, and another, and another......) to process in my head right now. For example, now I want to talk about the bad skill design. ( I believe there should be no such thing as "Core Skills" or as referred to ingame as dropsuit upgrades) Every dropsuit's CPU, PG, ARMOR, SHIELD, SCANNING, and all other skills listed under that category needs to be balanced from the start. The skill upgrades shouldn't exist in the first place. Give everyone the same starting HP, and make them decide how they want to modify their HP with their modules, not how long they've had an account.

I've digressed a bit. Sorry. But I don't want to delete it so I will Italicize my digression and label it as a disclaimer.

Basically what i'm trying to say is, from my point of view, I wish that CCP will treat purchasers of AURUM better in the future. I am no longer willing to pay money in order to barely put a dent in the amount of grinding I have to do to unlock skills.

INB4 fanboys telling me to play for fun (we can't even reach 5000 online. THIS GAME ISN'T FUN)

INB4 pay to win (LOL this entire game is built on pay-to-win. Just because i'm using $$$ and not ISK will not keep me from destroying you or vice versa. Also players grow wider not taller.)

yea it's pretty stupid to have in a game based on having to buy everything and then provide us with absolutely no form a friendly fire
whatsoever unless we join the travesty of what PC currently is, but that points moot since i doubt a blueberry is going to steal his team's vehicle in PC.

if they would just make it so the blueberries actually had to hack the vehicle before stealing it would go a very long way in helping the problem some