Originally by: Logahmmed Chance

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Edited by: Logahmmed Chance on 12/07/2011 05:44:19
I'm done. I tried. I really did.

I don't mind getting obliterated. I really don't. I'll fleet up, try to do my part, get taken out. No biggie. I know I'm young in the game, I expect the big boys to decimate me.

I don't mind waiting. For big ship battles, a lot of fitting and prep is required before you make that jump. You've got to train your character to get a decent ship for PvP. I get that. I'm okay with it - to a point.

But the culture of the game has such an overwhelming disdain for new players that I just can't stick around. In Rookie Help, I've watched people just asking basic questions get ignored for conversations that have no business in Rookie Help. Then when they get frustrated, they're ridiculed for daring suggest that the channel be used for - you guessed it - newbie questions.

I try joining a new-pilot friendly corps. I ask how often they PvP. They say "every weekend." I'm around for a weekend, ask about going out and getting some fighting done, and they say, "no, you need to train more." I ask what to train, so that I can at least pick a specification and be helpful enough to be brought along. They say "everything."

Finally, I give up and try faction warfare. Every fleet I jump into - they let me in, and I'm kicked out ten minutes later. No explanation. The last straw was when I was allowed into a fleet, asked what we were doing, they said, "just grouping up and going to PvP" - who then proceeded to pod me after thirty minutes of travel to them. Was the whole thing suspicious? Absolutely. But at this point, tonight, I was desperate to just actually play. And I did, by getting betrayed by the fleet that allowed me to join, who then played dumb and accused me of being a "spy."

This game, for me, has been little more than a series of barriers preventing me from playing the game. If I was able to get into a PvP battle once, just once, even if I got absolutely obliterated early in the running, maybe I could stick it out, but I just can't. There's zero respect for new players who don't want to mine all the time, and any time these issues are brought up, it's responded to with "you need to train more, then it gets fun."

The answer is, apparently, to just pay $20 for a few months and do nothing while you want the game count.

Call it whining, call it what you want. But it's obvious newbies at this point are regarded as little more than either people to exploit or ignore. Calls for help get ignored, and the best advice I'm given is to take classes for a month. I'm all for learning, but "classes?" Seriously?

Could've sworn I bought a game. I'm not renewing my subscription, unless someone, for the love of God, shows me that it's possible a low-level newbie who can fly battlecruisers can be allowed to play. It just seems like I'm a first grader, and the sixth graders aren't letting anyone onto the kickball field. Wasn't fun then, not fun now.

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