
Beefcake Bob
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.05.08 03:18:00 -
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Corbin Jones wrote:what i think bothered a lot of people was the fact that for the past few months ccp was promoting in game events that encouraged the playerbase to invest heavily into boosters- the equivalent to a subscription.
players spent a lot of real money investing into a game that they thought would stick around. that's what ccp, or at least the old team had told them.
at the same time ccp had told the cpm for dust of what they'd planned and made no attempt to inform the playerbase of what was to come at fanfest. even inviting the playerbase to fanfest, players that only played dust.
yeah, we all know this **** should have been released on pc and we knew it was doing bad. but those dust bunnys had hope, they stuck to the game and they were loyal to the developers.
ccp should have been more transparent. a lot of people feel betrayed and ripped off (even getting charge backs thru sony). that's great that they're going to move forward with dusts future, but the way they did it was the problem.
ps: this isn't me being butthurt or anything. i spent 10$ in three months on dust and that was mostly to use whatever little aurum i had left. the game didnt feel worth it to me, and i'd be happy to hear about the legion news under normal circumstances, but the way they did it made me lose interest.
It is alarming how many EVE players don't understand this. For the record, DUST was garbage and I haven't seriously played it since beta. I have wanted it to shut down for a while now.
However, this has NOTHING TO DO with them shutting it down. It is HOW they did it. CCP basically proved that they don't care about DUST players at all. A company with complete disregard for their customers will have no issue doing the same thing to another product (such as EVE) as soon as they decide it isn't profitable enough/they want to prototype a new toy that will conflict with it. It is just disgusting business practice, and seeing so many EVE players gloat about it kind of makes me feel ashamed to be part of this community for the last 7 years. |