Which city is that? So I would know which city I should avoid, you know...

this got dark quicker than usual

I got a wardec last night

My mind goes there when that happens a lot quicker

Oh, gods.... that's the old "F2P" model. Penny Arcade roasted that practice with a rather scathing comic about the differences between paid subscriber and free player.... not many people do it anymore, after that.

Confirming PLEX is not a microtransaction that permeates almost every aspect of this game and finds new uses almost every expansion.

The issue isn't that DUST is F2P, the issue is that CCP's 'laser focus' on DUST and the PS3, (and, it was assumed, eventually the PS4) ended up with console players having their game taken from them. A big part of the issue is also that players went to Iceland to find out about DUST and got exactly zero information about the future of DUST.

The issue isn't with age, either. I doubt Ralph has any kind of numbers to back up his claim, but my experience playing DUST has been with guys in their early 30s. The youngest was 22.

And you think these forums at their worst aren't comparable to DUST right now? Incarna something something WiS blahblah $1,000 pants or something like that. It's great that our tight knit lovable community gives the console guys on DUST the finger so quickly. That'll teach those monkeys to play games on anything less than a PC!

If Ramona had been a character in the Harry Potter books, instead of someone's EVE toon, she'd have probably been one of the first non-villains to bust out the dark arts.

Garamonde would have been the drunken ex-quidditch star shouting at first-years in Diagon Alley.

Aww thats so sweet of you to say

http://bit.ly/RkRQBT

So long as it isn't as brutally pay to win as DUST is, I don't particularly mind.

What did you have in mind as a subscription price, by the way? Because no first person shooter in existence is worth $15 a month.

If you're planning on going to EVE Vegas, you might want to reconsider, then.

I ususally leave games when they turn F2P.

I hate the cash shops constantly in my face.

Who in the actual hell pays 40-50 a month for a gaming-quality internet connection, and only uses it for console games and Netflix?

Who in the actual hell pays 40-50 a month for a gaming-quality internet connection, and only uses it for console games and Netflix?

Australians?

Who in the actual hell pays 40-50 a month for a gaming-quality internet connection, and only uses it for console games and Netflix?

As an Australian this is sadly true and its actually way more than the ammount quoted.

Is it safe to say that the drama and ragebile-spewing on the DUST forums is proof-positive of why you don't make F2P games?

Gods, and I thought us Yanks were getting boned on internet bills....

I think it's safe to say it's proof positive CCP should discourage players less than 16 years of age. Possibly they could also enforce a minimum IQ to play akin to the height requirement for many carnival rides.

You must be this smart: 110+
To play this game.

I envision a new type of IQ captcha that must be solved prior to creating an account.

/quietly files patent application.

EVE's ridiculous learning curve was supposed to be the IQ-level regulator. That obviously has been circumvented, considering some of the people we deal with on a daily basis.

EVE's ridiculous learning curve was supposed to be the IQ-level regulator. That obviously has been circumvented, considering some of the people we deal with on a daily basis.

You mean people like you? :p

There's a difference between stupid people, and insufferable bellends like me.
I'm actually quite intelligent and not at all as pedantic, in real life.
That's how I slipped my horrifying sense of humor past the learning curve. By being actually smart and taking it out on you lot.