Be warned.
I started this reply as a direct response to the OP - but it's pretty much come out as me defending myself and the hundreds of players on here who are like me, but due to a vocal minority are quickly becoming frustrated with what we see here every day.
Ok, Rant ahead... this one has been brewing for a while now.
Outside of all of this I'm just a normal guy who gets on with his day to day life.
Inside ED however - I'm one of many facets. FYI I played Elite back on the ZX Spectum, then the Amiga - and I was the type of person to have a folder just for Frontier when it came out.
In ED - I enjoy exploring the galaxy, trading, and even making videos out of it, and have embraced social media to create a character for myself. I do sometimes use that character on here to wind people up, but a lot of the time the people I reply to do bring it upon themselves. Other times the real me does slip through and I show my frustration much like this post. But one thing I've never done is hidden who I am behind a cloak of anonymity, it's pretty easy to link my character to my real life self.
I'm invested.
Another facet is I also like to fight and I have a persona that is a bit of a anti-hero - not evil, but not the nicest either because it's the antithesis of the real me that RP allows. A lot of it involves PvP - sometimes that is consensual, and some sometimes it isn't - but all of it is perfectly legal within the constraints of the game world provided by Frontier, such as bounty hunting or pirating, or combat in one of the many warzones where you see a player on the other side - of course they need to be the first thing you destroy.
Sadly there are a few bad eggs out there - people who do what gets called "griefing", "ganking", "PKing" - they do it because that's what they find a type of gameplay available to them at the moment because it's an incomplete game. Elite: Dangerous at the moment is essentially an infrastructure that needs testing.
Hey guess what? Those bad eggs - they'll soon get bored of this game and move on. And more will come, and again they'll get bored and move on, ad nauseum.
What this has lead to is a small, but vocal minority (some who have what I call "Alpha Backer Complex", and others "Bitter Vet Syndrome") who can't separate the two. I actually think these are the people who really "don't get" this game.
These are the type of people who think Frontier only made a game for them. These are the type of people that say they will play solo as some kind of threat (and I'm sure were a big part of making sure it made it in to the final game). They automatically turn and accuse everyone of wanting to shoot another human player in the game of being "griefers", "gankers" - I've ever heard "hackers" be used because they may have been the victims of a 1-shot from a distance - not taking in to account some people might just be good at that.
They especially like to accuse anyone who has ever played games like Eve Online in the past because apparently you can't have played that and not been a - well lets see, so far I've been called a "psychopath", "sociopath" and even just downright "evil" because apparently I want to bring everything over from that game. FYI personally I was never in any of the big bad alliances, I wasn't even that regular a player (since 2009 I amassed 20m skill points, pretty much nothing) - I mostly played a Low-sec pirate who did both consensual and non-consensual PvP because that was allowed in the constraints of the game. I cancelled my subscription as soon as PB landed.
Funnily enough these people do remain rather anonymous as it's very easy for them to shout this stuff behind that cloak without realising that there is actually a person they're aiming it at.
For me especially it's because I chose to join a social group that happened to form on the same website as a Eve group with the same name. The name was not chosen because of the links to them, but because of tradition of the site. This lead to accusations of being the type of person who likes to "fake" and "back stab" people.
You are saying this about myself and my friends. It's not very nice. Quite frankly I've become sick and tired of the attacks on here - even if not directed, by association you are making assumptions about the type of people we are.
I, and many others like me, are the type of person you want in the game, and here on the forums - we're invested. We're the type of people that will spend more money on this game as long as Frontier don't shut every avenue of what we consider fun down, because a vocal minority complain (and by the way I don't think they ever will - Frontier only ever have to answer to their shareholders and if allowing players to murder each other means they can make 3 or 4 times the profit - trust me they'll add that feature in). By us being around, your game can also last a lot longer.
For me, I might have only come in at Premium Beta but that was due to my personal circumstances at the time. Since them I've bought a HOTAS and DK2. I've purchased Creative Cloud because of ED - as I enjoy making videos that show off the game. I've posted on this forum 610 times up till now. I'm not here to ruin anything for anyone else because it actually ruins it for me. I'm Invested.
I know a lot more feel the same.
Remember folks, I'm not defending my need to play the game here - I'm defending myself and fellow PvP-style players who have received general and personal attacks against their character.
Rant over
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The EVE player thing is especially funny(as one myself), because, as I've essentially said in other posts, YOU WANT US HERE. It's like that scene in Bad Boys 2, when Will Smith and Martin Lawrence grab Dan Marino's car(that he was test driving)and said to him: "we're gonna test drive the (blank) out of this". That's exactly what the devs should want, and the players too. We're test driving this thang. We need to bust it up, twist it, stretch it, expand it, so when it breaks, the devs rebuild that part stronger.
It's the whole point of a beta.
you and OP actually agree...
