SOE plans to monetize KDR.

Does this guy ever make a concise post ?
I'll do it for him :

K/D is meaningless in this game , and yet SOE seem to have found a way to make money out it .
Well good luck to that , if it keeps the game afloat , then let those spend the money if it tickles their fancy .

I want the stat gone since it's pointless and it's basically ruining the game and you want to keep it in. How am i agreeing with you again ?

You don't know anything. Buzz has been harping about KDR since early Beta. In fact since release I think this is his 4th thread he's put up, and the 5th or 6th time he's significantly mentioned it in a post.

I say leave it, but I also say it's irrelevant. Whether it's visible or not it's always tracked. But we both say it's irrelevant.

People just hate with no reasons. I gave up trying to understand them. Even if someone makes a good point(as Buzz does in this post) they will disagree just because they can.

K/D also help with flagging cheaters. It won't always be visible, but it'll always be tracked.

Money grabs??!?

Businesses exist to make money and create value for shareholders. Period. SoE wanting to make money off the ego's of gamers is not some evil slippery slope that will lead to more schemes down the road. If you don't like it, close your wallet.

If you're really looking for something to fear or if you're worried about slippery slopes and money making schemes you need not look further than Washington DC. SoE is should be the very least of your concerns in that regard.

Something irrevelant must exist In order to attract some players from a "certain" game.
SOE must make money, you know.

Yes, really. You have a skewed view given the fact that you are an outfit leader of a very large outfit. I see the folks soloing, and trust me.. those folks haven't left. SOME left, but many remain. SOEs action alone proves my point, otherwise why would they even focus on it? I'm trusting them to know their customer base better than you, without any reservations.

We know it is. But how many people aren't playing the game as they should,how many aren't helping their team because of that pointless stat? Too many. If you ever joined a biolab fight or actually any fight at all you can easily see the effect it has on people. They just stack up in that spawn room and try to get some cheap kills before they lose the base...

KDR isn't what makes people not fight overwhelming forces. Crappy defensive fortifications and absolutely no incentive to defend territories are the main reasons nobody tries to defend against large forces. I wouldn't care about KDR if defending against 10X my number wasn't a recipe for getting instantly camped anytime I leave a spawn room.

I'm trying to picture the design team during the meeting for this k/d erasing microtransaction and everyone nodding their heads thinking to themselves this is a good idea. This trumps any and everything EA has put out for their own games.

How much are you guys in the hole with this game to come up with something like this? This "free to play" model reminds me of SWTOR. Next ill have to pay to put title on or pay to change a camo. Heads up SOE that's not the model you wanna take after....

People still won't play the game "as they should". You can remove K/D, and while it may help a zergfit move more of their forces, it still won't help the zerg in general because people still have an aversion to getting shot and having to respawn.

When game balance is suffering or being changed for the sole purpose of moving sales, they've already slid down the slope that you claim doesn't exist.

We've already seen tanks get nerfed and vehicle kill XP get buffed for the purpose of encouraging the sales of the latest weapon release (ESRLs). The tank nerfs weren't intended to and have had no effect on spawn camping which is what they were claimed to, they've simply helped to move those rocket launchers.

It has hit a point where they are no longer ashamed of altering the mechanics of their game in the hopes that targeted items will sell more, and you're diverting the entire argument to a completely unrelated topic, rather telling.

I love my K/D stat.
I track it.
I protect it.
I play like it matters.

I am not here to take a base.
I am not here to defend a base.
I could not care less for my fellow gamers on the battlefield.
For they exist for one reason only.
To be my targets.

I want to kill as many of you as I can without taking any deaths.
I am not about "fair".
I am not about displaying some "skill" set to make the dead happy.
All I need you to do is die.

Pretty sure it won't happen on a scale as large as this. Like really sure. But then again $OE didn't realize planetside needs to be different in order to compete on the market. They still want to copy other games,and if they keep that up the game will be a big flop...and i'm worried since i really like the game.

One extra observation that no one has touched on.. everyone is assuming that folks 'hug in their spawn' to protect their K/D. But that is only ONE way of looking at it.. frequently I'll sit in a spawn and not exit when it looks hopeless but I still want to milk the enemy for CERTS but not GIVE them CERTS. And I'm ALWAYS rewarded with folks that feel obliged to dodge out looking for folks exiting the spawn I'm camping.. that I milk for CERTS. I'm never disappointed in this regard.

I've never cared about my K/D at all and will take risks all day long for the team.. but I DO hunt certs, and in situations where its greater that 2:1 and my team mates start abandoning the base, I'll choose easy CERTS before getting back on the lets-win-this-train.

I dont see any problem with the K/D possesed crowd supporting SoE with money.

Frankly with the inroduction of sayd consumable the stat will be even less important.

Who gives a ***** about K/D anyway?

Irrelevant. But you are playing the game "As you should".