Bomberlocks
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Posted - 2009.07.24 18:32:00 -
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 Originally by: El'Niaga
Originally by: El'Niaga
Unimpressed, but then I've been unimpressed for the last few expansions.
Been playing for almost 4 years and you've talked about Ambulation for 4 years but have nothing really to show for it. Basically its clear that its not a priority, never really was and the teasers at the various fan fests are just that teasers. So basically it's vaporware.
It's been on the list of future development longer than anything else.
If you've found that it cannot be done, say so, stop leading people on. That goes for everything on the future features list that your working on that's been there 2 years or more (which is about 90% of what's there).
Then once you clean up the list actually put forth the honest future features you really are working on and keep the list manageable such that they could reasonably be done in a year or two.
Actually I'm a realist. For the functions stated they would provide 4 years is plenty of development time, there are games released that spend less time in development.
We are talking about inside stations of what 25 different station designs? Then a few changes of clothes, some modular spaces that allow a shop, office, bar, personal space, maybe a common deck area like DS9 (a Promenade).
No combat.
Since there is little in the way of game mechanics impact...no skills, etc. Some new BPOs perhaps for clothes. Your main input time would be artwork.
Thus I contend it has not been a priority and never was, just was offered as eye candy to dangle like a carrot in front of the donkeys.
I have to agree with that. WIS is pretty obviously marketing vapourware. The demos we've seen up until now can not be realitically implemented into the current EVE universe without some serious hardware and network improvements, as far as I see it. No, I think WIS basically a tool that CCP marketing uses to draw new players to eve, and holds out the carrot of WIS on occasion to keep interest up.
So much of Eve is pure bullshit. There never has really been a need for things like T2 or now T3. The essence of eve is moronic PvE and very good PvP, and you don't need all the extra bling for that. The extra stuff is simply timesink material to get people to spend more time waiting for whatever skill or amount of isk so that CCP keeps its revenues up.
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