We didn't promise it for Inferno (at least as far as I know and can find out about) but in the thread on the Character Creator changes for Inferno CCP karkur stated:


That's still the case.

Wait, so you donate Aurum (remember, most of that 5500 everyone got is unspent). You get stuff equal in value to that Aurum (exclusivity = High Price). Then CCP spends more money on Incarna for you.

I don't think you're clear on how "Fundraising" works.

A kickstarter would be fine. But I think you're underestimating how much money it would require to hire a staff to put out more Incarna faster without taking more resources away from FIS.

I don't really think CCP needes more money to do WiS properly but a fundraiser would certainly make a point in how much the community wants it.

Sometimes, working the forums is not enough.

Remeber "Retake Mass Effect"? Well, I was part of it, and setting up these "child's play" donations really turned a few heads.^^

That's the thing, it seams that the EVE community is pretty divided on that topic...

we can talk about as much as we want,but we will be left in the dark about WIS .

CCP policy as is.

Last summer.

Unless you're one of those people who believed that CCP were swayed by shooting a statue, and not by the tens of thousands of unsubscriptions.

Oh, I do like the random made up number of accounts that unsubbed by someone
who, like the rest of us has no freaking idea how many IF any unsubbed. Just pulling
numbers out of your ...

Furthermore, your speculation as to why people unsubbed(if indeed they did) is
complete conjecture. I for one believe that many people had been joining EVE
in anticipation of Incarna, anmd when they arrived at the "this is it?" moment, they
left, and now that it seems certain that CCP is never going to make the step forward
to grow the game, more will be leaving.

Do you really want people to go play something else? do you really want less people
playing EVE, and less people to be compeled to try it? Surely I must misunderstand.

If wis was any good people would choose to load it, if it is just a bunch of dudes emoting each other, why the hell would i turn it on? The core problem of wis is nonexistant gameplay, that's why it is not loaded on many clients. Are you so afraid that nobody wants to load it that the only way to make it useful is to make it mandatory like some kind of pathetic pat on one's own back?

For CCP, It all comes down to a major road block though. It is extremely hard to render multiple avatars in the same location. That is why we are all locked in our own tiny cells in stations. Whether it be the fact that these are resources that CCP just doesn't have, or just don't have the capital for at this time. Its kind of the opposite with SWTOR if you think about it. Walking around on planets allows you to interact with others, but the spaceship side of things is just YOU, and that's it. Maybe one of these days they will figure it out. But I think they need a ton more subscribers to even think about continuing the WIS project.

It's not that easy. Albeit they could import the geometry, the tough work is with texture, lighting and effects, and all those are related to the engine and can't be exported from DUST to EVE or vice versa.

Actually, one of the moot points with having en engine for DUST and another for EVE is that building the same stuff in both games would require 180% of the work of building it for only one of them. It's not like doing everything twice, but almost.

In a sense, EVE is too good for its own good, as if EVE used DUST's off-the-shelve engine, developing WiS for EVE would be quite faster and easier. Put bluntly, you need top notch dvelopers to make EVE, whereas the industry is full of people who can do a great work with standard engines, for a fraction of the cost, and in places like Shanghai. Standing on the shoulder of giants it's easier than being a giant yourself.

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/63099/1/00_tutorial_quit_graph.png

Notice the big spike after CQ and prior to skill queueing, then a second big spike right before the pilot certification course.