EVE would only fail on PS3 if it had its own server. Which it wouldn't. It would serve to bring more players into Tranquility.

But I guess MMOs simply don't belong on console. Much like how dumb, consolized FPS doesn't belong on PC.

By not releasing it on PS3.

The game is fully capable of running on PS3. With mouse and keyboard support and all.

I'd prefer they didn't release it on PC for thematic reasons.

I kind of like the whole separation and two distinct gaming worlds interacting with each other. The relationship between PC and PS3.

If they add this it's going to be almost completely populated by EVE alts who need to do something while they're AFK mining.

Sorry what MMO plays on a console ? think they all failed, where as the PC is home to all things gaming.

If it wasn't for PC FPS wouldn't exist.

.............It's MS wasnt interested..........

I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of Microsoft trying to run EVE pretty much makes my stomach turn.

Actual Fact Alert!


DUST514 not being released on XBOX360 has nothing to do with Microsoft not being interested. At all. The reason CCP went purely with Sony is because of the massive restrictions that Microsoft places on any company wishing to release games on it's console.

The first being that Microsoft refused to let CCP host the game on their own servers. They stipulated that DUST must run on Microsoft owned servers. Secondly there is the issue of updates. Microsoft charges each and every independent producer of games an exorbitant amount of money to release updates and/or patches for their games, and they limit those producers to a fixed number of updates and/or patches per financial year. That has been a policy at Microsoft for a number of years. The Third and final nail in the coffin was Aurum. For obvious reasons CCP want all the revenue from the sale of Aurum in DUST514 to flow straight in to their own coffers. Microsoft had other ideas and were instead insistent that players of DUST would only be able to purchase Microsoft points OR purchase their Aurum from Microsoft, who would then of course take their own cut.


Now when you take all of the above in to consideration; Lack of control over gaming servers and the accompanying network infrastructure, restrictions to updates and content patches and a reduced potential income from any Micro-transactions in the game, it is not hard to see why CCP decided NOT to go with Microsoft as a business partner. Instead, they went with Sony. Sony basically said to CCP "You do whatever you want and we'll support you, all we ask is that players sign in through PSN". Hardly a massive demand when you think about it.


And finally, as if all the above wasn't enough reason to quit griping about Sony and PS3, when CCP told Microsoft that the point of DUST514 was for it to be integrated in to EVE, Microsoft reportedly said "Only if EVE also runs on our servers, otherwise there will be no connection".

I don't know about anyone else, but the idea of Microsoft trying to run EVE pretty much makes my stomach turn.

A bunch of word that ultimately constitutes "not interested".

MS wasn't interested in allowing CCP to host on their own servers.
MS wasn't interested in making it affordable.
MS wasn't interested in letting CCP have control of their MT currency.

MS simply wasn't interested in being a worthwhile partner.

I didn't need to post a wall of text to make one simple point.
MS wasnt interested.

Final Fantasy XI, and Everquest come to mind readily. But don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing for Eve to be on consoles, I don't think IT would work there. But I will say I was gaming LLOOONNNGGG before I ever got a PC, so...yeah.



I don't buy that for a second. That's like saying that if there had been no Lord of the Rings, then D&D wouldn't exist. Saying that discounts a slew of authors, Robert Howard and Lovecraft come to mind with little prompting, and the work they did. In other words, if it's going to exist, then nothing will stop that.

can you name any major first person shooter that was on console before PC? Not sure where you are going with your D&D analogy because D&D was a board game, then a PC game before it was ever on console. When I refer to a First Person Shooter, the 1st major offline games I can remember were being Wolfenstein and Doom, which orginally, came out for PC before any console was ever capable of doing so. You may not but it for a second but I'll buy that for HISTORY

can you name any major first person shooter that was on console before PC?

But that wasn't the argument.

The argument was that, without PCs, FPSes wouldn't exist, as if the genre would have been unimaginable without PCs. Just because they came out there first doesn't mean that this was the only way the genre could have been invented, and claiming that it would have been impossible to invent it on consoles is patently absurd.

There were plenty of FPS-precursors long before the genre was codified through Wolf3D and Doom GÇö the entire lightgun arcade segment was already there and the big leap on PC was one of having more processing power available to not just use static backdrop environments, not one of coming up with the the basic concept of an FPS. This first-person shooter was out on consoles eight years before Wolf3D, for instanceGǪ

So as Jimmy was saying, if it's going to exist, then nothing will stop that.