Halycon Gamma
Caldari
The Flying Tigers
United Front Alliance
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Posted - 2011.06.07 09:19:00 -
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Edited by: Halycon Gamma on 07/06/2011 09:21:35
I have a question or two. And I honestly would like to hear your thought process on this.. because if I'm thinking this all the way through... Dust is the most ambitious game ever made. From a business standpoint its even more ambitious than EvE.
You got the whole interlink with EvE thing.. yada yada.. you're adding a lobby system and a market system.. okay. All this is standard fare compared to what I see as the most ambitious part of this whole venture. You want this to succeed for any amount of time on a console?
I can think of 1, exactly 1, FPS that does even half of what you're trying to pull off and could be deemed successful. TF2. And it was a dismal failure on consoles. It sold copies, but its online presence was a flash in the pan. Almost all console games online presence are a flash in the pan compared to its PC rivals.
And how are you going to handle comms gracefully. Interconnection to EvE Gate is all well and good, but console players have no keyboard, and EvE voice is not exactly well used.
Did CCP really think this out, because the amount of obstacles you've put in front of yourselves is simply mindblowing.
You may have some secret sauce I'm unaware of. And you may say EvE and Dust will work on their own merits without each other. But as CCP keeps saying over and over.. EvE is forever. Dust simply can't be. Either if fails miserably, or Sony releases PS4 sometime in the next 4-6 years, and it dies at that point. In the meantime you've added, and plan on continuing to add, bits into EvE which tie into Dust. Dust simply cannot be forever.
So what happens then? Does dust development get rolled into EvE itself where it should have been all along? So many things I just don't get, and don't understand. Dust at its best can only be a short term grasp for cash.
I really would like to know anything, absolutely anything about CCP's thought process in regards to Dust. Because sitting here in front of my keyboard it makes no sense if I try looking at it as a long term part of the EvE Universe.
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