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Deborah Bat-Zeev
Observant Eye Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.19 22:02:00 -
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Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:Vincent Athena wrote:The fanfest program is out. One of the hour long session is called "Prototyping the Future":
"Team Avatar and Team Prototyping Rocks have been
developing new gameplay ideas for EVE over the past
year and a bit. Come along and find out what prototyping
is all about and see some of the ideas they came up
with for features as diverse as Mining and Exploration.
They will also be discussing the new features they are
implementing for the summer expansion which were
generated as a result of these efforts."
My guess is we will see the prototype wreck diving stuff at least. No idea about mining prototypes or what they are implementing in the summer expansion. But it appears there will be more implemented than nothing. Those barely can be called news. We already know what they've prototyped and at least I already have voiced how it serves me nothing as it's miles away from my style of gameplay. The last bloody thing I want is 20-guys, combat-only, five-hours-long avatar bovine fecal matter.
Well, once they actually manage to get multi-avatar gameplay working it shouldn't be too difficult to add more WiS features bit by bit over the next years. At least, it would prove that they're not just too god-damn incompetent to deal with avatars and that more is possible. Question, though, is whether the next expansion actually features the exploration FPS (or third person shooter) thing or if the part about stuff being implemented in the summer expansion is raising false hopes. Adding the exploration shooter with an exploration themed expansion would make more sense than if they added it in a year with, say, a POS themed expansion, anyway.
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Deborah Bat-Zeev
Observant Eye Inc
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Posted - 2013.04.24 19:00:00 -
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Ranger 1 wrote: and I'd MUCH prefer that when all is said and done that CCP receives praise for their efforts instead of flames.
Well, currently there are no efforts. Zero. Zilch. Nada. The last remnants of avatar development have been shelved half a year ago and it's obvious CCP won't change anything about that in the forseeable future. Why would they if there are enough players happy with the little they get and piling up alt accounts like they're going to be sold out tomorrow. I do believe that CCP Bayesian is honest about his enthusiasm for avatars in Eve and his assessment of the situation but what he basically says is that DUST and WOD gobble up most of CCP's resources and what's left is barely enough to get a few fixes and tweaks done for existing Eve gameplay. Given that DUST will still require several years of focused attention after its release to become an at least somewhat competitive game and that WOD isn't even anywhere near beta stage, when will CCP have the spare resources to actually continue working on avatars? 2020? 2025? |
Deborah Bat-Zeev
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.10 09:50:00 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:You got your lore wrong. I remember at least two chronicles where capsuleer crews are key. All these lives are fit to ruin. (A capsuleer investigates a survivor of the destruction of his ship and crew)Prosopagnosia. (A capsuleer plays wicked games with his crew.)
The lore may say so to further illustrate CCP's sociopathic and socialdarwinistic hardcore Randian teabagger ideology, but as long as there's not a single hint in-game that there are actually other people on your ship crews can be considered non-existing.
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Deborah Bat-Zeev
Blue Republic
RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2013.08.04 11:14:00 -
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Aidan Brooder wrote:
In any case, when the CSM election happened there was not a single CSM candidate - at least as far as I remember - who was for anything WiS. So it comes at no great surprise that they did not pick anything WiS.
Actually, Malcanis stated on his candidate platform that he wants CCP to at least talk again about their future plans for WiS. The other people in current CSM are either indifferent about or explicitly against WiS, though.
Aidan Brooder wrote:
But to add one point: the time of "Bug fixes" must be over!
When I picked from the list of 99 items that were chosen by the CSM, I found it hard to find anything except for "improved Drone Controls" that really made me say: "Whew, yeah we need this!"
Point is, Eve won't get any large expansions. Period. Eve only serves as a cash cow now to fund CCP's other projects and you can't expect much more than the handful of fixes, stats changes, (mostly terrible) ship paint jobs and UI tweaks that we've seen in the last years. Calling for anything beyond miniscule changes would be about as realistic as demanding democracy in North Korea. |
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