Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2013.05.14 08:06:00 -
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Speaking as a non-FPS person here (my encounters in the FPS area was some minor Blood and Quake3 Arena 10 years ago). Since then I've not played any FPS, never tried CS, CoD, MW, BF or similar.
Due to the love of EVE (also the only game I played for the past 10 years except some hours of Final Fantasy on PS) I tried DUST. And my impression is that just as EVE, DUST isn't the normal FPS where you just go right into it and shoot like crazy.
It takes a similar level of training and thinking like EVE in terms of choosing what to train for and similar. So I think maybe the focus group of DUST isn't the normal FPS player that will try the new game that comes out until the next one arrives. DUST looks more aimed at the long term player - like myself.
Of course we go screaming DUST is dying, CCP is doing it all wrong... wait wrong? Yeah they might be doing things that are wrong from various perspectives, sure I'd like to have it on PC as well so I don't have to move between the computer and PS3. Question is, do we really know exactly what their intentions are? Is their intentions to completely run over CoD, BF, CS and you name it? Could their goal be like EVE to build over time, a long term relationship with its players and not just until the next game comes out?
I'm not claiming to know the right path, I don't even claim I have any idea if CCP knows what they are doing - for all I know this could be a huge screw up. What I do know though is that it's most likely too soon for anyone to make a proper judgement if this is going to work or not.
They do listen to the players, just as they do and did in EVE, I've seen many times in EVE were it feels like they don't listen and other times when they are sitting in your lap listening. Plus the fact that we've only been in beta until today makes the call of death even harder.
I personally find DUST very enjoyable, but then that doesn't say much due to my limited experience with FPS games, but I for one am very interested to see how it turns out even if we won't know more within the next year (probably), and hopefully by then we will also see what CCP's intentions are and what their strategy is, and for whom.
Finally, do the numbers look good? Well it's going down like one would expect from the hype calming down (and it has for a while now) but still having 3000-4000 players on, that's quite good, EVE peaked at 5000 back in the days too, so what are we expecting here? 25,000 online on average after 2 months? I seriously doubt that, I'd be surprised if we kept and average of over 10,000 in the first year - but I find it all very interesting to be a part of.
/c
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