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Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.06 11:03:00 -
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Avatar content is costly, CCP's R&D budget ($12-16 millions per year) isn't enough to develop it, you better enjoy spaceships PvP because it's cheap.
P.S. Installed Star Trek Online today, game isn't too good but at last it has more sci-fi components than EVE. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.06 17:25:00 -
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Rhes wrote:Let's hope CCP keeps their promise to focus on real Eve content.
What real EVE content? Cheap F2P-like PvP? It's abundant and is free in 100s of other games and has better quality there. EVE was supposed to be great sci-fi game but in reality it's set of primitive and boring mini-games (rotation around anchors in FW plexes is so boring people actually fall asleep there) with zero to none sci-fi content besides graphics and text-based quests with interface from from mid-90s.
Avatar gameplay could change that yet the management of CCP is lacking leadership so badly they've scrapped multi-million investments into Incarna just because the game lost 5% accounts of multiboxers whose computers simply couldn't launch more than a single client. Which is no longer the case (multiboxing is thriving again) so development may continue. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.10 08:27:00 -
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I'm playing Star Trek Online for 5 days already - there is so much "walking" content I don't believe it may be too costly or too complicated to create. And I had conversation couple days ago when a person said "I pay for PLEXes to skip PvE completely" - no surprise CCP does not want to develop this game further when *people pay money to skip gameplay* (approximately $20 millions per year as I calculated).
EVE supposed to be a sci-fi sandbox but it's degraded into PvP game (according to "content" of updates) - and there are tons of F2P PvP games with better combat and EVE xan compete with them only because it has sandbox part which wasn't upgraded lately. This is phenomenal and devastating situation where devs literally sold their souls and vision. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.10 08:37:00 -
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Roime wrote:If you think about it, PVE really isn't gameplay to most players- it's something they have to endure to get to participate in the actual gameplay
MMO, remember, not MNPCO
I remember PvP-only servers in Ultima and Asheron - there was literally handful of players. "Actual gameplay" (PvP) is actually attractive for like 5% of players. EVE has higher percent of PvPers only because PvE players look for content anywhere else - just like I'm switching to Star Trek right now. Because that game actually has sci-fi content and updates.
As for PvP in EVE - well, I don't like chess. I prefer checkers i.e. War Thunder, Planetside 2 and many other games which don't take hours to fit for combat and find targets. EVE could compete with them only as long as it had sandbox including PvE - but then PvE is exactly the same as 2-3 years ago it's not interesting. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.11 13:25:00 -
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Someone just deleted 5 pages (!) of comments in this "discussion" - out of 20 pages total. Every 4th post is against ToS. Bravo, ToS authors!
But what's the point in posting then? Thread will be decimated anyway... And decimation was more humane compared to this censorship. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.12 06:15:00 -
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~15 people fired from World of Darkness team / CCP Atlanta office. That means more resources for EVE and possible WiS development boost - right, guys?...
It's like CCP is doing everything they can to lose in upcoming spaceship MMO sandbox competition.
/me launching "the other"* game because it has avatar content besides spaceships.
* cannot name it, don't want to see this post deleted. |
Lipbite
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Posted - 2013.12.18 11:13:00 -
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There is no point to bother with development of anything but spaceship PvP when almost half of company's income is coming from people paying for PLEXes to skip most of content. I bet until EVE will not start sinking we won't see anything actually interesting but cheap and boring PvP-oriented mini-games (to boost PLEX sales). |
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