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Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.14 05:32:00 -
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If you don't want to invest time in WIS then perhaps licence another company to develop an addon that can pull data from the EVE api.
Basically I dock in say Jita, click my captains quarters door, that logs me in to the third party client's server. I'll even pay a subscription for it.
Theres a lot of interest in WIS, social interaction is a huge market to tap into, look at Facebook, Sims, WoW, even these forums, people come for the social interaction. Its one of the main things missing from EVE, which is basically a very anti-social game.
People like to show off their bling, they like full body avatars. You have simple items like reverse sided monocles selling for 30 billion isk in game and you can't even see them except for in a 2D pic. 30 billion isk for a monocle is $950 worth of plex, for one in game vanity item.
You guys are sitting on a potential major cash cow if you go ahead with it. EvE is a great game, with the pvp of EVE and the depth of WIS it'll be completely unique.
Adding gambling such as casino's, aur 3d shopping and so on its guaranteed to be a success and having a 3rd party develop it if CCP doesn't want to is not going to be that risky...
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Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.14 06:39:00 -
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Destination SkillQueue wrote:I don't agree that EVE is anti-social in any way. If anything it's more social, but it also breeds healthy mistrust between people. I talk, coordinate, operate and have fun with people I don't know or trust in the game all the time. I think it would be more accurate to say, that WIS could expand on that social space. It could create new reasons and new type of reasons for people to mingle and interact with people outside their usual circles and in that way broaden and strengthen the social interaction already happening.
That said I don't want to see a 3rd party development and I don't think it's a good idea anyway. If CCP has trouble coming up with compelling ways to integrate WIS with EVE and create meaningful content for it, what chance does a third party have. More likely they'll mess it up somehow and it'll be sticking out like a sore thumb from the rest of the game. That presents a huge risk for CCP, since any problems, incompatibilities and milking of players for their money will justly be blamed on CCP. So either they should do it properly themselves or not do it at all.
At the moment CCP certainly lacks the will to do it, since they still remember the burns of their initial failure. They'll probably return to it at some point though, since the concept itself never failed. CCP just failed miserably to realize the concept and deliver on most of the promises. It'll likely happen when CCP has gained more financial stability. At the moment they don't want to risk rocking the boat, since EVE is their only major source of money, but they have to pay for the upkeep and development of multiple titles. It's this lack of success in making new popular games, that is making them very conservative with their EVE development. They simply can't afford even the risk of another potential Incarna at this stage.
You make some really good points. I'd rather they did it themselves too. Also even if a 3rd party developed it, CCP could have control over the whole process, depending on the contract they entered into. |
Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.14 13:10:00 -
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Davon Mandra'thin wrote:I personally think a third part client with subscription that is a purely social environment is a terrible terrible idea.
But I have liked your post just as a show of support for the idea that WiS should continue development sooner rather than later.
Thank you. As I said above if it was CCP doing it that'd be great. Third party could run and host but it could still be integrated on the front end so from a users perspective it would be part of EvE. |
Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.14 17:59:00 -
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Swiftstrike1 wrote:Infinity Ziona wrote:people come for the social interaction. Its one of the main things missing from EVE, which is basically a very anti-social game You must be playing the game wrong. Success is Eve is more dependent on social interaction with other players than in any other game I have ever played.
When I say it's antisocial I mean the gameplay itself. The gameplay is focused on killing, scamming, lying, stealing and generally making anyone not a part of your exclusive club deader, poorer and sadder.
That's pretty antisocial by anyone's definition.
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Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.15 04:24:00 -
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Personally I think a PvP aspect would be awful unless it was carefully controlled which is quite difficult in an alt infested game.
Even of some of the non-random death match servers in many MMO's you have constant RDM killings and its very very difficult to control unless you sit there constantly kicking people from the servers.
Perhaps war decs excluded. But getting ahead of ourselves really.
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Infinity Ziona
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Posted - 2013.12.15 04:42:00 -
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Arthur Aihaken wrote:Why won't this idea just... die.
Too many players want it? |
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