Mithrasith
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Posted - 2009.10.20 16:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Braad Losan
As I read this, I'm amazed at just how vile and angry you all seem to be. As if CCP owes a lifetime of development aligned to your own personal plan.
It's just amazing how many people assume that WIS (Incarna) will not happen. CCP said it's next fall after planetary interaction (which is required for DUST and will be way cool on it's own). Dust looks amazing. As for the game, you don't have to play it. I have a ps3. I don't have an Xbox 360. The games on the ps3 are just awful, I use it for a bluray player, but if they make a compelling game for it I may just get some use out of my ps3.
As for your feeling of betrayal? Remember the NGE from SWG. That WAS BETRAYAL. CCP hiring a bunch of Chinese to make a console game while the rest of ccp works on EvE is not betrayal. If they stopped developing eve and only did DUST then yes I can see that but they are not. They keep pushing the envelope in so many ways. I applaud them for trying to expand the eve universe. I imagine there will be many many corps whose players play both EvE and Dust. It will be awesome to be able to shoot "people in the face" with a rocket launcher for a change and have it affect the overall universe. Many other game companies are just offering "Me too" games. Just look at Warhammer Online and Age of Conan. Both games launched way too early and both launches were text book examples on what not to do. Warhammer was a WoW clone, right down to the goofy looking graphics *shutter. AOC had no content outside of the starting city and its game engine would only work on the highest of high end systems.
The eve client has always kept in mind low end systems. They work their asses off making sure your 5 year old pc can play EVE. If dust came out on PCs you'd need a NEW computer that will cost many many times more than the $300(us) for a new console. But no one even stops to think about that. While I'm sure many will take this as flame bait, it's not. "In the future all restaurants are Taco Bell" I don't want all MMO to be like World of Warcraft. Which they all are because "you can never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator". But CCP took the high road and made a dynamic emergent game experience that no one will even consider developing today due to the "low" subscription numbers.
You should thank CCP for not only developing eve and keep adding to it in major ways, and for not abandoning it for the easy buck. They could drop eve and develop world of darkness and make bank. But they are not. They have committed to expanding eve for many many years and adding to it with DUST.
You guys are awesome. I know what it's like on the other side of the keyboard. People with no earthy idea what it takes to make these awesome games slam you for things that are not true or are so blown out of proportion it defies imagination. From one programmer to all you programmers at CCP, thank you and keep it up the awesome work.
I couldnt agree more. While I sometimes do get frustrated at CCP (as I can be qutie passionate about my characters etc) I do feel that CCP does, overall, have the best interests of the game, and their players in mind. There are many pressures in navigating a business which are not seen by the majority of the player base (nor should they be seen). As a result of these many and varied pressures, and desires to expand and secure the business, it can create results which may not make all stakeholders happy, however you can never make everyone happy.
Ive witnessed CCP time and again responding to player opinions on the game, issues with it, and address those issues to the best of their ability in a concrete manner. Ive never had the experience of another MMO owner/operator doing the same (and Ive played many MMO's like many of you). Its certainly one of the reasons I keep playing to see what they are going to do next, and to see issues in the game resolved to make it more enjoyable. Love fest end.
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