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Posted - 2013.08.10 08:47:00 -
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Asher Night wrote:Killar-12 wrote:
Meh, I'd point at EVE to counter your point but I think that Dust might get repackaged and renamed before it's put on PS4 (If CCP wants people to buy it.)
Lol I cant tell you how tired I am of having to address this point. What you said is like saying "America beat Japan pretty devastatingly so they'll have no problem with the middle east". Eve is pretty much the only space ship mmo you can go to - they completely dominate that market. If you hate EVE but love spaceship mmo's, you really don't have many options. On top of having that market cornered, who even tries to compete with them? It is also on PC and PC players have much, MUCH more patience than console players. Dust is an FPS - one of many, many FPS's. If you don't like it, just wait a week for the next FPS to be released. Dust has nothing BUT competition. Its on a console - console players do not have anywhere near the amount of patience pc players do. Ccp can't do what it did with EVE and expect Dust to succeed. Flipping a coin with the same hand will not always make it land on heads - especially when you are in a storm.
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Asirius Medaius
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Posted - 2013.08.10 09:13:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:We could delete battle academy and go back to the days of not having it :P
Either way the original 20k was apparently too much as well having new unique players quitting during that period.
Yeah, sure, go ahead and take away the battle academy; Replace it with some PVE and you will have a huge influx of people who can actively get to know the game mechanics while shooting some Drone scum on a battlefield. However, if you keep progressing down this path (talking mostly to you CCP, and also all of you at CPM, who are equally as guilty for an underdeveloped game such as this) you are going to lose this game before Christmas.
I mean it, this game is going to lose over 40 to 50 percent of its people if CCP doesn't pull their head AT LEAST halfway out of their a**.
You put in PVE, and you can take out your silly BA that is only racking more and more hate. Hell, you put in PVE, and you don't even really need matchmaking anymore, and then it could still be New Eden; Just give every player an option to cooperate with other people and make isk while they learn the damn game.
Sometimes, I don't even know if CCP Shanghai or CPM has ever played EVE Online. When you start in the universe of EVE Online, you are given a small little rookie ship, and many choices whether you want to engage other people off-the-bat or not (depending if you like PVP or PVE). Also, remember that a large majority of EVE Online players (called "Carebears" by certain parts of the community) like to do mission running or anything that allows them to casually attack NPC enemies for good isk.
Maybe I don't know how to run a profitable company, but at least I know how to prioritize s**t to generate enough diverse interests to keep this game afloat; and believe me CCP, the choices you are making right now are not going to save you from drowning, unless you change right now.
Tl;Dr: Screw matchmaking and the Battle Academy, just scrap it, and replace all of it with PVE, which will allow people to get used to the game mechanics, make isk, and furthermore, allow an option for them to get battle-ready over time without forcing them to pit against other people. You can't assume everyone wants to PVP, unless you want your game to fail... Which by all means CCP, is under your control alone.
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