George Moros
WarRavens
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.08.19 09:57:00 -
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RedRebelCork wrote:Michael Arck wrote:That was a terrible review which reads like somebody from the forums wrote it.
I say this, EVE was pooped on when it first arrived. People cried about that being too difficult or dismissing it as "spreadsheets in space".
10 years later it thrives on, no one is saying anything and the core community keeps on playing.
EVE is not commercially appealing and yet it does extremely well. This will happen with Dust. It's just not a commercially appealing title. I mean c'mon, he's complaining about bland colors of Dust 514? Since when the reputation of New Eden warrants vibrant coloring? The world is dark and grim.
He complains about Dust difficulty and then he goes to play Demon's Souls. I'm tired of this assumption that EVE being successful despite a bad release inevitably means Dust will be successful too if we stick it out. I gets bandied about far too often without any supporting evidence. I hope Dust is successful, but I'd rather stay realistically open-minded than unrealistically optimistic. If CCP plays their cards right Dust 514 could one day be far bigger than EVE. Here's hoping.
I think you're missing the point Michael Arck is making. Nobody can be certain whether DUST will thrive or die. But if you judge a game's success primarily by the number of active subscribers or by the total profit it has made for the company, then EVE too is not a successful title. It's mediocre at best. Yet nobody in their right mind can say that a game which goes on for over a decade, and has constant growth in player base during that entire time has failed.
DUST too will probably never be a game that will attract hordes of people. Most people don't have the dedication nor the attention spans necessary to play that type of games (I'm not trying to offend anyone here, just stating fact). However, news headlines from gaming websites are more likely to contain events that happened in DUST, rather than CoD or BF, because in DUST (if it develops as advertised), these events will have meaning, importance and consequences.
So, DUST may fail, or it may succeed. What's important to note is that the definition of "success" is not the same for everyone. Most people find EVE incredibly intimidating and/or boring to even consider trying it out for a minute. Yet some think EVE is simply the only MMO worth playing - everything else is just plain silly compared to it. Same may be true for DUST.
CCP has proved that the (relatively) modest income they have from EVE is enough to keep the company healthy and running (and develop completely new titles from scratch). Having a difficult and underwhelming start is not exactly news to these guys. IMHO, some people are just too apocalyptic about DUST's inability to knock everyone off their feet at first glance. |