Atikali Havendoorr
Mannar Focused Warfare
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.28 12:19:00 -
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What about the fact that online play costs money on the PS4?
I think that a PS4 version wont see the surface until next year. CCP actually said it themselves, and it makes perfect sense. In 2015 installed user base will be high enough for Dust, and CCP will have enough time to make a PS4 client.
This whole Dust project was balanced on a very small line of shared resources. They didn't have the ability to start a whole new team using completely different technology (game engine) to keep both games up on a high quality level.
So, they relied on their own Carbon engine, thus (drastically? my speculation) reducing the need for hiring personnel and build, maintain and develop competence for two platforms.
When they finally realized that the Carbon engine couldn't run a game like this on the PS3, everything broke.
Switching game engine meant they lost over a year of development time, missing their scheduled 2012 release and breaking the whole concept of shared resources, which meant restrained integration with Eve online, both in terms of difficulties technically implanting upgrades and changes to both games in tandem, and having separated development teams which cannot lend a hand to each other if needed.
The UE team don't know about Carbon, since it's CCP proprietary engine, and the Carbon team don't know about anything else.
This is why Dust still sucks and isn't finished. They can't keep two full teams, which would be required to keep both games top notch, so they focus on EveO, which is their foundation after all, and do what they can with Dust with what is left.
They are slowly catching up of course, but they are still far from the target, and have settled for a vastly different level of gaming experience for now.
I heard that Dust actually is just above break even in terms of investment. If the number are correct, they naturally wouldn't waste a lot more recourses in an attempt to higher the stakes a lot with the risk of making it worse. It is "ok" for now.
Sorry for kicking the dead horse a little further, but people forget the origination of things. |