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Posted - 2013.09.13 13:36:00 -
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Medical Crash wrote:
I wish CCP put as many resources into DUST as it puts into EVE, which seems like it has a LOT of support.
Oh man, EVE receives multitudes more resources and general care into EVE than they do into Dust. With good reason of course, it's EVE that's keeping the servers up, any revenue from Dust is really just a happy little bonus.
But it can be a little disconcerting sometimes how far removed CCP Shanghai can be when compared to the rest of the company, I really do feel like there isn't communication there. It's like they're just telling the main office, "Yeah, everything's under control here, all's good, there are a few bugs but they'll be hammered out soon enough."
There even seems to be some communication problems inside the Shanghai office itself tbqh. There have been several occurrences now of people posting about stealth nerfs or buffs that the community devs first deny, then after actually asking if it was changed they come back saying, "yeah, sorry about that, you were right."
But in EVE, if there's a change on anything at all in the game, threads are made in the forums for each change by the devs themselves to receive feedback on months in advance.
The one occurance that really stood out for the Shanghai office to me was this one. Jump to 53:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKYglEoJyNc
There's a question from an audience member about head glitching. This was a near game breaking issue that pervaded the game since even before Chromosome back in Codex when they finally increased the render distance for players so that you could see someone from across the map with a sniper rifle. The problem being that the rocky terrain around a character won't render correctly at range and you shoot what appears to be the enemy, but is only a false image.
This was such a large problem that if it didn't have at least one thread a day made on the front page or continued, it was an incredibly slow day. And yet when the audience member asked the question, the devs hadn't even heard of it.
By the way guys, head glitching is still a problem. I was shooting at a guy camped up on a mountain under the MCC getting the reticule directly over their head with headshot efficiency showing and their shields flashing, but no damage applying when I shot them. Seriously, this has been around for almost a year now, it's getting kinda old. |