Kevall Longstride
DUST University
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Posted - 2013.12.29 23:41:00 -
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Glad to see someone else, the OP, agrees that PC is kinda pointless and should be ditched till Dust gets into null sec.
A lot of the problems that it seems this operation hit were due to the poor UI. Again.
Why wasn't team deploy in there from day one? Why are we still having even basic Comms problems? For FW to work within the existing Eve system these are the very basics that should be in place.
What it boils down to is that I think PC should never have been brought in and then simply left us to fester in Molden Heath ever since. If it wasn't ready to be expanded beyond MH after a couple of months, then it should never have been brought in at all. All it is done is chuck in vast sums of ISK into an economy that wasn't there to begin with, causing later problems with the player market.
It's been a waste of development time in terms of expanding the interest of the players and the lack of its expansion has just turned it in a Ponzi scheme for a select few. I'm willing to wager that the CCP economists were never brought in on it....
Now, I'm not saying that its a waste of development time if you learned something about how to do and not do things on the PS3 and Unreal engine but I was never a fan of the PC concept, even at Fanfest when it's explained to us.
It also demonstrates something about the design thought process that was going into the game prior to that time. I see signs already that CCP Rouge is changing that design process, but up to Fanfest CCP were putting 'cool' things into the game with seemingly no thought whatsoever as to its long term effects on the game.
FW is a cool idea and certainly a better way of engaging the more casual players than PC in its current form ever will. I'm just very concerned that CCP saw fit to put into the game when the game is lacking the most basic tools to implement it.
In a game like this is going to be, a flawlessly working UI is going to be ESSENTIAL. Simply chucking it in as an afterthought is a recipe for disaster.
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CEO of DUST University
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Kevall Longstride
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.12.30 00:22:00 -
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Cpl Foster USMC wrote:CCP Nullarbor wrote: we havn't done it yet because it's a lot of work I'm saving this for future threads...
I sense that it might find its way onto a T-Shirt at Fanfest...
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.GÇ¥ JFK
Mercenary Clone of Dennie Fleetfoot
CEO of DUST University
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