Marston VC
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lordjanuz wrote:So this is straight from Hilmar as he see it : CSM8 August 2013 : Ripard
added that there are upcoming competitors for both EVE Online the space game and
DUST 514 the shooter. "We're concerned that other companies are going to infringe
upon this fantastic combination that you are creating even before you can get it going,"
he said. Trebor added that when CCP starts marketing DUST 514 strongly (as
announced at Fanfest), the link is a potential differentiator from DUST's competition and
if it isn't a strong differentiator, it will be harder to sell DUST.
Hilmar was very understanding of the question and in particular held up Nova Knife's
posts about DUST as really hitting the nail on the head about the need to make DUST
514 a really kick-ass shooter. Over a period of a few minutes, he made it very clear thatCCP's primary focus for the time being will be to improve the DUST 514 gameplay
outside of the EVE-DUST link and build up DUST's reputation and audience in the
challenging F2P market.
Instead, the focus will be on improving the DUST experience; in particular, the focus will
be on grabbing shooter fans right from the get-go. As a result, while Team True Grit will
continue to build on the EVE-DUST link, Hilmar feels very strongly that they should
focus on the DUST experience and build a shooter that CCP can be proud of.
Link : http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/csm/CSM8_August_Summit_Minutes.pdfI am not sure if that is wise, what do you think folks.
8 months ago, when gameplay was terrible, this was a valid way to approach the games development. The gameplay is pretty good now however, and I think CCP realizes the game is much improved since then. All they need to do is flesh out the remaining racial dropsuits and maybe a few new heavy weapons, and from there they could start building up FW in a way were it more significantly effects EVE online. The Caldari FW event that was largely organized by Castor crave a couple weeks ago was the first attempt of its kind.
Many of this communities largest corporations put aside our differences and qued up for CFW in an attempt to assist eve pilots in plexing. The idea was that if we could assist in them plexing, eve pilots would begin to see the value in using Dust mercs to participate with them. Well the UI just isn't there yet. We couldn't effectively help the eve pilots because we couldn't choose which contracts we were given, and its things like that which I believe people like CCP nullabor will be working on (I think(because im pretty sure he programs UI though I could be wrong)). But you also have to keep in mind that there are different teams doing different things. Sure there will/should be focus on the EVE link, however there will always be focus on improving the game play as well, because CCP devides the work into teams.
Marston VC, STB Director
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