CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.05.02 19:22:00 -
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I read SOME Gamer/PC websites' interviews with Legion's "Producer" Jean-Charles Gaudechon. I understand he's new on the job, and comes from EA's mindset on shooter games and PC games... but he speaks almost back-handedly about Dust 514 like a kid talking about his "grandparents"....(you know, "I luv them, but they're the PAST and they were just the wrong people to do this right"). Someone thinking like he does CAN'T successfully build Dust's full identity. To do that, the devs were right---you HAD to pull it off of PC and format it in the viscreral console-gamer atmosphere.
Yes, there will be a river of underlying contemptuous-cracks, even inside CCP's studios, about how Legion will be Dust 514 finally built as intended. 
....I just don't think PC nor the mindset of Legion's producer is going to make that happen. If Legion does become a happy release (at least 6 months away before we know anything), it is likely to be a Capsuleer game, only in a SUIT instead of a Spaceship.
That's not what Dust 514 was intended to be or was developing into. Dust was to produce a realm of Fighting-Mercenaries. You contract via Capsuleers to help them take or defend owned districts (even PvE add-ons of this were going to be based around an owned or sought-after district.), and THAT is your business. The contract-theme never conceptualized a combat-merc prospecting around on her own.... there's no way for her to be transported from one planet to another except as cattle on a warbarge during a Capsuleer's Contract.
Legion sounds like it primary goal is building that "sandbox" for us. CELESTA is on her own, hanging out at 'home', wants some ISK or gear, (why can't she buy it on the markeplaces from the comfort of her sofa like in Dust, forgot her userID?), visits planet surfaces by way of a warp-teleport unit of some sort, combs for stuff sticking out of the ground, bumps into or finds out about (via a starmap-search-engine device) dangerous drones or other players to compete against. Maybe hears about a fight going on somewhere, and joins in to have some kill-fun. Maybe just an explorer's career path of scavenging for stuff....
THAT's being a "character" from EVE ONline, not being a character from Dust 514. It's not the military-merc who's rigid business is slay-on-hire, war-on-contract, pay my price and I'll burn whole moons!
Legion reads like Eve's privateer aspect getting it's own title, it's NOT Dust 514's function finally somehow being accomplished via PC. Sounds like Eve Online's gameplay component is being slipped out of a Pod and into a Surface Suit. And good for them. It's about fun.
But it's being a privateer. Privateering is cool, and it's what Eve Online allowed with spaceships, but I don't find the walking around danger zones prospecting for my profit appealing enough to want to pay their game. I'm a true merc, and I don't do "miner's digging" for the pot of gold I seek...
I want to to get paid for killing and snatching....in bulk wholesale (OMG, that sounds evil). Dust isn't there yet, but that's the objective.
Privateer/scavenger/exploring in an environmental suit (...if I'm not using it for the sole purpose of COMBAT, is it a combat "dropsuit" anymore?), I don't think my Dust SP, killing-only equipment, and bonuses will be very applicable, would it?....
So Legion likely won't be for me, and I won't need my account transferred. If Dust 514 expires in the future (and I KNOW expiration is not going to happen any time in the next few years), I'm having a basket-load of fun in this experiment, and I'll be watching (and participating) in what comes next with Gallente-merc grin! |