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Posted - 2014.05.04 09:52:00 -
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Fizzer94 wrote:Ulysses Knapse wrote:RemingtonBeaver wrote:It might be because the game was launched on PS3...genius  I doubt it. I'm fairly certain the platform it's launched on has very little to do with what the community wants. RemingtonBeaver wrote:You look like a tool trying defend CCP.  I'm not even defending CCP, I'm defending EVE: Legion. If CCP changed their minds tomorrow and decided not to go ahead with EVE: Legion, I would be the first to criticize them for it. Alright. Why can't it be in both? Why does it have to be one or the other? PS4+PC players in the same matches sounds stellar, IMO.
Really Ulysses, even Captain Picard can't *facepalm* enough with your statements. Let me reiterate a few things that I know for a fact:
- Xbox/Microsoft does charge a fee for any game released on its console
- Said console still charges for multiplayer
- Dust 514 would need to contend with convincing a community to "buy" into EvE; even if you didn't pay for Aurum you still had to pay for the multiplayer
- Dust on the PC has a decently sized community for PC gamers
- Dust on the PS3 may have limitations but the PS console didn't have a strong FPS presence as far as multiplayer games go giving CCP an easy opportunity to tap into players looking for a FPS game (MAG was shutting down and Resistance was along gone).
- Steam had only offered Dust after getting enough votes and this is one of the only other main outlets the PC community would've known had they never played either EvE or heard about CCP
- CCP's overall online presence is pretty small; that's not to say anything about the company but their first major title was EvE and that took several years before it survived as a game and grew. Versus other studios they don't have the same resources and capital for titles. The Sony console made sense from a business aspect.
One lesson about the video game community as well is that it's community vs. business; it's always the preferred method to make and code the game for something that is easier and then to port it to another platform and not vice-versa. If CCP is hurting on the capital end, they may opt for a PS4 platform only because the financial incentives are there. However I don't think that's the case.
If we were thinking from a business aspect, Legion would have to go against Bungie's Destiny and I don't think Legion, with Dust being a paperweight and being forever linked until the game launches, would win this battle. Destiny would be a title more console players would pick up versus PC. Legion would be able to tap into the market that that Destiny isn't focusing on: PC users.
*IF* CCP was confident about their game and their resources going into the future, Dust would even be on the Xbox; if you have a killer game you try to expand it to as many markets as possible. Dust isn't a killer game and CCP doesn't really have anything on the table that let's it brag about what Legion can be. Bungie can at least put its reputation behind Destiny in making a game with a history of proven understanding in the genre it's aiming for.
I would also point out that Dust has shown how different the PC gamers are versus PS3 users. The former might relate Dust to "World of *whatever*", counter-strike and the like. PS3 users think of MAG, Resistance 2 and Unchartered franchise. They don't always have overlapping visions and beliefs in what Dust should be and Legion developers may prefer the opinions and attitudes of PC gamers. It's not like catering to a specific crowd is bad but it does make it seem like they really aren't confident at all about Legion. |