Xaerael Walkeri
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Posted - 2014.05.04 15:31:00 -
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Serious post, after all the heavy duty trolling I've been doing today.
The answer to your question is far longer than saying what legion will accomplish. It needs a sensible and logical look at why the move is being done.
The most major thing is to unify all CCP's major assets under one platform and UI. Once this is done, true integration can start to be a thing.
Next is the simple fact that the most likely people to be interested in an Eve FPS are Eve players. By definition and neccesity, Eve players have PCs, so it's only a logical progression to put all games on the same platform. (imagine if Sony made "Super mega blaster 2" for the playstation, and then released a stand alone add-on on the xbox. Makes no sense!)
PCs evolve while consoles die. In X years, the PS4 will be gathering dust (no pun intended) under everyone's beds, while everyone uses their new PS5. PCs will still be PCs. Just faster and better. This means in X years CCP doesn't have to completely re-write their game (wasting dev time) to shoehorn it onto the new console. Also, upgrading a PC is almost always cheaper than buying a new console, unless it's a full on upgrade everything session.
PCs are a LOT easier to code for than consoles (though this isn't quite as true with the current gen, since they're essentially low end PCs). The PS3 was notoriously wretched to code for, and saw several long term Playstation advocate companies jump ship to either Xbox or PC as their main coding platform, and then localise to PS3 through a 3rd party. (This is why so many PS3 games have "PS3 version localised by [random games dev company you never heard of]")
There's a whole heap more of really basic reasons. The biggest in my mind is that MMOs simply don't have a long life on a console, and therefore don't really have a place. Dust has such a low number of players now (less than half the regular players that were playing just this time last year). MMOs need growth, not decline, and console MMOs only ever decline.
So, in short, the answer to your question is yes. But not only because of platform, also because of community, longevity, reliable future investment, consolidation, and a raft of other things that will make CCP feel safer in investing more money into the project that's part of a bigger, growing whole, rather than sinking cash into a dying FPS with declining numbers on a dead system that probably has a nearing expiry on it's "online" functions. |
Xaerael Walkeri
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Posted - 2014.05.04 16:05:00 -
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Gelan Corbaine wrote:One great improvement would be an actual test server that doesn't have to connect to Sony's servers ( Which makes them nervous and is one of our main problems atm . ) They could actually test thier code before hand without having to go through the Long Sony QA. Then its just a matter of patching it to the PC version and QAing it to the all but inevitable Ps4 version since it's basically a PC.
Also the demon of 256 megs will be finally gone !
SISI testing for Legion will be so damn useful. Bugs and exploits happen. I mean, I'm the guy who discovered the original OB exploit where you could rack up 20+ OBs in a single match during the Dust Beta. Imagine if that exploit had been overlooked till after PC had started, and getting neg points became easier?
New stuff without testing/balance periods is terrible, and just causes overpowered/underpowered game environments. |