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R F Gyro wrote:

Glyd Path wrote:

First the current EP stated in one of his first interviews with the press on his appointment quit clearly, "there is no piece of paper saying we have to stay anywhere". Which is exactly what has been known for over a year.

Sony paid nothing to CCP. They were simply more open than the competition to having a F2P game on their console and allowed CCP to enjoy a faster refresh cycle and limited their store purchases to AUR and various packages. Nothing about exclusive was forced on either company.

Personally I always thought that particular statement was probably a masterpiece of misinformation. My guess is that there is a written agreement that says they have to be PS3 exclusive for 12 months, but can then move to other platforms. So, no, they don't have to stay on PS3 forever. I've got no evidence for this, of course.

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The criticism regarding graphics over game play first rose up during Uprising. Better graphics and the game was worse, much, much worse. It was essentially a newly released completely broken game. But the textures were more detailed and the art had been improved. Which was nice but rankled many when Chromosome worked much better and was closer to a finished product that Uprising has managed to get to even today. Nearly a year later and bugs that were introduced in 1.0 are still in the game. Each new release introduced new bugs and many of them were ever eliminated. Most were not even acknowledged.

So criticism or simple observation, the choice in words probably is tied to whether you though Chromosome was a reasonable starting point. And that might be further adjusted if you believe that immersion breaking texture pop in with grass that grows as you get closer is a good thing or not.

For me, almost everything about Uprising is worse. At least before we had the hope of a future game.

And now, we are all dust.

The problems you describe are, imho, due to a dysfunctional software development organisation rather than a focus on graphics over gameplay. CCP would clearly have loved to have better gameplay, better graphics and more content. As it was they focussed their Dust developers for months on core gameplay, with only minor graphics enhancements.

There's simply no way that Uprising 1.1 to 1.8 can be described as "graphics over gameplay". I could understand "failed attempt to concentrating on gameplay" if that is your belief, but certainly not overfocus on graphics.


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Tech Ohm Eaven L.O.T.I.S. D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 1683	Posted - 2014.05.08 00:36:00 - [1] - Quote CCP Logibro wrote: Leanna Boghin wrote: More about graphics and how the game looks than about how it plays? I think its safe to say with what you have showed us about Legion and what we have seen on Dust 514 that you care nothing about the game mechanics and overall balance of the game. Sure it looks pretty and shiny but do you really think a player thats fighting against 12 enemy soldiers is really going to stop and take a look at the scenery around them? If you actually do go through with Legion (the generic version fo Dust) I would advise you to spend more time on the overall play of the game rather than the shiny garbage (that includes trees no one cares about the trees). What we're shown so far is just the graphics because the gameplay changes are still either design documents on the wiki or ideas being hammered out in someone's head. It's early days yet, and while the Game Designers work on their designs, the tech guys can work on the game engine and graphics which is a bit easier to immediately show off. Remember, what you saw was a prototype. Same mistakes being repeated. Game development being done in China has a 12 flip on working sleeping hours with respect to other CCP areas. I.e. a proposed China bug fix needed a CCP EVE question response session but alas daytime in China is night time in other places and thus the bugs were not fixed. Same lack of communication prevalent in where art teams , level design teams, engine codeing teams do not interact with each other. Same problems hireing in China needing fluent Manadarin being a constraint to hireing most talent. Change the studio from China to Canada or Mexico (Cancun, Ixtapa, etc.) since a lot of U.S. southern folks speak spanish and have no problem stareing at scantily clad bikini babes at a Cancun, Ixtapa beaches after work. Avoids the month or two of nothing done due to Chinese holidays and in fact its now cheaper to outsource from a tourist destination in Mexico than it is to do in China...i.e. IT work , hospitals, artwork, etc. ORGANIZE your feedback forums into relevant area specific subforums. F U C K Legion. Planetside 2 , Destiny, Watchdogs, Division, Witcher, Order on PS4 Dust Deserters Alliance
Tech Ohm Eaven L.O.T.I.S. D.E.F.I.A.N.C.E 1689	Posted - 2014.05.08 12:33:00 - [2] - Quote R F Gyro wrote: Glyd Path wrote: First the current EP stated in one of his first interviews with the press on his appointment quit clearly, "there is no piece of paper saying we have to stay anywhere". Which is exactly what has been known for over a year. Sony paid nothing to CCP. They were simply more open than the competition to having a F2P game on their console and allowed CCP to enjoy a faster refresh cycle and limited their store purchases to AUR and various packages. Nothing about exclusive was forced on either company. Personally I always thought that particular statement was probably a masterpiece of misinformation. My guess is that there is a written agreement that says they have to be PS3 exclusive for 12 months, but can then move to other platforms. So, no, they don't have to stay on PS3 forever. I've got no evidence for this, of course. Quote: The criticism regarding graphics over game play first rose up during Uprising. Better graphics and the game was worse, much, much worse. It was essentially a newly released completely broken game. But the textures were more detailed and the art had been improved. Which was nice but rankled many when Chromosome worked much better and was closer to a finished product that Uprising has managed to get to even today. Nearly a year later and bugs that were introduced in 1.0 are still in the game. Each new release introduced new bugs and many of them were ever eliminated. Most were not even acknowledged. So criticism or simple observation, the choice in words probably is tied to whether you though Chromosome was a reasonable starting point. And that might be further adjusted if you believe that immersion breaking texture pop in with grass that grows as you get closer is a good thing or not. For me, almost everything about Uprising is worse. At least before we had the hope of a future game. And now, we are all dust. The problems you describe are, imho, due to a dysfunctional software development organisation rather than a focus on graphics over gameplay. CCP would clearly have loved to have better gameplay, better graphics and more content. As it was they focussed their Dust developers for months on core gameplay, with only minor graphics enhancements. There's simply no way that Uprising 1.1 to 1.8 can be described as "graphics over gameplay". I could understand "failed attempt to concentrating on gameplay" if that is your belief, but certainly not overfocus on graphics. Hell NO!! We went from player focused 24 versus 24 build game play first. To make it SHINEZ 16 versus 16 until the game died. F U C K Legion. Planetside 2 , Destiny, Watchdogs, Division, Witcher, Order on PS4 Dust Deserters Alliance