DaReaperPW
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Posted - 2014.05.18 04:20:00 -
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Himiko Kuronaga wrote:CCP Saberwing wrote:Himiko Kuronaga wrote:I'm aware that Dust ran into problems because poor optimization plus terrible hardware.
But this is effectively trading one set of problems for another. I don't think there's any particular shortage of players that would like to play an FPS on the PC...so I wouldn't consider that a problem per se. So.... why did you put Dust on consoles in the first place then? I seem to recall this exact argument being made by your company a few years back, and not me. The position seems to be reversed now. I mean there was the cannibalizing argument as well, but most people just ignored that because we assumed it was just a supporting argument that realistically held no water, and... it kinda seems we were right as apparently CCP is now offering three products on PC instead of one.
They put it on console because they had it in there head to 'have eve everywhere' They were also going to do mobile, the tv show, vita, ps4, etc.
What i believe happened is three fold, as i don;t work for CCP and have no info past the public finance stuff on the web, this is a random guess.
1) They got less numbers then then had thought they would get for Dust, both in player count and in Rev. (If you look at the public finances however, you see that CCP actually made 10m more last year, then in 2012... so who knows what % of that was dust and what % was eve and other stuff sold [collectors edition etc])
2) They showed off eve VR, and a part of me actually thinks they were going to make it a game anyway, but i think they wanted to see how we would react. Once they started work on Valk, they saw that they could do things much easier on the pc. And changed focus. If they had tow titles on the pc.. why have one on a separate platform. If they could make it for pc, and combine everything into 1 log in, patches network ETC, if everything is on TQ it would make development cheaper, as they can combine the work for all three, and have cross over work done.
3) With another game coming, that has alot of people frothing at the mouth to a tune of $43m (to date) i think ccp got a little scared, and decided the best way to complete is to go pc.
All of this is a shot in the dark however, but the likest is they saw that if they combined everything, they could save money. This would also be why they killed WoD. Why make a totally separate world you have to support if you can focus and make your current one bigger and better. And it makes it easier for someone who picked up valk, or legion, or eve, to try one of the other two products. |