Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.21 18:47:00 -
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It has nothing to do with number of players and not much to do with anything like PC > Console or the like. I really don't think CCP every really wanted to do a console game. It is cool, hip, sexy to get all the gaming press like "We are linking a console FPS and a PC MMO together!" but then you actually have to do it. I don't think CCP every stopped to think "can we do this?" I am sure they stopped to say "Can the PS3 handle this?" which they said yes to but to the idea of if they had the ability to make DUST what was promised to be on the PS3? I don't think that was ever asked.
For this game (DUST/Legion/whatever it ends up being called), I do see it drawing more people on the PC. There are probably half a million EVE subscribers. Let's say that it works out to 200,000 people. If it had been on the PC from the start, every one of them would have least made a character and played it. The problem with going on the PS3 for DUST, which is an extremely niche environment, is that the niche that would most enjoy it (people interested in New Eden) is separated from the game. The EVE forums were abuzz with "I would love to play DUST but I don't have a PS3" when it was first announced.
To people uninterested in the New Eden part, the game offered nothing other than a Call of Duty / Battlefield arcade shooter play that is an objectively worse experience than those games. The game play is not as smooth, the graphics are not as polished, the frame rate drops for no reason, massive lag issues, online only, and is not nearly as balanced as those games. That is pretty much the fate of any game that wants to be a COD/BF/WoW clone; "why play the clone when I can play the original that is generally better?"
That isn't a failing of the PS3; that's a failing of CCP to not utilize the unique selling point of the game (New Eden) in a way that would set it apart from COD/BF. Maybe CCP couldn't get DUST to work on the PS3 and maybe PC is the only chance to get DUST as the idea that we all wanted. Now that DUST is crying in the crib with soiled diapers CCP is wishing that it would have just never had us. It doesn't matter really; CCP still screwed up with letting DUST come to full term before just saying "we gotta do it on the PC."
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.22 01:06:00 -
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End is Near wrote:
That's where your WRONG!
Eve players may show an interest 'at first'. There is NO WAY they can maintain both accounts at once. I would NOT be wasting my time on a FREE game when im paying 20 bucks a month.
I find it SOOOOO funny how bad Eve players crack on dust. Yet they are ALL running over here now. Im enjoy protostomping the fk out of em.
You should read their QQ posts on Eve.
'Dust is dumb' 'why am I being killed so quick?' 'waaaaa waaaaa waaaa' LMAO
GG scrubs. Even the other eve players where cracking on them.
People may subscribe to Xbox Live and still play off line. People may have a subscription to World of Warcraft yet still play League of Legends. Hell, someone could have a 15 dollar a month subscription to 'adult websites' but they probably don't spend all days ogling at the website's content. Being subscribed to a monthly game bit doesn't mean that you have to devote your life to it. The games are quite different. The shtick with having the same name might work nicely for many people that like to do gang PvP so they can play a game without having to check every 90 seconds to see if their corp needs them.
Whether or not someone does poorly in this game has nothing to do with being an 'EVE player.' That is like saying "Jon is a terrible healer. What do you expect; he is a chess player." The person may be familiar or unfamiliar with the genre but 'EVE player' really isn't a term that you can use to describe someone.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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