|
|
| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 0 post(s) |
Bendtner92
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
2228
   |
Posted - 2014.11.25 10:22:00 -
[1] - Quote
There's a reason they threw a rather meaningless number of unique monthly players at us instead of something more relevant (because such a number wouldn't be great to show off).
Also, that 100k daily players statement was indeed questionable, as as you said, it took 18 days to even sell 100k Dropsuit Command skillbooks following a reset.
Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament.
Go Go Power Rangers!
R.I.P MAG.
|
Bendtner92
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
2228
|
Posted - 2014.11.25 11:05:00 -
[2] - Quote
Himiko Kuronaga wrote:PS4 is the only thing that can save this game.
Re-inventing it for Legion is too time consuming and resource intensive. Something CCP has never been good at managing for the long haul. It would take them around 7 years minimum, at the rate they work things out. Hilmar will lay them all off by then, because PS3 Dust will no longer be generating income and they will simply be an unattractive money sink at that point. Just like WoD was.
On the other hand, moving Dust to PS4, the actual existing game that isn't vaporware like WoD and Legion, will continue to generate income and draw in a massive playerbase of PS4 owners who want quite literally anything to play that they can get their hands on. That would give them a launch base to do whatever long term stuff they want to do on PC, as well as a stronger system to try out new things on.
Imagine if they had started work on PS4 last year (or a bit later perhaps) instead of deciding to do Legion. Also considering the lack of (great) games on PS4 at this point.
Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament.
Go Go Power Rangers!
R.I.P MAG.
|
Bendtner92
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
2230
|
Posted - 2014.11.25 18:12:00 -
[3] - Quote
Fox Gaden wrote:It is 300,000 unique PSN accounts.
Source?
Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament.
Go Go Power Rangers!
R.I.P MAG.
|
Bendtner92
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
2230
|
Posted - 2014.11.25 18:49:00 -
[4] - Quote
Fox Gaden wrote:The DEV blog. The meaning of "unique accounts" is very specific. There is not a whole lot of room for misinterpretation.
Devblog wrote:WeGÇÿre very happy to see that our player base remains both stable and active. In fact, we are currently seeing the highest engagement numbers in over a year, averaging around 300.000 Monthly Active (unique) Users over the last few months.
No mention of "accounts" in the devblog. It says "users" which could mean both accounts and characters.
Edit: And when companies publishes numbers like this it's usually just characters unless stated otherwise as that implies a bigger playerbase.
Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament.
Go Go Power Rangers!
R.I.P MAG.
|
Bendtner92
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
2230
|
Posted - 2014.11.25 18:54:00 -
[5] - Quote
CrotchGrab 360 wrote:so you think that porting to ps4 won't also be time consuming and resource intensive? it has been said by the developers that those are the reasons for which not to port dust to ps4.
I don't see how it wouldn't take less time than making a completely new game. Porting to PS4 instead of doing Legion (on PC) likely wouldn't have alienated a good part of the DUST playerbase as well.
Winner of the EU Squad Cup & the closed beta Tester's Tournament.
Go Go Power Rangers!
R.I.P MAG.
|
|
|
| |
|