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Posted - 2015.02.11 00:22:00 -
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Not going to quote, too many i wan tto reply to, so i'll do a blanket reply.
1) *flashes his 11 year eve vet badge* (god i wish)
2) I'm not sure what cash grab you are talking about. You don;t pay anything for dust, so OFC they are going to do cash grabs. they have to, you know, make cash. Not sure if you mean a cash grab in eve, cause i have not seen one.
3) Lets play a game of what if shall we? First the setup. At fan fest 2014 CCP made a PR nightmare for themselves, in what is commonly called 'the Rouge Wedding' as we are well aware, ccp showed nothing for Dust, gave all the impresstions it was dead, and showcased legion. This was a huge issue for CCP. As i'm sure they got nailed on the back end with people cancliing there AUR perchuses and getting refunds, but the bad press as well. So with that...
a) Legion devlopment flounders, ccp decides to refcous on dust cause maybe they can save some face. IF legion is dead, and in thsi senario, they announce legion as dead, it will hurt dust, as again people will explode all over the forums and quit playing
a2) If legion is not dead, and still beign worked on, in this scenario it can again, blow up in there faces with yet another PR issue. In this case its lose lose.
b) Legion is not dead, just not ready for show. CCP is still doing things with Dust for *reasons* so CCP decides to just keep things quite, dust is making money, the players who are not trolling the legion forums and playing dust, and in theory having fun. Then why rock the boat?
b2) Legion is not dead, but its in no state to show anything. So CCP starts spilling the beans on things... but thouse things don;t go as planned or come out correctly. They now have another PR issue. This is a lose.
There are still people who wonder where the eve planitary flight from fan fest 04 is. CCP showing thigns that are not done has not been good for them in the past. They are currently walking a think line, between giving out soem info so players stay interested, and shooting Dust in the head before it needs to be. Dust seems to be stablizing form life support, so why would they shoot it again?
Legon needs money to be made, dust makes money. Thus legion gets made. And if its dead? then who cares? if you are having fun in dust them meh, if your not.. then why you posting?
As to the layoffs, this happens when companies kill projects. WoD was not going to be finished, CCP decided to stop wasting money on it, and refocus. What i am seeing, that refocus was a GOOD thing. |
DaReaperPW
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Posted - 2015.02.11 17:43:00 -
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da GAND wrote:Aikuchi Tomaru wrote:Legion is not dead, for a single reason: CCP, like everybody else, knows that the time of the PS3 is coming to an end. Sooner or later they have to move the project to another platform. And with Legion also being supposed to be F2P it's the perfect successor. Even with all the Warbarge stuff they have to port now. So don't worry. But I guess CCP won't say anything about Legion until they decide to abandon Dust. I guess that'll be another year or 2. It's really just a name, both games have the same idea of an fps connected to New Eden with interactions with EVE players. Except Legion is going to start on the PC and Dust 514 started on the console. I'd give it another year before Dust is gone.
I'd go once legion is out, a year before all dust updates stop, then a few more before the dust servers are shut down. |