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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.03.17 06:53:00 -
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Lupus Wolf wrote:Fix broken mechanics + advertising
This.
So many people know what EVE is even if they do not play it. You can usually get people to go "Oh, EVE. That's that spaceship game right?" If I tell people "I like DUST 514" they will look at me strangely because they never heard of it. I have never seen a DUST advertisement like I have with EVE. The Escapist used to have a fair amount of EVE ads, and they still do occasionally. DUST, though? Nope, nothing. Not even when it first launched.
When you do a YouTube search for "DUST 514", the most watched video is the Fanfest cinematic trailer from 2012 with 916,505 views. Do EVE Online and the third highest is the "This is EVE" - Uncensored that was put up 3 months ago. It sits at 1,977,821. Everyone knows that one because it shows that the game isn't really about spaceships but about what those spaceships mean to people and what they go about doing with those spaceships. It is a great trailer and exists there to make you want to buy into the product.
But DUST never got that. I wouldn't be surprised if "H+Šttuspil" got more marketing attention than DUST 514.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.03.17 08:31:00 -
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Justicar Karnellia wrote: Throwing advertising money at a bad game with a dwindling playerbase on a last-gen platform would be a colossal mistake. They've made a lot of mistakes with this game, but I can guarantee you they are clever enough to at least avoid that one.
Aye. I wasn't stating that it would still work but it is what needed to happen. Well, that and the game not being released in a terrible state.
One of the benefits of making EVE: Legion rather than "DUST 514 on the PC/PS4" is that it is a rebranding.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.03.17 09:33:00 -
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Ydubbs81 RND wrote:
Porting Dust to ps4 is the only way to get a large influx of new players.
The problem is "how many people would move from the PS3 to the PS4?" It might just split the community even more. The people that would be most interested in playing would be EVE players based on them already having interest in the EVE universe. Logically, the PC would make more sense.
Regardless, there are a whole hell of a lot more PS3's out there than PS4's. A Google search states that it is 10 million PS4's (as of 1/5/15) and 70 million PS3's (as of 11/16/12). People aren't playing DUST because it isn't on the newest system; people aren't playing DUST because the community is split, the game is not worth slogging through the crap in order to find the diamond, and the game is not well known.
Dunno. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some nugget of information out of FanFest. But the last two FanFests and the last two EVE Vegas's have been a load of misinformation so the record is looking pretty strong...
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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