CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.03.20 21:17:00 -
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 No offense meant to the author of that website article you linked (or to ANY website journalist/critic who thinks they can properly assess/ conclude/ forecast a gameplay innovation that's never been tried before)GǪ butGǪ
It's naysaying.
This game is an EVE-based idea. EVE-based games have always (always?GǪ there's only been ONE, Celesta! ) been a cult-following, not a grand stellar game that becomes a giant in the market for years to come.
EVE-Online is a quirky game that has built a committed band of followers internationallyGǪ. but is just a humble-size gaming group compared to what companies consider "applauded success".
It's followers and repeat addicts make it last so many years. Not it's actual numbers (50% hardcore capsuleers + 50% constantly leaving new players, from what Capsuleers experinced through the years).
Dust was (still is) a very weird-principled game idea that had to be "sold" to its console manufacturer Sony, and has to be regularly re-sold to them each time CCP wants to add a new mechanic or gameplay content. With that kind of "3rd-party arranger" you have to keep requesting assistance and data from, it's no wonder the Dust idea feels demoralized and ready to retreat to PC one year, then turns around and re-convinces the creators another year, etc, etc.
Unless the authors of these articles, (and we the PS3 players who swallow the articles) are EVE-Online Capsuleers, none of us can say whether EVE went through this IDENTICAL evolution during its first 5 years. (I've recently heard that our player base is about 50% hardcore Dusters + 50% new players who are constantly leaving/replaced----sounds familiar to...).
Don't give too much thumbs up to any writer's fight-doctor reports on Dust. I know they mean well ( ), but literally, LITERALLY, a game like this has never been tried before.
Lots of writers implied this game was too danged weird and too non-traditional to ever last 8 months.
I had PS3 Dusters telling me "Celesta, you do realize we will never have trading or PC with EVE in this game---you do realize that, right? And, the player base is losing numbers by 1000 every month since they mentioned Legion, right Celesta? And by January 2015, we're all going to be playing this game on PC, cuz scrap-salvage, asset-resale are too far beyond a PS3's capability, you do know that, right Celesta?"
 GǪ.if you insist, sure.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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