Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2015.03.25 11:32:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:Haerr wrote:::puts on tinfoil hat::
Dust VR confirmed... They've tried VR FPS. It makes players throw up. You need the cockpit as a point of reference for the movement to work without motion sickness happening in a fast paced game. Was talking to the Valkyrie Dev's about that.
Can confirm on the nausea bit for FPS. For Oculus Rift, "man in machine" games like Valkyrie and racing games will be the bread and butter. It makes sense to be going in a direction you are not facing when in a car or mech-warrior. In a FPS like Valley of the Wind, it is impressive but causes sickness.
But on the original topic:
Dennie, your support and passion for both of CCP's products is obvious and commendable. I am glad that you are on the CPM for that reason. DUST and EVE Uni are the best institutions in their respective games. However, I feel that there is a point being missed about this FanFest.
Yes it is nice not to have over the top hyperbole. Looking to the fact that CCP has been more honest saying things like "we don't know how a platform transfer can happen" and just them having no idea where to go with DUST (or at least where it might go), it is shocking that a follow up to DUST would have been announced a year ago. However, there is a fine line between "only saying what we can deliver" and "I ain't tellin' you nothin' 'bout s***." Legion is out of the bag. Why has it taken one year for CCP to say "we are working on it; we don't know what we want to do yet" rather than this fan dance, winking at the possibility of what might be?
I heard you talk about the Rouge Wedding last year, how you were just shocked that this was allowed to happen as a Public Relations disaster so I am certain you can see the dilemma that we have as a community. "CCP isn't talking to us at all." *several months later at EVE Vegas* "A dialogue between player and company is very important to us." (I know I bring this up a bunch but I am 80% sure I was talking to Geddis and asked him about DUST/Legion when I didn't know who he was and he said something along the lines of "not much to say at the moment." *grumble grumble*)
*several, several months later*
"Welcome to FanFest! Just so you know, we didn't want to over hype anything this year, which is why we have not said anything about DUST or Legion and have been fairly reserved in everything else."
There is a chasm of a difference between the doctor walking in after grandpa's hip surgery and saying "he'll be dancing and running and jumping and flying and making sweet, sweet love like he 19 again in just a few days!" and the surgeon shrugging and saying "nothing to report." It is one thing to not want to give false hope to the family, it is another to be so coy and quiet that the family has to keep asking "Is grandpa even alive?"
"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 - 2015.03.26 10:03:00 -
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Dennie, the reason why people are bringing it up is because it is the easiest analogy for our emotions:
"Hey guy, we can't make DUST what it was meant to be so here is Legion." Radio silence. Yes, Legion announcement was bungled bad but the fact that Rouge stood there and announced "we cannot make DUST what we wanted it to be on the PS3" has happened.
A few months to FanFest, we hear that DUST won't have anything. But on the opening day of FanFest, we hear that there is a new Project being worked on. It probably didn't take much resources from DUST and I will believe you completely. However, it is the perfect analogy for how the community feels we are being treated by CCP; we just aren't new or sexy so something else has to be worked on. Whether or not that is accurate doesn't matter as it is the impression that the community has: "CCP doesn't care about DUST people."
I am not sure if it is rude to call you Dennie so let me know if you prefer a different name as I know you as Dennie Fleetfoot.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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