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JJ'S
Krusual Covert Operators
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.04.28 04:47:00 -
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True Adamance wrote:It's a nod to the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones referring to the the 2014 [I think] Fanfest announcement that Dust would not be receiving more large scale iterations by playing on digital user name our own CCP Rouge goes by. Was ultimately seen as a blindside and betrayal by the player base considering we had no prior warning and actions taken by CCP seemed to suggest otherwise.
Oh and.......
Rouge = Red
It was more that CCP Rouge got hired into DUST 514 team... He has an amazing resume working on games... DUST during this time spent like 5-6 months without an Executive producer... After CCP Jjian quit..
During this time DUST 514 went through some rough rough patches...
CCP Rouge got hired... DUST 514 had a rather large community team that kept stringing along the community on how CCP Rouge would give us a mission statement or an update or some kind of lead on where DUST was headed...
5-6 months later Fanfest came and the entire community was Hyped... Gaming sites where hyped.. Gamespot, IGN... All Covering DUST's new content.. As 1.8 just dropped with Racial dropsuits and weapons, Cloaking...
At this time the community only got a brief forum post from CCP Rouge... The Hype was real as the community team let Fanfest be the pinnacle of DUST's future.. And we finally get to see CCP Rouge and hear his thoughts about DUST 514 and the future...
DUST 514 Keynote speech for fanfest.... Everyone tunes in... Tons of DUST players that became CCP fans actually paying to goto Iceland and be at that keynote speech...
CCP Rouge get's on stage and shows CEOPyrex's video he made... Talks about how great the DUSt 514 community is.. How we are everything and without us DUST 514 wouldn't exist...
Then pretty much proceeded to put his two middle fingers up in the air and say... Frack the PS3, Frack console, and Frack DUST 514..... Then pretty much never mentioned DUST 514 again...
Got off stage...
Community exploded... We got a short forum post from him as damage control... Then barely heard anything from CCP for 6 months.
Most of the players pact up and moved on.
The population we largely have in DUST now is a completely new cycled in population... As DUST completely renews 70-80% of it's player base every month. |
JJ'S
Krusual Covert Operators
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.04.28 05:03:00 -
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Sgt Kirk wrote:Breakin Stuff wrote:20 bucks says rouge actually got thrown under the bus by marketing.
I'm trying to envision a game developer with his resume going "Oh yeah, this announcement at FanFest when everyone's hanging at the edge of their seats for DUST news will be a great idea!"
This reeks of "we don't ever get to hear the whole story behind that disaster." It still baffles me to this day how poorly executed that whole event was.
I Just asked my wife if she remembers me near yelling that morning when tuning into the live feed for the keynote speech... She actually gave a **** about the game i was playing and watched the presentation with me... She still is shaking her head about it.
It was like the last thing I expected them to do after just rebuilding the DUST 514 brand for half a year.
It was like watching a 8 year old build a sandcastle all day... Just to go *Frack it*, and kick it in before they put the stick representing the flag on the top.
It leaves one searching for words to explain just how wtf that was. |
JJ'S
Krusual Covert Operators
Minmatar Republic
109
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Posted - 2015.04.28 16:20:00 -
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Kevall Longstride wrote:Breakin would win his bet.
And IWS hit the nail on the head with his post. Fanfest 2014 was a real lesson for CCP and in a break from tradition, one that they learned from.
I spoke to Hilmar a lot over this Fanfest and the whole theme was less of the shiny, nothing that couldn't be delivered by the end of 2015 and nothing about future aspirations. Even this years Eve Fanfest trailer was far more subdued than normal.
Dust actually benefitted from being low key this year. The CPM there had huge amounts of time to discuss the game one on one with the Devs, players came to us directly and had questions answered as much as was able. Lots of Eve players were also curious as to what was happening to Dust. Rattati, Frame And the CPM got a lot of stuff done.
It was a good Fanfest for Dust.
Would of been nice to have atleast a demo area setup for DUST at fanfest... 10 Playstations running and allowing EVE players and game press to jump in and play the game, Maybe an elaborate cardboard cut out...... Developers showing off their project first hand and explaining things.
If anything showed at this year's fanfest for CCP.... It is the passion and innovation with their IP's are gone... If CCP and EVE development doesn't wake up soon... They will be left in the stagnate development stage they have been stuck in for the last 7 years with massively declining revenues...
ANd when new products which focus on innovation and pushing game genre's to new depths... Start splitting EVE's market share further... Using CCP's own methods in which got them to their position while they slacked off and Largely relied on the innovation and ground breaking mechanics installed in the beginnings of the game when there was passion and innovation...
EVE is stuck in the same mode WoW is... All they are adding is new maps and new classes and reskins of armor... EVE is just offering new Wormhole space, New ships based around niche gameplay.. And reskins for the last 5 years... All While HUGE massive mechanics talked about 8 years ago left untouched or even discussed.
POS mechanics being ancient... The entire rework put to the side when the developers quit CCP to move to riot... Player driven Space exploration and player built stargates Allowing sandbox like expansion of the universe.. Reworked Soverignty.. Planets actually mattering in owning space.. Station walking and interriors of space stations and ships, Social spaces so that you can sit down with another EVE player... Show off your Aurum gear.. Outpost revamps... Escalation of what Incursions where even for...
I could go on for a massive wall of text... CCP as the passionate innovative developing studio that are building games to be cool, is largely gone... Not by what words are said, but by simply measuring their actions compared to their words... And when you do this.. They are giant liar's for the last 7 years. |
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