Kevall Longstride wrote:Ok.
Nemesis runs on UE4.
As to it taking away time from x project, slowing y project and just buggering up z project altogether I will say this once again so apologies to those who've heard this before.
At Fanfest, on the first day, Nemisis was shown as part of the VR Lab which included other tech demos from CCP's Atlanta, Newcastle and Shanghai studios. There was also some Oculas stuff being shown as well. This is all part of CCP's R&D and part of their switch to VR as they are massive fans of it.
So of course Project Nemesis was immediately blamed by some that choose to look for drama where there is none for the no show of Legion, Dust on PS4 or PC, etc etc....
So that night I was at the charity meal and chating to Hilmar and Rattati and brought up the latest speculation from the forums as to the displacement of resources that Project Nemesis had caused.
Hilmar started to laugh a bit and just said 'it's just three guys messing with a mobile Dev kit on their lunch break! That's the sum amount of time being spent on it so far. What its cost us, I could fund with the money in my wallet right now.' This was also the same conversation that he told us that Dust was now profitable and I told him he should say that. So he did in an interview with Polygon the next day.
Nemisis was shown in rough form, like EVE VR was two years previously, and extensive feedback was asked for it from all the attendees that tried it. There were mounted iPad set up by each tech demo with a questionnaire for people to fill in, including Nemesis.
Now, I'm not telling you to not go digging for every little factoid from linkdin, Chinese websites and what not, that's completely up to you guys. But the theories and speculation these tend to generate is precisely why CCP don't like saying anything speculative until, they know with 100% certainty it's going to happen.
As an example and right now I say to you, this not confirmation of anything that is going on, spoken about or discussed but if any of the Dev's saidas an example we could look at possibly having a port to Linex for Dust, there are many, far too many on these forums for whom possibly means DEFINITELY.
And once it's their head its happening then all hell breaks loose when it doesn't.
And it's because of this kind of thing that's makes the Dev's not want to say or promise anything that know they might not happen for any reason.
Is CCP working on other stuff we don't know about? Almost certainly. But so is, Bethesda, EA, Naughty Dog, Sony, Microsoft and so on.
Now, someone will likely twist what I've just said into some convoluted way of confirming Half Life 3 or something. Doesn't mean they'll be right or even close.
And I'll just end on this one point. Since being on the CPM I've heard many things said in speculation but spoken as if they are facts on theses forums, blogs and podcasts. I can tell, hand on heart that about 95% is completed BS. The remaining 5% might stray close to the truth but the only thing someone has hit right on the nail is what Warlords name might be.
Honestly, I don't think anyone here cares or gives a **** about Nemesis, how much funding it's getting, or how much is being pulled from Dust 514 to make it. I think the only thing that the community cares about, by and large, is what is going to happen five years from now and whether or not we're playing a game that is effectively dead in the water.
Yeah, we get it, CCP doesn't like to communicate. Don't get me wrong, we -TOTALLY- get that and being told "we don't want to talk because #speculation" is a broken record at this point. CCP withdrawing completely is nothing new but that doesn't make the community any less frustrated and it doesn't make the silent treatment any less destructive. No-one likes to be on the receiving end of that and we all know what it is like in some form or another, so it is absolutely confounding as to why CCP pulls that card. Even despite the fact that the community has said, time and time again, that we want better communication.
And while we can't make CCP come out and start actually talking (despite frequent and repeated statements to the press that they love talking to us) we can certainly remind them that, yeah, what you're doing? Ain't privy. It sucks. It hurts the loyal fanbase and in the grand scheme of things the only thing it is really going to accomplish is making the sting that much worse.