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Posted - 2015.08.03 16:23:00 -
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deezy dabest wrote:LOL
Valkyrie ripped on to mobile. Good to see what CCP Shanghai has been so hard at work on. I am guessing Shanghai since they were the one advertising for an unreal 4 programmer with experience in VR.
If you have no interest in VR you may as well give up on CCP now. From an outside perspective one could easily believe they are putting all of their eggs in the VR basket. I wonder if they realize how many times VR has failed before and that only a niche market of today's consumer really cares about that level of immersion.
CCP's future is in VR, and it should be - a virtual universe is central to what drives CCP's vision.
That future, however, depends on something far more fundamental than the interface: New Eden. If they're moronic enough to forget that basic fact then their future is in selling off IP, technologies, patents etc. when they're forced to close up shop.
New Eden is not lore. Pretty models and yelling 'Abbadon' completely misses the point - New Eden is about dynamic game systems that allow players to create content, about persistence and real geopolitics, about a virtual market worthy of real-world academic study and strategic resources that are more than a trivial & transparent game mechanic.
With all of these game concepts that CCP are exploring, they're forgetting what made them and what puts food on their tables. This is particularly true for Dust: Naming dropsuits with an eye to the lore is well and fine, but also totally irrelevant. New Eden style game dynamics(that does not automatically mean directly influencing EVE, for all the apologist fanboys who will helpfully jump in to explain that to us) are the only thing that give Dust any relevance at all it the gaming world - daily missions and achievements and various currencies/stores do nothing to move the game from 'a curious oddity with a fringe playerbase' to 'a game-changing addition to the shooter genre'.
I'm hugely interested in VR(tho imo AR is already the winner), but CCP's 'charge!' into VR is premature. All the time spent on VR would have been better spend on deepening the reality, dynamics, procedural depth and social tools inherent in the New Eden universe.
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