Years ago we had a fanfest video showing Dust 514 mercs defending a space station. They had the right idea, but it was just a promotional video. Still, I thought for sure CCP would be the first to introduce boarding parties to alliance warfare or anything more than FW (which has always been a minor part of Eve Online - not really related to 0.0 or major alliances or major resources or major economic impacts). I thought Star Citizen would light a fire under CCP's ass, but so far the new things look like arcade games. I'm starting to think CCP has completely backed down after WIS failed, and never plan on unlocking the space apartments. I'll be trying out the Star Marine alpha as soon as they release it.

Not that it's any of your collective concern, but I am in Iceland going to my brothers wedding and to my other brother's newborn baptism, but please keep tinfoiling, it pleases me.

This. Not news. This was said at Fanfest this year.



If anything, Gunjack is a good thing for DUST players. For one, Shanghai is a lot more than just DUST, and several benefits to DUST can come through sharing resources. You might've noticed in the Biomassed interview, AquarHEAD mentioned he has worked on multiple projects. We potentially get access to more dev resources since CCP is able to have staff there to do more than just one thing.

This is the kind of half ass excuses CCP has been feeding our CPM for a long time now.

"Don't worry, other projects don't effect Dust!" "And if it did - it's positive!" .... ..... ....

I don't know what crack you people are smoking, but in the development industry, it's usually considered a bad thing for your development team to be cut up by different projects. The 'resources' you speak of are already available - and is being used on a different project, and the material that comes from that project sometimes' benefits other games.

Instead of more staff for Dust's development and porting - you're putting staff into other projects. more RnD costs, more development costs, and when the project nears completion and list of other costs pop up. All of which could of been put into improving existing games, 3 in total if you include Valkyrie. Now they have a fourth, before they even grant Dust a ******* future.

all that i'm actually seeing is CCP actively showing Dust players how little they honestly care. We get word of projects that mean the opposite of a positive effect around here - but nothing, not a ******* word, if we have a future.

and no, overworking your staff is EXACTLY the reason Dust's code is the pathetic shape it's in - stop poorly using your staff CCP. Concentrate on one issue at a ******* time. Or at the very ******* least stop making new projects and claiming it's helping Dust when it means it's putting more pressure on developers - because i'm VERY positive that the Dust developers aren't the happiest of people.

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When you release a promised triple A title game coded for the PS3 while developing another title for a different platform and doing everything you describe above lemme know. Didn't realize we had such experienced posters working on such projects?

and your experience is where?

I'm arguing that your points are short-sited and based on assumption and unrealistic expectations that R&D can't happen in parallel to long-term goals. Nothing more. Can it cause problems? You betcha! Does it by definition of existence do so? No.

When you release a promised triple A title game coded for the PS3 while developing another title for a different platform and doing everything you describe above lemme know. Didn't realize we had such experienced posters working on such projects?

That's generally why you schedule school around your schedule to not overwhelm yourself.... Unless you think high school material all at once is difficult enough to need breaks? College level material, you wouldn't want to overwhelm yourself.

But back to your point - it stands to say that Dust's problem come from the coding itself and CCP's inability to deal with it, thus reoccuring issues unrelated to frame rate.

This is easily due to mismanagement of personel by CCP side, marked clearer by how many developers have come and go from this project - and it's very easy to start making assumptions from there, as they're likely as not.

I think that's fair, and tbo, had you written that to begin with I probably wouldn't have bothered. Again, though, my overall points are that 1) R&D and dumb luck can lead to some cool stuff that CAN (or cannot) give a much needed boost to esteem, pride, financing, marketing, bragging rights, wtfever; and 2) as your own post stated near the end, your creating causality through assumption. None of us know what the cause-effect relationships are. Shoddy code? Yeah sure, alright. There is a history there full of context that Ratman and current devs have been un-knotting. But that's not the end-all be-all of what may make or break a company or a company's development goal. Neither of us have thorough insight to CCP and their goals. Your arguments are based on your own desired goals for dust. understandable, I have my own and probably agree with you more than not. But going off on half-baked assumptions is silly.

I don't have to be a developer of a AAA title to understand basic decision-making, when to invest, when to back off, when to split differences, or when to compromise, or the subtle intricacies that may lead one to make such decisions over others. I don't know what CCP is doing, but I know enough about common sense to figure that there are reasons more than what I see being argued here so often. Hey, maybe I'm wrong? But I have just as much proof for my stance as you do---which isn't much at all for either of us.

it's goal vs promises made. CCP is ever expansive on there promises, but they very rarely deliver. If they thought more like me we'd have more delivery and less promises.

But you're ultimately right, it's just my accusation and opinion. 4 years of this game, i probably have too many.

Really interesting analysis. Could you go into a bit more detail about your experiences with the Gear VR vs. the Rift (more about the platforms than the games). Are you considering buying the Samsung Gear VR? what about the Rift? Why/ why not? When you played Valkyrie was it running on a PC or a PS4? The article mentioned that current gen consoles would struggle to create a good experience. Do you agree?