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Posted - 2015.11.18 14:56:00 -
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Vicious Minotaur wrote:People were [mostly] not upset with Legion in and of itself.
They were upset by the manner by which it was announced, the circumstances around the announcement, the severe lack of information about what was going on with DUST, the general lack of communication and the fact that Legion wasn't even greenlit yet.
If CCP had bothered to properly announce Legion and what it entails, lay out clear and consise plans about DUST -> Legion transition, as well as a tentative roadmap (all things that, you know, a competent developer would have done), most people would have been quite happy.
But no. CCP screwed things up badly, and most people reacted badly to it. Understandable in the context of the times...
Other things added fuel to the fire. For example, when Legion was demoed we could see that it was the same buggily-modified engine all over again. The new & old devs were up there on stage crowing about better graphics and trees and did not address the core problems that their implementation of UR3 is riddled with.
What Rouge demoed was very likely infected with the same failings Dust has today, the same failings that earned CCP a crappy metascore for Dust and most certainly would again for the Legion product demoed at FF2014.
I'd say it was the customer-relations cluelessness shown by CCP, coupled with their failure to acknowledge their failings with Dust, coupled with the attitude of many of the devs on the forums coupled with years of beta tester feedback ignored.....
There's more, but it's all spilt milk and bad blood now. The only thing that can redeem that history is if CCP learned their lesson and are willing and capable of delivering a quality product in the future. A product that honors the principles of core FPS mechanics, deep brutal NewEdenesque gameplay, complete in-game systems to support all that, quality player experience(lookin' at you, hand-crafted NPE) and meaningful connections to EVE at all levels of gameplay.
My fear is that we're going to get some cheezily-marketed piece of RMT bullshit - warbarge, daily missions, multiple currencies, yada yada yada....CCP's behind closed doors development approach is going to come back to bite them in the ass.
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