deezy dabest wrote:Devadander wrote:Companies will not keep a product up that is not profitable. Dust is still up, must be profitable.
In terms of CCP and specifically that assessment of Dust I have to disagree. They kept pumping people and resources in and out of WoD for roughly 10 years even tho there was never a true playable alpha. CCP has proven that they will do what CCP does and Dust is really no different. The only reason Dust is still alive is because they could not afford showing two total failures out of two products that they tried with other products in the pipeline that they were searching for investments for.
Now that they have locked down funding, launched GunJack, and are gearing up to launch Valkyrie they can shut Dust down and say, "We want to shift our focus to VR." without making them self look bad or putting potential funding opportunities at risk. It is all optics at this point which is why they have had no shame in milking Dust while they were forced to keep it around.
Dust going to any other platform is totally in the air at this point since obviously the Shanghai studio has proven very efficient at pumping out simple little mobile games.
I already made my own cardboard. With the weight and the eye strain, its a two hour TOPS novelty. Sure, the high dollar headset will be easier on the eyes. But something about being human makes you want out of it around hour one. Wife loves the videos but can only handle 30-45 mins.
Point being: vr is finally awesome (I remember 90's attempts...) But its not a grind for hours feature.
As for dust just being a flop till they can drop it: They are stuck with dust. You mentioned WoD, which never even made it out the gate, and was in no way related to new Eden. And never made a single isk. Objection: irrelevant. There are more eve players who want dust to succeed than you may think. Not to mention, us active players, and the roughly 500-1000 who lurk forums waiting for news.
Social media has a way of spreading news, be it good or bad..
Pulling the plug on dust at this point will inarguably hurt the bottom line. CCP is in the business of business. I don't see it.
You have your opinion, and I have mine. Neither can be changed, obviously. Mine is based off four years experience in a fortune 500 corporation, three of those in internal resource.
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