I mean I'm always pissed so it doesn't count but that would be some grade A bullshit. EVE has been one of the most vocal communities against this game over the years (considering no one else on the planet knows about us), to give them preferential treatment over us would just be another dip in the repeated Tbagging that is DUST CCP.

You're assuming that sign ups at FanFest would be the only way in. Recall that there was a tester population in the original Uprising version of Dust before Replication dropped and EVE players were brought in.

If they announce signups at FanFest, I'm confident it'll be after they've already pulled an initial testing pool from here in order to make sure their product is as polished as possible gameplay-wise before they let the EVE community in.

Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about notification method. I agree completely that the notification method would likely be via emails to the addresses we used to sign up for the game (one used for PSN).

As far as EVE players being given first dibs just because, that's what I think unlikely. More likely they'll set up a site for the game to announce the initial invites same as they did with having a Valkyrie site with basic info long before the game came out.

Again, considering that FanFest is a major event attended by the entire CCP fanbase AND representatives of the Press, bringing Dust 514 players in first under NDA makes the most sense. If they want this new project to do well, they need to make sure the experience for every FanFest attendee is overwhelmingly positive such that they can begin to get word-of-mouth going. As you probably remember, personal accounts of gameplay were a huge element in building hype for EVE: Valkyrie.

It will be available on Steam but there's no way it will be Steam exclusive. After all, not all PC gamers use Steam, and the fact that they'd be forced to do so would drive away potential customers.

The better idea is to make it Steam compatible and sell content packages on Steam, but also to use their own launcher like they do with all their other games.

Just because it was on Steam DOES NOT guarantee that it will be a Steam exclusive. Eve Online is one prime example. It can be accessed via Steam but you don't need a Steam account to get it. You can download straight from CCP via a separate launcher that operates on its own. So CCP does have the power and the experience to develop a new IP for PC with and without Steam if they choose to. That is far more likely to happen than just a Steam Exclusive.

And there is absolutely no evidence so far that shows CCP is making Nova into a Steam Exclusive. The Steam client wasn't even brought up by CCP. It was brought up by Kevall Longstride who is the current member of the CPM and is a regular attendee of Fanfest who also tried out Project Nova. For all we know CCP could just be testing out how Nova can function under Steam and so far it seems pretty stable given the gameplay videos we have seen from the players who tried the game out.

PS: There are not that many servers being managed by CCP. The vast majority of the servers are just Test servers (Singularity, Duality, etc.) and just a single live server for everyone to play sandbox with. Not that hard to distribute updates.

Veteran recognition is something that we've been discussing over Fanfest with CCP and those players that made it over there, which was quite a few as it happens.

There are obviously some technical hurdles that need overcoming. Nova is more than likely going to be on Steam as its distribution method. In fact the demo running at FF was on a Steam client with the server in Frankfurt, not a LAN. So they'll be likely some sign up mechanism from Sony and being able to link it to steam account.

But this is all very early thinking and of course, dependant on Project Nova getting green lit.

3 years(Joined back when the merc pack gave access)

$16,000 invested(what? I believed in the game)

More like scrub captain omega, but more or less(also, kidding about the sixteen grand)