Pete B
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.05.02 11:56:00 -
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I under stand that whining, and sobbing isn't going to change the fate of Dust, and in all honesty, its a dead horse thats been beaten beyond any recognition; running on an aged console, using an inneficient, heavy engine, running on a skeleton crew, and is mostly a pipe dream game taken too far. But through all of it, its a great game, that really, should still keep true to the fanbase that made it.
The reason I feel it flopped boils down to two main reasons;
The link to Eve;
Who, on the PS3, actually plays eve and shooter video games on the playstation, a small minority. What does this mean?
If its a good shooter, than the EvE link will be ignored, and the players who can get a grasp will enjoy it, but the EvE heavy lore will put non EvE players off mostly.
Project Nova is going the right way in this, focusing on being an excellent shooter first, then an EvE linked game. Sure, some lore fanbabys will cry themselves dry at this, but it will attract more players in general, which is always a good thing, a higher playerbase means generally more, and more varied games.
Not saying the EvE linked couldn't work, I'm sure if dust had a larger effect in EvE; troops boarding ships, and holding to ransom, battles between ships, with troops control space craft transporters/heavy battle space craft. Troops carry out contracts that affect EvE players' planets, meaning that EvE have to contract groups, or sing mercs, or even "Public Contracts".
Advertising/Exposure/Saturation;
If Project Nova isn't advertised, its gonna fall under all other Free 2 Play games out there, with the only real exposure being EvE payers.. who already have so much invested in EvE they aren't REALLY gonna spend that much time on Project Nova.
Blacklight retribution, Warframe, Loadout, Paragon, etc, all of these are F2P games, all going on a similar vain, all getting better adverting than dust ever had, and unless they can compete in their advertising, their not gonna get enough exposure in an already saturated market. And guess what, another flop. Not because the game is bad, but bad exposure and advertising.
In my opinion, Project Nova could fair better by being on PS4, PC and XBox, all F2P through their 'excellent shooter' idea first then EvE second, giving them enough exposure, with public advertising, on TV, Billboards, Youtube, and heck, even spotify. With the next gen console being nearly as powerful as PC, with the added bonus of being standard, allowing for better optimization, it will allow for their '60FPS, high end graphics' aim, as well as some map destruction added in to boot. |