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Posted - 2016.08.29 16:34:00 -
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My guess is that Nova hasn't been given the green light yet.
If you can't make the game, but hope maybe in the future it will be green lit, it would be best to keep your mouth shut, try and hold onto the fragments of community that remain, and maybe things will all come together later down the road.
If the situation were reversed and the game was currently green lit but may be shut down in the future, it would probably be best to drop some kind of info, drum up some kind of interest to be able to say "look, we've got a bit of a player base already, let us keep working".
Just my thoughts, but who knows. |
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Posted - 2016.08.29 20:25:00 -
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Ok I've got a rough conspiracy theory-
Rather than create a brand new-ish shooter to hopefully one day tie into EVE, a very old game at this point, CCP has decided to create a brand new EVE. Since Nova is moving to PC, and both games take place in the same universe, CCP will simply create 1 game. |
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Posted - 2016.08.30 20:54:00 -
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Ripley Riley wrote:CCP did get torn to pieces post-legion announcement, that much is true. But, again, even the way they made the legion announcement was an example of exactly how not to do PR/marketing.
Let's not forget the herculean effort to push boosters, aurum and packs on us for months, close to half a year, just before FF14. As well as the 10 year road map, and claims of exciting news about Dust before FF14.
In my opinion this goes well beyond bad PR/Marketing. That's just plain mean spirited, and I don't feel anyone is ever justified in saying "oh well look how everyone acted when FF14 hit" to defend CCPs lack of communication (not saying you did Ripley).
I'm fine with the silence at this point, I just really hope they would tell us if Nova had indeed been canceled or green lit. And if it's neither tell us "we want to do Nova, but there is currently an obstacle preventing it. We will know more in the next X to X months".
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Posted - 2016.08.31 09:45:00 -
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Alena Asakura wrote:The EvE community would be in an uproar
Exactly, they are trying to figure out the best way to drop the bomb.
I realize Nova will be focusing on the basics, but if they were to get a wild hair again and want to take another shot at the combined universe thing I don't think EVE is the game to do it with anymore. It simply can't last forever.
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Posted - 2016.08.31 10:27:00 -
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In all reality though I'm certainly not expecting Nova to ever be tied to EVE, for a lot of reasons, but mainly due to EVEs age. If my research was accurate EVE just turned 13 in May and you figure the absolute best case scenario for Nova would be a full release in 2 years (Pokeys boundless optimism is starting to rub off on me). That leaves you with a game released in 2003 and a game released in 2018 that you now must tie together. Not factoring in the time it would take to iron out Nova enough to begin combining the 2 games.
It just seems far easier to let EVE putter out, even if it takes another 5-10 years, then create a completely new game containing both concepts. I'm no game designer but I would imagine this would be far easier than 2 separate games.
I'm also not knocking EVE. What CCP has done over there is amazing, and without EVE there never would have been a Dust. Good show CCP. |
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Posted - 2016.08.31 16:12:00 -
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Solaire Randash wrote:They should've shut 514 down soon after Legion was announced>.>
I don't know Ripley, I agree with him
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Posted - 2016.08.31 16:25:00 -
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Alena Asakura wrote:
Afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. EvE isn't just another game. It actually can last forever (at least in terms of lifespan of MMORPGs). The only thing that would kill it would be collapse of CCP, and even then, someone will likely buy it (or perhaps the player base itself) and continue its operation for the totality of the foreseeable future.
I understand MMORPGs can last quite along time, but as a business interested in making money CCP would be completely out of their minds to not attempt (or at least discuss) recreating the magic of EVE in a new game at some point. There is no way around the fact that in 10 years EVE will be a dinosaur no matter how stable it still is, on top of the fact that it would not be smart to tie what is suppose to be a AAA shooter (or was suppose to be, at least) to such an old game.
And in the event that CCP did collapse, that would be pretty obvious proof that they should have attempted an EVE 2.0 or whatever. Plus at some point (who knows when) another company will take a shot at doing what EVE does, only newer and better. Whether they would succeed or not, who knows. But that whole saying about not resting on your laurels and what not.
I feel that at this point EVE is a time capsule, albeit a very successful one. |
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