DUST Search - So... is Project Nova dead?

One Eyed King wrote:

And how long was Red Dead Redemption 2 in development before they announced? Development cycles are quite long, around 5 years give or take, especially for Take 2 game, and they don't announce development as soon as they start...

Take Fallout 4 for instance. The development for that game started immediately after Fallout 3, albeit with a staff of only one or two people at first. Just because they didn't announce the game until a few months prior to launch doesn't mean it didn't exist.

Nova has been in development for about a year now, and given that it was announced just a few months after development had started compared with other gaming announcements, that seems rather open compared to the announcement timelines of other companies.

It just seems to me there are a lot of whiny entitled gamers out there. If games like NMS and Star Citizen announce early, when things don't go exactly as gamers speculate (and they never do) then gamers b*tch and moan about lies and vaporware. If nothing is said at all, they b*tch about the same thing.

For Pete's sake stop being little b*tches.


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Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit 3029	Posted - 2016.11.26 18:22:00 - [1] - Quote We haven't heard a single thing about the game since it was announced at Fanfest. And CCP is only saying "We're still working on it!" and so on... all of that is eerie similar to how they handled things with Legion: Announcement. After that "We are working on it!" but no new information anymore and they just said Legion was done when they announced Nova. Valkyrie on the other hand... announced in 2013 as Eve VR: https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vr-an-experiment-in-bringing-virtual-reality-to-the-eve-universe/ And not even 3 months later it was renamed to "Eve: Valkyrie" and announced to be an Oculus Launch title, telling everybody "Yes, it will be released!" http://www.roadtovr.com/eve-valkyrie-eve-vr-oculus-rift-support-gamescom-2013/ And I seriously don't get why. Unlike Nova Valkyrie has an extremely small target group already, which is only people owning a VR headset. On top of that it is a 60 dollar title with gameplay like a F2P game like World of Warships and less content. How can that make money for CCP? Nova on the other hand got good feedback, would be a normal PC game and probably F2P with Microtransactions. Definitely has more appeal and will pull in more players than Valkyrie, due to it not requiring very expensive hardware. Yet we get not a single detail, no mentioning of it, no announcement about it having passed some new hurdle. No mentioning of when we can get to play it or anything at all. And it's been what... 8 months since it was announced? So well. It's been half a year since Dust was shut down and even longer since we last heard from Nova. I actually don't have much hope anymore to ever see a Shooter in the Eve Universe. Sign up for Caldari FW and defeat the evil Gallente Overlords!
Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit 3029	Posted - 2016.11.26 20:33:00 - [2] - Quote One Eyed King wrote: In that case the next GTA must not exist because they don't talk about it. The difference being that we know how new Projects are handled at CCP, as they told us. And it is just worrying how Valkyrie became a full fledged product in a matter of months, but for Nova we get nothing at all... which probably means it is still not green lit by the higher ups and still just a Project which might or might not come out. And Legion wasn't officially cancelled either. They presented it. Never talked about it and suddenly they stopped and announced Nova. They never directly told us that Legion was cancelled. Just that Nova is something different. Sign up for Caldari FW and defeat the evil Gallente Overlords!
Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit 3032	Posted - 2016.11.27 16:25:00 - [3] - Quote One Eyed King wrote: And how long was Red Dead Redemption 2 in development before they announced? Development cycles are quite long, around 5 years give or take, especially for Take 2 game, and they don't announce development as soon as they start... Take Fallout 4 for instance. The development for that game started immediately after Fallout 3, albeit with a staff of only one or two people at first. Just because they didn't announce the game until a few months prior to launch doesn't mean it didn't exist. Nova has been in development for about a year now, and given that it was announced just a few months after development had started compared with other gaming announcements, that seems rather open compared to the announcement timelines of other companies. It just seems to me there are a lot of whiny entitled gamers out there. If games like NMS and Star Citizen announce early, when things don't go exactly as gamers speculate (and they never do) then gamers btch and moan about lies and vaporware. If nothing is said at all, they btch about the same thing. For Pete's sake stop being little b*tches. Unlike Nova, games like GTA and RDR used an inhouse built engine. Developing that engine takes a lot of time. Nova is running on the Unreal Engine 4. So most of the stuff is already done. In addition to that they already had the assets from Dust and... we already saw a working version of the game. When other games are at a point where the devs can show something... they do. Just to get people interested. With Nova we get nothing at all. With Nova they could easily just show a new map they made, or some new weapons. Or maybe they made changes to the progression. Heck: It's been 8 months and they apparently have a team working full time on that thing. So why the extreme secrecy? Sign up for Caldari FW and defeat the evil Gallente Overlords!
Aikuchi Tomaru Subdreddit 3035	Posted - 2016.11.29 19:57:00 - [4] - Quote One Eyed King wrote: No one is saying it is a sure thing. We are simply saying that it exists. Its just really annoying when people, in spite of all evidence, start saying the game is "dead" or doesn't exist just because they don't hear what they want, where they want it, and when they want it. I am not saying it's dead... I just think the current circumstances are WAY TOO similar to other canned CCP projects. Like World of Darkness or Legion. The non canned projects... they get exposure: Valkyrie got regular new updates, Gunjack did too, even Gunjack 2 already has a webpage. With these projects you knew something was being developed and that you will see something. Nova was already absent from Eve Vegas. And all we hear all the time is "We're working on it" Ok. I don't want to say they are lying... but the secrecy probably also means that the game is still only a Project and not greenlit and can be canned any moment. And with them being in that state for so long, compared to their other projects, it makes it seem like the game getting cancelled is imminent and I don't think they would even announce the project being canned, as they didn't announce the game coming out in the first place. I feel like CCP is doing what so many people in the dating scene think is so cool: Ghosting. If the project doesn't turn out, just don't talk about it and let people wait. With so little information I would actually already be content with them telling us "Should Nova be cancelled, we will tell you" Because it kinda sucks waiting for Project which might never happen. Because I seriously want it to happen. Sign up for Caldari FW and defeat the evil Gallente Overlords!