Hehaw Jimbo
Bragian Order
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Posted - 2012.07.29 18:16:00 -
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Honestly, this game has a lot of problems (potential too, but I'm getting less and less optimistic that it will come close to being realized), and the "ITS BETA!" excuse really can't be held onto. The game was already supposed to be out (was announced for spring/summer 2012) , and it plays like an alpha build.
The gunplay is sloppy, newbs/people that don't have time to farm a lot get hardcore stomped due to how much better higher level gear/skills are, vehicle spam is extremely dull. On top of that, most of the promised features (like, any link with EVE whatsoever) is totally non-existent at this point in time, and we STILL don't even have concrete details on how the link is going to work/what it is going to affect. All we have are still vague promises, almost like they don't know how they're going to handle it still.
For a game that should have been out already, this game needs WAY too much work, and with the tame changes between builds so far, I really don't think it is going to happen. I hope they surprise me, but the people still hiding behind "ITS A BETA" are likely going to be in for some serious disappointment at launch. CCP already takes forever to fix the most basic of things in their other game (EVE), with iterations on broken mechanics often taking YEARS to be semi-fixed, and a lot of times they're just bandaids. I'm sorry, but expecting them to pull a complete 180 on this game that's already been in development for years and should be out soon doesn't seem very realistic.
They aren't really comparable, though. EVE has had effectively no competition for what it does (space-based sandbox MMO), is on the PC, and has been funded by a monthly subscription. I have played EVE since the beginning and still do, but I honestly believe if they had any real competition for the first few years, the game never would have survived CCP's long long iteration procress and horrible bugs (google eve boot.ini issue for some lawls).
Dust, on the other hand, is on a single console only (arguably the least popular one), has a crazy amount of competition (esp an unnamed upcoming true MMOFPS sequel...), and its only funding is banking on the game being good enough for people to keep it alive through microtransactions. After the EVE Incarna fiasco that caused tons of layoffs and put World of Darkness on the back burner, I don't think CCP can afford to have the game flop and still keep it alive for years before it gets good, because they have tons of competition that EVE did not. |
Hehaw Jimbo
Bragian Order
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.29 18:31:00 -
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Lurchasaurus wrote:y
CCP does things their way and have been successful at it for YEARS. Dust is going to be so tied into EVE that it CANT flop.
We don't know that. They've been very careful to not give solid details on the links of DUST and EVE, but they have said in the past that they are designing it so that if one fails, the other will not automatically fail. If this is the case, I have a feeling the "eve-dust link" is going to be more of a gimmick than anything. From what they've said it looks like it will involve Eve's PI (Planetary Interaction) which...wasn't exactly a huge success when it was introduced in EVE. Most people I know completely ignore PI as is because it is a boring clickfest that is of questionable worth unless you do it in null, and have a logistics chain that makes getting the product to market actually worthwhile. |