DUST Search - for all the guys complaining about the gunplay

Veigar Mordekaiser wrote:

Well, I hate to be "that guy" but Dust has been in development since 2009 -at least-, which would mean that this is it's third year of development and testing. More likely however, is that it has been in development since 2007 or 2008, in which case this would be its fourth or fifth year of development and testing. So your argument that Dust has only been in testing for a few months vs CoD which has had over a decade, is slightly skewed, and quite invalid really.

However, the same is true for CoD, it was probably in development for two-to-four years before launch, meaning Black Ops 2 will be around it's 12th or 13th year. So your argument should be Dust has only had five years of development and testing, where as CoD has had just over a decade, more than doubling the time that Dust has been around.

This argument is still valid however, as CoD took -three years- after its initial launch to finally have a decent feel about it, and really make it's name popular, meaning that Dust still has hope, quite a lot at that. So long as CCP keeps themselves devoted to their players, and never shelves Dust 514, it will grow, and it will gain a following, just like EVE has. There will always be people looking for a deeper experience, and Dust will provide that.


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Jean-Henri 30	Posted - 2012.08.24 06:37:00 - [1] - Quote Veigar Mordekaiser wrote: Well, I hate to be "that guy" but Dust has been in development since 2009 -at least-, which would mean that this is it's third year of development and testing. More likely however, is that it has been in development since 2007 or 2008, in which case this would be its fourth or fifth year of development and testing. So your argument that Dust has only been in testing for a few months vs CoD which has had over a decade, is slightly skewed, and quite invalid really. However, the same is true for CoD, it was probably in development for two-to-four years before launch, meaning Black Ops 2 will be around it's 12th or 13th year. So your argument should be Dust has only had five years of development and testing, where as CoD has had just over a decade, more than doubling the time that Dust has been around. This argument is still valid however, as CoD took -three years- after its initial launch to finally have a decent feel about it, and really make it's name popular, meaning that Dust still has hope, quite a lot at that. So long as CCP keeps themselves devoted to their players, and never shelves Dust 514, it will grow, and it will gain a following, just like EVE has. There will always be people looking for a deeper experience, and Dust will provide that. when you talk about development and testing, you seem to think they are the same thing. Development can be people sitting around a table discussing aims and goals, an artist creating rough drafts for assets, and rudimentary map design to feed to the think tank. The first line of code might not be written for many many months or years. Testing begins once systems have been designed and coded. First run games will be nothing more then testing the various engines that will hopefully oneday run the game. Often Design, systems development and testing will all be going at once, requiring many rewrites. We are now at the BETA stage. UI might get tweaked, basic gameplay will not. Systems will be tested,data collected. If this was still an Alpha, then you could expect daily or weekly builds. But thisis a BETA... so builds will get released when they are ready, and each build won't be issued merely because the CEO decided the map should be purple. Each build should be focused on streamlining systems and tuning the engine. TLDR: .. also known as "hurrr durrr" When the BETA has reached the stage of ironing out wrinkles and exterminating bugs, is when the BETA has reached the stage of ironing out wrinkles and exterminating bugs.