Beast Beastlington wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:I'm sorry but you are wrong to try to suggest making DUST into just another COD. Games that do that are the very reason why I don't play any other cookie cutter game that tries to be cod. DUST is not meant to be a cookie cutter game. It is meant to break the traditional mold of first person shooters and create a new competitive game that will usher in a new era of gaming.
Unreal Tournament is a clear example. It was a ground breaking game that later became the gold standard that other games like cod will be based on. Eve alone is achieving something similar as guild wars 2 is now basing its in game economic model on that of Eve online. DUST has the potential to usher in something new that other shooters failed to achieve.
Making DUST into a cookie cutter game is not ground breaking.
We're not talking about making Dust into anything. We're talking about LEARNING about what makes those 3 or 4 top tier games the ones people play night after night. We're talking about accessibility, so the servers are full and CCP make a huge profit. We're talking about having top level gun play. We're talking about having a brilliantly balanced, tactical, rewarding game that is fun and has epic moments.
Stop thinking that we want another CoD. We don't. I don't like CoD but I'm not pretentious enough to think I'm smarter than people who play those games and I'm certainly not pretentious enough to think that at it's core, Dust is any more complicated.
Oh look! Someone who truly does NOT get it quoting someone who does.
DUST is not an FPS. DUST is not an MMO. We should all grieve that they chose to call it the sum of the two.
I believe CCP may not be trying to target every PSN member with DUST and they may not be targeting every FPS player on PSN with DUST. There are a LOT of those. Big market compared with EVE.
I wonder if the more realistic target market is the portion of the PSN FPS market that is 25-35 and looking for the next big thing. That might be a more realistic target market size.
But the cool thing about this business plan is the first and last word in business: Location Location Location
They are opening shop on top of the platform that hosts the whole PSN FPS market. As that big bunch ages they will have had exposure to "DUST", that cool but kinda complex and deep game that's been there while they've been playing CoD, BF3,XQM and whatnot.
If DUST can get a fair start with a moderate sustainable base it will be positioned to have ready access to the incoming player base.
Vikings takeover the world.