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Dr Debo Galaxy wrote:

From what I understand this is more of another gateway into the New Eden Galaxy. So EvE is the money maker and this is just playing around money. As I understand it this game could lose money and they would still be ahead. Eve started out with a very small development team and has grown in members every year. I beleive even WOW can't say this. THey have a small investor base, so they are not pumping money out to them, and (from what I've heard) putting the money back into the company. Also they are in beta and selling products in a free game.

I was also thinking the other day this is a free to play game but you could look at it like a 50 cent a month game. It costs 50 cents for a UVT which I feel most people can justify buying, which will add up. Then you factor in all the people who want this vanity suit or that, this game could be very profitable for CCP. Also there adverts are good to help get mor people in, to then pay more money for a game that isn't even released yet. And as I said it basically has EvE money paying for it.


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Volgair Tritan-Industries Legacy Rising 207	Posted - 2013.03.07 23:36:00 - [1] - Quote I will start by saying I am nothing short of a CCP fan boy, however the current marketing practices has me more then a little concerned. Dust is good, its certainly better then 90% of the other games in this market. What separates Dust from every other product in the top 10% of the market is what the Dust DEV's and CCP have said will be. It is not yet at Peter Molyneux levels of exaggeration but not far off. Right now we are plagued by clumsy menus, broken mail system, server lag, video chug, sticky hills, limited and frankly overplayed game modes. The one that saddens me the most, granted the aforementioned are worse, but this is IMO. Only a small fraction of the games projected release content is available for play. Now on to the reason i titled the thread the way I did, it's because I am seeing more and more dust related adverts. That's fine, I can get behind bringing more people to Dust, but not just yet. Dust is still a BETA, and a rough one at that. The people that have been here since last April know that. New players coming in from a random banner add are not generally so accepting of that idea, and are being enticed on some what a false pretense. I am of the opinion that CCP should save its advert money for a more polished product. The more people that see this game as it is, opens a potential for future player's that are unwilling to give the game a second chance. Not to mention the general community opinion degradation, I want nothing more then Dust to succeed, but it seems like the marketing team is putting the cart before the horse.
Volgair Tritan-Industries Legacy Rising 214	Posted - 2013.03.08 09:36:00 - [2] - Quote Dr Debo Galaxy wrote: From what I understand this is more of another gateway into the New Eden Galaxy. So EvE is the money maker and this is just playing around money. As I understand it this game could lose money and they would still be ahead. Eve started out with a very small development team and has grown in members every year. I beleive even WOW can't say this. THey have a small investor base, so they are not pumping money out to them, and (from what I've heard) putting the money back into the company. Also they are in beta and selling products in a free game. I was also thinking the other day this is a free to play game but you could look at it like a 50 cent a month game. It costs 50 cents for a UVT which I feel most people can justify buying, which will add up. Then you factor in all the people who want this vanity suit or that, this game could be very profitable for CCP. Also there adverts are good to help get mor people in, to then pay more money for a game that isn't even released yet. And as I said it basically has EvE money paying for it. CCP has invested a lot into this project, but isn't betting the whole farm on it just yet. If the game fails they cut it off like a petulant limb and stick with what they know will work EVE. The slow integration plan and promise from last years fan fest is evidence of that fact. I do not wish for Dust to be severed and left on the operating room floor. The potential it has is to great, although painfully unrealized. Having said that, what do you consider the last build? Swings of the nerf hammer barely count. For me it feels nothing has significantly changed since September when they removed skirmish 1.0 and added the LAR, that was 5 months ago. Far more has been lost since then, from the removal of the larger variety vehicle modules to active scanners. Its taken a year but my patience has become thread bare. I like the game, the genera, New Eden but this is becoming a let down and getting to the point where even I am having trouble telling myself "its a Beta, it'll get better." Now that i see CCP has started mass advertisement for people to come partake of a truthfully unfinished game, it's causing me to loose patience.