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Posted - 2013.04.19 14:16:00 -
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Cyn Bruin wrote:The reason i state this in the title is because I believe it.
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A few more i'll add later...
Oh goody. Another one of these threads. You could have saved yourself the time and effort it took to write out and format your post and just written, CCP moar gamez NOWWWWW!!!!! You FAIL!!!
Instant gratification in games inevitably leads to boredom and stale gameplay as quickly if not more quickly than waiting a while for something that might actually be interesting. The reason most games need to force feed their players new content is because the games have no substance.
Dust 514 hasn't really seen anything new since last fall. By your own logic no one should be playing. But people are even going so far as to AFK farm in anticipation of new content. Why would they do that if they weren't invested in or looking forward to new content? Sure, they are not playing in matches or shooting other players, but they are still taking the time to log in.
I am not sure you understand some of the basic concepts behind things like maps in this game. They aren't meant to be those mini mall paint ball mazes you shoot people in like COD or the filling box of donuts maps you get with Battlefield where once you play them for a few weeks you move on to new maps and never play the old maps you don't really care for. Only to stop playing any of the old maps once Battlefield 12 gets released.
Why do we even need "Game Modes" in this game at all beyond instant battle pub matches? Isn't it meant to be a sandbox? I am more looking forward to gameplay where players have the tools to invent their own game modes.
Why don't players pay attention? Do they need the developers to personally visit them at home give the players milk and cookies and explain everything going on with the game to the players as if the players were 5 year olds? The reason CCP decided to go into "open beta" was that they had decided to move Dust onto tranquility. They couldn't really make further progress on the test server. There was too much that needed testing with game stability on the actual game server that they could not test until the game was actually running on that server.
CCP themselves knew the game was far from "ready" for "open beta." But when they moved the game to Tranquility they decided to lift the NDA because there is another game on that same server. And Dust interacts with that other game. It is called EVE. So instead of trying to keep Dust or parts of Dust in a "closed beta" and try to figure out how to deal with the parts of Dust that interacted with EVE or anything that was part of the shared world, item information, etc. under the "closed beta" umbrella they decided to open up the game.
Maybe they needed more players. Maybe they don't do things like other companies, where "open beta" means that the game has already been packaged and shipped to retail outlets and is about to be released and no further changes can be made until the first major patch. Which is usually something that tries to fix a bunch of stuff that should have been fixed before the game was released anyway.
What you really seem to be saying is that if Dust doesn't put out on the first date, you aren't going to stick around. Well, good luck with that. In gaming as well as in life.
I am not saying that Dust 514 is anything to write home about, or that it will ever be the game we had dreamed of playing when we first say some of the game trailers. But May 6th is not a make or break. And content churn won't make the game any better or worse in and of itself. If the new content is good, it will make the game better. If the new content is bad, it will make the game worse. No matter how often it updates.
Finally, the game is designed so that eventually new content can be streamed into the game when it is available. So your entire post may be moot anyways. The three to six month update cycle is one thing one CCP employee mentioned (David Reid during IGN live game demo) but CCP have also very often mentioned the "streaming in content" thing often enough to indicate that they are looking at entirely new ways to provide game content. So May 6th is no big deal for a game meant to last decades. |