DUST Search - May 6th is a lose-lose for CCP

Cyn Bruin wrote:

The reason i state this in the title is because I believe it.

The 3-6 month release cycle will backfire. Most FPS titles know you have to update content at regular intervals. As a customer if you wait 1/2 a year for new content in a game, odds are, you will buy a "shiny new" game and forget about said old game.

If the new build is mind blowingly awesome, our boredom might be relieved for 1-2 months.

If the new build is average, alot will see this as a sign of bad development and move on to something with a future.

If the new build is horrible, we will look at each other and nod our heads knowingly and then move on.

With delays in content that take this long, you (CCP) are shooting yourselves in the head (cash register). By waiting 6 months to put out new content, you are relying on your player base to "invent" ways to make the game playable. If noone likes the new build, we have to wait another 6 months for new toys? Who wants to do that...

Ways to fix it:

1. Scrap the 3-6 month updates for big builds. Update with less content, more often.

2. I hate to mention other shooters, but take a page from BF3 or CoD. Roll out NEW (not reconfigured) new MAP packs bi-monthly (every 2 months for vocabulary impaired).

3. Roll out 1 new game mode bi-monthly (theres that word again). If this Domination game mode CCP is introducing is just like the one they had out there 3 months or so ago, no thanks. How hard is it to put one objective on the map and call it a new game mode... pretty easy i guess.

4. Communicate to the player base your ideas and "supposed" time frames. Your paying customers would love to give you their opinions and pay to do so, listen well and don't blow it off. As an example: Closed beta testers letting you know this game wasn't ready for open beta.

A few more i'll add later...


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Marston VC SVER True Blood Unclaimed. 151	Posted - 2013.04.18 21:00:00 - [1] - Quote Cyn Bruin wrote: The reason i state this in the title is because I believe it. The 3-6 month release cycle will backfire. Most FPS titles know you have to update content at regular intervals. As a customer if you wait 1/2 a year for new content in a game, odds are, you will buy a "shiny new" game and forget about said old game. If the new build is mind blowingly awesome, our boredom might be relieved for 1-2 months. If the new build is average, alot will see this as a sign of bad development and move on to something with a future. If the new build is horrible, we will look at each other and nod our heads knowingly and then move on. With delays in content that take this long, you (CCP) are shooting yourselves in the head (cash register). By waiting 6 months to put out new content, you are relying on your player base to "invent" ways to make the game playable. If noone likes the new build, we have to wait another 6 months for new toys? Who wants to do that... Ways to fix it: 1. Scrap the 3-6 month updates for big builds. Update with less content, more often. 2. I hate to mention other shooters, but take a page from BF3 or CoD. Roll out NEW (not reconfigured) new MAP packs bi-monthly (every 2 months for vocabulary impaired). 3. Roll out 1 new game mode bi-monthly (theres that word again). If this Domination game mode CCP is introducing is just like the one they had out there 3 months or so ago, no thanks. How hard is it to put one objective on the map and call it a new game mode... pretty easy i guess. 4. Communicate to the player base your ideas and "supposed" time frames. Your paying customers would love to give you their opinions and pay to do so, listen well and don't blow it off. As an example: Closed beta testers letting you know this game wasn't ready for open beta. A few more i'll add later... This is a MAJOR foundation laying build that needed time to be organized and set up. And its not like they've done nothing these past few months. They've done dozens of patches, and changed/ tweaked things as far as gameplay goes and what not. An example of what happens when you try to rush things out would be the sound update they did a month or two back. That update was cool for the first two minutes of every game before my audio would start to explode and die. You have to understand how development works too. Its not like CCP has a 100 man team that has a list of things to do. They DONT just go and knock one thing out at a time (because if they did your idea would be totally plausible), but rather.... they have dozens of small 5 to 10 man teams working on differn't projects all at once. Many of these teams (im sure) fully utilize the time their given to insure the quality of the content their creating. Again try and look at what happened with the audio update when they tried releasing that as a stand alone thing..... not good. Now think about how much better it could be a few months later when they release it at the same time everything else is. Now ill admit that this scenario does not challenge the first part of your argument (the one relating to people getting bored), but I like to think that things will be alright in that respect. CCP hasn't even begun what I consider an advertisement campaign. Yes there are thing here and there but really the game is still in beta and so I question why there trying to get people into it at all right now. Will see though, will see.