IMPAIRS YOUR ABILITY
Goonfeet
Special Planetary Emergency Response Group
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Posted - 2013.06.11 21:56:00 -
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In late 2006 there was this same sense of doom on the Playstation 2 SOCOM forums and how the pending PS3 and the Slant 6 Socom Confrontation was going to decimate the SOCOM I-III and CA playerbase. Those Playstation 2 servers were still active until they were turned off last August. That is an 11 year history of being able to log on and play with actually pretty healthy numbers. If there is one thing I can give credit to Sony for is continuing to support their game servers well past the systems life or in the case of the Zipper the developer life. you can still log in and play warhawk a PS3 launch title from 7 years ago. Same for the KZ games.
The new system will not drive the player base away, its lack of additional content down the road and lack of support for cheating and glitches that drive people away. The only thing that drove the Socom fans off the PS2 was the development of MAG on the PS3 and the promise of a platform that wouldn't be re-released as a I, II, III version every year and that it was client side to thwart rampant cheats like game shark. To Sony's detriment they didn't follow up on that promise of continued content when they acquired Zipper and that population started to fall apart looking for the next thing.
This almost immediately started a trend of these exact same type of doom and gloom threads on the MAG forums by most of the exact same offenders here (I'm looking at you Stew 360 and you General Technique hows PS2, Homefront, Brink, BF2-3, KZ3, COD XX working out for you? ) Don't confuse that with the game being dead I can still log in and play any game mode although the bigger 256 Domination mode takes a bit longer.
Nothing about CCP and their history with EVE would suggest that they are not able to fulfil that same vision of making the game greater over time with additional content. If anything their track record supports the idea that they may be the first developer to succeed with that in an FPS game. If CCP's goal is to create the best game they can on this platform with that vision they are in a perfect position to do so with no need to ever port to PC or PS4. The PS3 will inevitably get a price drop and still outsell the PS4 for several years especially in asia, the same way the PS2 spiked after the PS3's release. DUST may be the only reason you turn on your PS3 in several years and if the game still hits those marks they have succeeded. Who knows if they really get it together we may all own PS4's and play Destiny or whatever new shiny game comes out (I'm looking forward to Media Molecules new game) but could still be playing on our PS3 with a huge player base that only owns a 99$ PS3 for netflix and DUST514 as well that has no intention of spending $400+ on the next thing.
As an analogy I've enjoyed the same Led Zeppelin songs whether they were played on my record player, 8 track, cassette, mini-disc, I-pod, or Pandora. The device does not make the content better, any hype to that end is exactly that hype to get you ecited and be a good little consumer. In the end the 1973 vinyl sound best and the martinez turntable that was a hand me down is worth more than any of the new crap. |