Tupni
Capital Acquisitions LLC
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Posted - 2013.07.28 23:13:00 -
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By my opinion the future of Dust 514 will likely see expansion with the eighth generation of home video gaming consoles as the PS4 narrowly beats out the Xbox One in hardware, notably in price, and significantly in policy to pull in more users. In the year between now and then, Dust will slowly but surely improve itself in the style that CCP developed EVE to the solid game it is known to be, and directly relative to that, how it nurtured and looked to its renown community that in many ways makes that game as great as it is and yet could be. Which is to say slowly, steadily, and occasionally (getting drunk and) making mistakes, but ultimately improving and expanding in the oldest tradition of humanity.
Where exactly this will lead is difficult for anyone to gauge, however, it's my hope that the universes of Dust and Eve gradually come ever closer together while ever refining gameplay, growing interesting and positive social networks and bonds between players, for the first time creating a wholly enjoyable hybrid realm of entertainment that is seamless between two dramatically different genres and consoles, creating a scale that ranges from a single commercial farm on a backwater planet owned and run by a player, leased from a player corporation, up to the first PC elected (or by less democratic methods, installed) as leader of an intergalactic nation and all the other unfettered living player cogs in-between for a universe of unparalleled play potential that offers as much of everything to everyone as is feasible.
If I had a fear, it would be that in the first year of Dust's 'dust-off', that like the flying coffin of a dropship guided by inexperienced hands it, after floundering about, quickly meets the ground with a terminal velocity, taking any player dreams, and future endeavors by CCP with it, returning in essence to the figurative notion of its namesake.
But here's hoping. Here's hoping that ten years from now, and perhaps some more after that, Dust, and Eve, and any future modules of play are even more and even better.
--- Tupni
(Hopefully a grandiose submission is fine too, sorry it got so long and it's so late, I didn't know this was a thing that was happening and just threw it together) |