DUST Search - 1 major reason Why Dust 514 isnt so successfull at the moment

Void Echo wrote:

EVE Online is a subscription game and look at how it is the most successful mmo on pc and has lasted for 10 years in the gamer universe, it has constant updates, ranging from adding new features to fixing the known bugs and problems of the game.

Dust 514 is NOT a subscription game and therefore has no steady income of money to be used for improvements, all it has is aurum and that's not really worth the pennies unless your getting passive and active boosters.

I am NOT saying that Dust 514 has to be a subscription game, that would make things worse for the player base, the best thing to happen would be a one time fee to play the game. Like buying a cd game your going to play on the playstation 3 or whatever console you have, those companies make profit from selling their games at $60 for the 1st few months then lowering the price to keep revenue coming in and thus having the funds to create the next game that will be better than their previous production.

If there was a one time fee to play Dust 514 at $29.99-$49.99 and the current player base size of a little over 4000, CCP would be making a little over $200,000 every 4000 players, thus giving them the funds they need to improve gameplay, mechanics, bug fixed, glitch patches, add new items to the game, and so on.

I understand that this is free to play, but look at what has resulted in that choice, im not saying to make this game subscription based, just put in a ONE TIME payment to play this game and CCP will have the funds they NEED to make this game better.

The price for it would be up to CCP because it is their game, but it will not work if its over $60.

this would be the 1s step towards making Dust 514 the game it is meant to be.


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2100 Angels The Southern Legion RISE of LEGION 166	Posted - 2013.07.10 09:55:00 - [1] - Quote Void Echo wrote: EVE Online is a subscription game and look at how it is the most successful mmo on pc and has lasted for 10 years in the gamer universe, it has constant updates, ranging from adding new features to fixing the known bugs and problems of the game. Dust 514 is NOT a subscription game and therefore has no steady income of money to be used for improvements, all it has is aurum and that's not really worth the pennies unless your getting passive and active boosters. I am NOT saying that Dust 514 has to be a subscription game, that would make things worse for the player base, the best thing to happen would be a one time fee to play the game. Like buying a cd game your going to play on the playstation 3 or whatever console you have, those companies make profit from selling their games at $60 for the 1st few months then lowering the price to keep revenue coming in and thus having the funds to create the next game that will be better than their previous production. If there was a one time fee to play Dust 514 at $29.99-$49.99 and the current player base size of a little over 4000, CCP would be making a little over $200,000 every 4000 players, thus giving them the funds they need to improve gameplay, mechanics, bug fixed, glitch patches, add new items to the game, and so on. I understand that this is free to play, but look at what has resulted in that choice, im not saying to make this game subscription based, just put in a ONE TIME payment to play this game and CCP will have the funds they NEED to make this game better. The price for it would be up to CCP because it is their game, but it will not work if its over $60. this would be the 1s step towards making Dust 514 the game it is meant to be. "This other game did it so they should do it for this one it is tha best" has to be one of the worst methods of evaluating a business model I've ever seen. Eve is successful as a subscription game because of a number of variables, including the fact that it's on PC and its mature player base. Dust is not Eve. They each have different requirements, and there are a couple of reasons a single up front payment for a game like dust wouldnt work: 1) Traditionally, games with an upfront payment are completed prior to release. This means that there is a discrete break even point and set of profit objectives. This is not feasible with a game constantly under development as purchases are one-off and not on a regular basis making accounting practices and measuring success extremely difficult. 2) When development costs are ongoing and there is a fixed fee, a certain dependence is developed on bringing new players in rather than keeping current players satisfied. This is not good for customer service or long term profitability. The subscription model, while it caters quite well to the development cycle in both dust and eve, is not suitable for the console arena. Like you've just shown all of us, players in the console market are too used to the idea of a one off purchase that being required to pay money every month to play their game is well left of center, making it that much more likely to flop, and also completely ignore the advantages provided by the psn network over the xbox network. This would work against the game by creating the feeling in the user that they're spending more money to play this than they could on other games - which lets not kid ourselves, would do dust absolutely no favors. Subscription models obviously well accepted in the PC gaming world and which is why it works so well for Eve. Providing a free to play game, however, allows people who would not otherwise have bought the game to try it before investing any time or effort into it, which will attract a wide array of people otherwise not captured, as well as catering to its core player base. The cash shop has been shown to be more profitable over time, and provides a foundation for ongoing development. This was actually an ingenious move by CCP, so it might be worth your while taking some sort of business education before criticizing CCPs business strategy.