The Attorney General
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Michael Arck wrote:
So depth is decided by customization and characters? Are we now treating this game as if CCP has walked away from it? (OH YEA YOU ARE). Did not CCP say they have a 10 year plan? Did not EVE get horrible reviews when it first dropped and visually looked terrible? Now it has a thriving community and it looks fantastic?
This is what I mean. Mental maturity. Able to look at this whole thing and judge objectively.
Dust is not Eve.
Thinking that Dust can follow the same development style of Eve is dooming it to failure.
Judging the game objectively is why it gets absolutely horrid reviews. Because, objectively, it is a bad FPS. A great idea, with tons of potential, but still a bad FPS.
CCP can take the ten year plan and laugh at how wildly they dreamt while 1000 eve fans who can't be competitive in any real FPS struggle to smash new players who only play because their brother or sister handed them down a PS3.
Is there a section in their ten year plan for how they will recoup the lost players who have been turned away by bad balance, shoddy developing and broken mechanics?
Is there a section in the plan for how they intend to go about fixing the absolutely horrid reputation this shooter has right now?
Is there a space in that plan for how they intend to combat the vets, the very people who tolerated this behaviour for so long, going around afterwards saying "F Dust"? Because there were many people who ask me if Dust is ready to paly yet, and I have to laugh and tell them not yet. Because I got a lot of people to play this thing back in open beta, only one of them still plays it. When they see people like me who gave this game every chance to get better finally throw in the towel, why would they think that that is something they need to try? |
The Attorney General
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RydogV wrote:
Granted. But is there anything stopping any player from coming back 3, 6, 10, 12 months later to check in on the progress of Dust and gauge whether it might have met some of that potential and improved to a point where it might be a viable game to start reinvesting a little playtime in?
What are players going to NOT play out of spite, even if the game enhances all the aspects that caused them to look elsewhere for a time? I mean c'mon. If Dust 514 came out on PS4 nine months after the platform launch and was significantly improved, players are not going to log in, distribute the millions of skill points they have acquired while they were away and jump into the Burnzone to see how things have progressed?
Gimmie a break.
I'm not speaking for anyone else, but if CCP manages to kill my last bit of hope for this game, when I walk away I am never looking back.
Not because I am mad, or spiteful, but because CCP will have shown themselves completely incapable of getting this game off the ground.
No amount of money or time can fix a bad dev house. And how much money do you really expect CCP to throw at something that only a couple of thousand players play regularly? Especially when only a fraction of them are paying for aurum?
Do you think Dust has provided enough funding to CCP to make an investment in making a new engine worthwhile, or are they looking at it as a side project, and any revenue they can generate from it on the cheap is how they will roll? How long will the Eve faithful tolerate this abortion of a shooter draining resources away from their game?All the Eve players I know who do not play Dust want this thing dead and buried.
The other part of it is the manner in which this has all been handled reeks of a bad scam.
"Hey guys, we have some great content lined up over the next six months, and look, boosters are on sale!"
"Ok guys, we are getting ready for release, here are some overpriced packs for you to buy! New content soon!"
"Now, I know that the last couple of months have been rough, but we really are working on new stuff, for real this time."
I have seen crackheads who are more reliable.
I am being more than generous when I say that 1.4 is make or break for me. I was originally going to leave when release was such a shambles, but my hope still remained. That last vestige of hope is already heading to the ground, and as the weeks pass leading up to 1.4 it will probably get dimmer because CCP will be all cryptic and stupid.
If 1.4 is a brick, I will not even bother trying to explain to CCP how they could have done better. I will just laugh at myself for hoping that they could do it, uninstall, and never be concerned with it again.
If nothing else, this whole experience has given me a long list of references of what devs should never do, and I am the wiser for it. Too bad CCP can't even learn from their own mistakes. Hell, now they have a CPM going around dropping cryptic hype posts because they know that if they were to try and pull that crap, everyone would call them on it. |