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Is Dust 514 eating money away from EVE online?
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Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#41 - 2013-12-30 02:23:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Johan Civire
The question is you want to have dust or WiS?

if you need to choice withs one? Keep dust alive or convert it to WiS in eve online?

My choice is to let dust die and use dust as a platform for WiS.
Captain Ravanor Eistiras
Doomheim
#42 - 2013-12-30 02:47:49 UTC
dust is a really good game, i myself have spent more on dust in a month than i would just buying games at all (which is a fair bit) alot of dust mercs buy the AUR which i asume is were the dust r&d funds come from, if you play dust and eve you start to see how eventually it will all come together wether we like it or not, keep eve on pc and dust on console, 2 diffent markets catered for..
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2013-12-30 03:00:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
Johan Civire wrote:
The question is you want to have dust or WiS?

if you need to choice withs one? Keep dust alive or convert it to WiS in eve online?

My choice is to let dust die and use dust as a platform for WiS.


False dichotomy. What if one wants neither, or both?

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
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#44 - 2013-12-30 03:50:31 UTC
Just my 2 isk but it doesn't look like DUST is taking much money at all if the gameplay is any indication.

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#45 - 2013-12-30 03:51:28 UTC
Yonis Kador wrote:
Wasn't Valkyrie developed as a 20% project? Because CCP devs are alloted 20% of their time to conceptualize and develop new projects, it isn't that surprising that there are so many projects being promoted right? Is developing software for platforms that do not yet exist risky? What is the word? Duh? But if that risk pays off, it tends to pay off in spades. As long as the 20% perk exists, we should expect more and more ideas to hit the deck. Instead of deriding them out of hand, I'd suggest we instead celebrate the hits and mourn the misses.

I get that some people would enjoy meaningful avatar interaction and they may have a point that the in-station engine could have been used to work out the bugs with Dust. I'm not a software engineer but it makes sense. If I were able to attend an in-avatar CSM town hall meeting, would I? Sure. Why not? But only if it could be raided by pirates who could kidnap, ransom, and/or execute everyone in attendance. Just like the risks one takes when going anywhere in public.

I seriously doubt that CCP is going to let Dust (or Valkyrie or any app) destroy its entire organization. They may shoot each other with guns, mow off each other's hair, and play sociopathic kamakazis in-game but I'm betting they have better business sense.

EVE, after all, is proof that they get some things right.

YK



The tech demo was developed as a 20% project.

Valkyrie is being expanded from that tech demo, by a group of developers who have been moved over to Newcastle.

Woo! CSM XI!

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Mr Pragmatic
#46 - 2013-12-30 06:16:56 UTC
Oh, Dust is Bust....oh well.

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#47 - 2013-12-30 06:24:22 UTC  |  Edited by: James Amril-Kesh
Miasmos wrote:
#1 reason I want Dust to tank quickly:

I feel the potential but it's such a horror to play that I want to be able to completely quit it without fear of falling off the peak of skill and skillpoint curve. Either it has longevity or I'm wasting thought thinking of the potential.

This is about as objective reason as there is to be hating on it IMHO.

Or you could just move on with your life.

One has to wonder if Dust has done poorly because EVE players are vindictive and want it to fail, either because it's a PS3 exclusive or because they don't want CCP working on anything other than EVE.

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Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#48 - 2013-12-30 11:51:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Arduemont
James Amril-Kesh wrote:

One has to wonder if Dust has done poorly because EVE players are vindictive and want it to fail, either because it's a PS3 exclusive or because they don't want CCP working on anything other than EVE.


I find that unlikely. It did badly in independent reviews, and it's target audience are console players who largely wont have been subjected to Eve. I wouldn't be surprised if most of it's current player-base are made up of Eve players who just happen to have a PS3.

I don't know about anyone else, but I wanted Dust to do well. I even told all my friends who owned PS3s. They played it, said it was **** and then moved on.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#49 - 2013-12-30 11:57:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Katran Luftschreck
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2008: 5,532,343 <- CCP: "Bring us weed and hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2009: 6,020,872 <- CCP: "Bring us coke and high class hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2010: 5,482,264 <- CCP: "Bring us cheap booze and hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2011: 8,817,262 <- CCP: "Oh yeah, we're rich! LET'S FART OUT DUST!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2012: 4,597,556 <- Playerbase: "Ewwww, who farted?"

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