EVE General Discussion

How do you know that it's profitable?

Haven't played any of the recent "battlefield" games, but they had an interesting commander character role that had a top down interface like an rts, that combined the intense fps pvp and rts aspects.

You could call down artillary fire, parachute in supplies, mark targets and do recon for the pvp players.

imo this type of rts interaction would be the closest to combining both of Eve's realtime pvp to an rts.

Actually they said that last year,
but that's nitpicking.

Same here. I was really excited after the presentation last year where they showed one account/character that can be used in multiple games. One universe. Playing valkyrie/dust/legion with your EVE char.


*sad panda*
I would play the hell out of a good PC FPS. On the other hand it may become just a BF/CoD clone with microtransactions everywhere and a gameplay for 3 year olds... So maybe it's better that way instead of releasing a shity game.

Noriko its better off this way.

Sure if you don't have a PS4 then getting one would be a minor inconvenience (though not as much as getting any respectable PC rig honestly). But there is nothing stopping them from proper KB/M support other than priorities being ass backwards. It could play pretty much the same exact way, and with the added benefit of virtually no hacking as thats a lot more difficult on a console FPS.

This is probably the ideal scenario, all things considered.

The only real benefit of putting it on PC would be a higher-end graphical experience, and let's be serious here. CCP blueballs us on graphics all the time as it is because they are worried about the low end user being left behind. This would be no different.

Controllers need autoaim to make the game (FPS) fun, because it's impossible to play on even slightly the same level as someone with KB/M. Dust hast KB/M support. But I won't buy a console for one game. I don't even have a freakin TV... You can buy a PC at lower cost as the ps4 and have better performace (see The Potato Masher).
I don't play on my couch eating doritos. I freak the _fuck out if I buy a game, play multiplayer and then have to compete with money spend and not with skill. I don't play f2p because of microtransaction hell and constant assrape if you don't pay. It's just a totaly different audience. To each his own, I guess.



The cheating argument is kinda poor. Every freakin console game with online mode is full of cheaters.

Graphics are important if they want to become the next BF/CoD clone that fails. Gameplay is important if they want to survive. And I just don't get it what is so hard go the way UT4 does or even cooperate with them to create a side project with EVE connection. That engine and ambitious vision connected to EVE planetary/station/whatever combat. Imagine fighting over your station just by jumping in your Soldier Clone. No need to rely on someone somewhere on a console with no actual connection to EVE. Fight in space, fight on ground, the choice is yours! You and your friends (EVE player or not doesn't matter) fight together for your _shit. How awesome would that be?!?!

Imagine the potential, imagine the possibilities... dream with me

That would have been completely counter to the point of the project.

Also, myself and around 2500-3000 others (average PCU) are still playing the game. Right now I'm trying to organize all the streamers to broadcast the game during the Faction Warfare LP event going on from the 9th to the 16th, and myself and some friends will be streaming Dust while we also stream an Orbital Strike support fleet in EVE so you can see the interaction in real time.

So while the game is hardly what CCP wanted it to be, it's not quite dead yet. The life support is still going strong.

This is my thread, for refence:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=417264&find=unread

They wanted to bring a group of players into New Eden that would normally never be able to experience it, and if it weren't for the criminal level of mismanagement it suffered under the old Executive Producer CCP Jian - who no longer works for CCP Shanghai - it would have been far more of a success.

It was further hurt last year by the "Dust 514 Keynote" being an announcement of the game being dropped in favor of a PC title, which is all anyone who watched the stream could see because the Roundtables where topics such as character progress transfer were discussed were not streamed.

I watched many of the well-established Dust Corporations dissolve and vanish overnight. The one I was a part of, composed primarily of players of the old PS3 title M.A.G., was disbanded. My CEO sold all the Districts we owned and all the assets, paid each of us 300 million ISK, and then left the game.

In what seems like a rather cruel twist of fate, rather than some new game coming out and stealing Dust's thunder, it was CCP repeatedly trying to drive the nail into the coffin.

Now CCP Rattati is leading a very small team of developers and releasing regular fixes to the game, and it has actually been improving over the last few months. I recently got back into it and have been having quite a bit of fun.

CCP Hilmar's statement at the start of FanFest 2015 has instilled a sense of hope back into those of us who remain, and you can see it and hear it when you go on the forums or just hop into squads via the Squad Finder. That's part of why I want to organize the dual-stream I mentioned to show people that we're still here and we aren't leaving anytime soon.

Back then they had a "EVE Everywehere" strategie. Trying to not touch the PC segment in fear of loosing EVE subs to thier new products. Then they realised it's bullshit and have the new "EVE United" strategie.

https://youtu.be/JKafw3dUT4Y?list=PLldrBIEnJ5hMIXwk_e8-VZb0EldJqXmg_&t=3579
This is actually a really interesting talk from Hilmar!


Oh I remember that Great times
Sadly the ISDs censored my scientific analysis of the dust community. Here's a small hint: A LOT of death threats. Threats to shoot everyone in CCP office. etc...