EVE General Discussion

I think everyone realises that but i prefer to be optimistic about what I'm hearing and so far what im hearing sounds like pretty much every other game at the developement stage DUST is at. Not everything is in yet and not everything is optimised but the core mechanics are solid and they have a good base to work from.

Another thing to bear in mind is the good reception the ideas behind DUST have been getting from the PS3 community. Now they know nothing about CCP and nothing about EVE but in this case I think their opinions are just as important when it comes to judging success, after all they will be the primary buyers of this game and the ones who determine wether or not CCP can sell to an audience outside of EVE.

The big thing with console games is that people hate spending 60$ on them, so what is CCP's answer to this? Charge them less more often cause as we all saw with call of duty elite charging people more to play a new version of an old game goes over with fans so well. Also yeah the console crowd wants there dead bodies now, not in 15 mins or 3 days when they have the skills necessary to not die instantly, they want them right ******* now. Good luck selling a hurry up and wait game to the I WANT IT NOW console crowd.

Just out of curiosity when this all fails miserably do you guys have a back up plan on how to remove this from the game after the console population drops to a few dozen people? Cause it would be too funny to have all of these integration features added to the game just to have them sit there with no use because there is no one playing the console game.

And finally, when was the last time besides a Halo game where the population on a console FPS stayed above a few hundred thousand players for more than 1 year?

Totally agree on this, just like we dont have player piloted fighters (FPS equivalent of EVE), we shouldnt have combat at the footsoldier level. In a time of plasma cannons, hiding behind a rock is immersion breaking.

Im hoping most combat on the field will be vehicular and only fighting in the buildings will be done by infantry.

I LIIIIKE THAT!!!
I'm writing that on the casing of my first planetary bomb!
I might even ride it down for effect!
Yaaaa-hooooooooooooo....!!!!

You won't spend $300 bucks on a PS3 but you will spend how many thousand on a PC? Sorry, but your argument makes absolutely no sense. What you're doing is equating the cost of one game which is FREE with the entire cost of a console which - just like your PC - can play hundreds of games other than DUST.

Also, you might want to check just how many PS3 have been sold (hint: it's a ******* big number)

In that case maybe Dust will be worth it in 5 years or so, after it gets seasoned a while.