EVE General Discussion

This is pretty much it.

I AFK the weekly SP cap in skirmish matches in two or three days every week so I can dump a lot of SP into something cool when the game is in a better shape.

This link will tell you everything you need to know about the credibility of gaming journalism.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dragon-age-ii

Dust is going to grow. I bet anything and everything on it. It's current state is no different to how EVE was when it was released - pretty much a mere seed that hasn't even really sprouted yet.

The thing that CCP truly excel at is sheer persistence and everlasting iterations and it will make all the difference in the world once Dust has fixed all the infantile issues and added even more content/integrated further with EVE.

Whilst orbital bombardments are cool they're nothing compared to all the other crazy interactions that you'll eventually have and people will eventually discover this.

In the end it doesn't matter in the slightest whether there is a million CoD fanbois who will end up dissing Dust. These aren't really the kind of players that we want in the EVE universe anyway.

Control issues and other things of this nature aside, the one thing that I personally cannot really figure out is how utterly lost many people seem to be when they first start playing Dust. Maybe I am just the kind of player who doesn't mind reading some text and so on in order to learn things in a game but the skill system and whatnot else doesn't seem to really require a university degree to figure out. Yet so many seem to act as if this is the case which makes me wonder whether their mothers dropped them on their heads when they were small or something.

You have any examples of this or are we just pipe dreaming here? Just log into EVE, enter the CQ and look at the door. That door is going to be DUST's legacy here.

Post Incarna:
Sorry we messed up guys. We're only going to focus on spaceships from now on....except for that F2P shooter we're making...but we promise it will be just as good as the captain's quarters and have "potential".

10 years ago EVE Online sucked. Less than 5,000 people played it. It was broken and exploitable. It got horrible reviews.

'meh.

Wait until you hit the drier.

Well obviously I at least live in the reality where I know that everything cannot be created in half an hour. I am fully aware that the door is going to stay closed for quite some time still due to resources having been redirected elsewhere and that CCP made a couple of mistakes which led to this. But hey, that is reality and bitching about it is a task for fools and worse.

As for new content, we've heard a lot of different things already. Again, I don't expect it to be around for at least a couple of years but what we all know is that CCP wants to essentially merge these two games into one where dusties run around in stations and ships (titans) and cause havoc. I don't play dust in the slightest as I'm not even a console user but nevertheless I think that Dust is the best thing since sliced bread in terms of innovation. Specially when you consider how god damn stale the whole gaming industry has been for the last 5 or so years.

Damn beat me to it!

Anyhow the point I was going to make was that when Eve Online first came out it got pretty lukewarm reviews too, and now it has outlasted a significant portion of MMOs. While I am not impressed with Dust 514 yet, doesn't mean with some time and tweaks won't mean it won't eventually become a decent to good game.

Plus people forget that most of the big sites will always gravitate to a specific set type of games that appeal to a broad range of people, so games like Eve Online and Dust will likely get the shaft except for the occasional deeply buried story.

This is true, and as its clearly been influenced by those terrible terrble games, it will just end up as a pale imitation of something that is already reeking of awful. Unless they notice that and change it asap