EVE General Discussion

The fact is tether a new product to an established product and most will fail.

Why?

The tethered product doesn't have it's own identity. It's own brand.

It's like Bethesda adding Fallout3 to Skyrim. It wouldn't sell to either market, and probably annoy both.

When CCP makes a PC version, maybe then they can unlink the two, and let DUST develop into it's own brand.

It doesn't need to piggyback onto EvE for EvE players to play it. Fans will play it because they're CCP fans, genre fans or just want to try something different. And from there it grows it's own wings and becomes it's own.

If it existed in 2007 I may have played it then, but Battlefield 2142 got there first, and now I like the brand and play the series (and hoping for BF2143). If DICE added it as a DLC to BF2, I would never have gotten it. Got sick quick of the 1000000000001 modern warfare or WWII games at the time, and wouldn't even give it a second looks. Was there at Wal-Mart one day, and BF2 box and a BF2142 box were side by side. Walked out with BF2142, as that's more interesting.

CCP are spending my subscription money on developing features in highsec. As a 0.0 player, I want them to abandon highsec.

If there's just a few people on the forums speaking out against it, it really doesn't matter. They say only 10% of the population can think for themselves .. but in EVE I think the number is much smaller. When DUST fails and it will.... you can think of what EVE could have been. It's not like I'm the first person in 6 years to ask CCP to rethink their trajectory, possibly the only one who still bothers.

Ask Coca-Cola that lessen when they tried to market new Coke as Coke.

Name was there, the taste wasn't, and consumers were irate (the Cola war of the 80s).

How do you think DUST came about, just curious

My friend in the console market time is everything, people get bored quick and there's a lot of competiton out there so CCP cant afford be dicking around for another 4 to 5 yrs on one game trying to figure out how DUST will work.

One thing that many ppl don't understand is that abandoning Dust now will not help EVE at all.

Because the money is already invested. And even if we don't need this console crap, we should hope that Dust will be successful. Because if it's not, it'll be a huge money loss for CCP, and EVE will be developing even slower. If not closed.

So far I have seen no proof of anything. Unless you have access to CCP's accounts you cannot know how much money Dust is making let alone conjecture that it is "bleeding" EvE dry. People have cited anecdotal evidence about previous similar experiments that aren't actually very similar, mainly due to the fact that linking two different genres on two different platforms into one game world has never been done before.

CCP is not spending your money on DUST. They are spending theirs. The money they earnt by renting access to their game to the players of EvE. Now if they neglect EvE and do not evolve the game to your satisfaction then by all means make your voice heard. We've just had a major (free) expansion and not once has someone said "Odyssey is crap, it must be Dust's fault" in this thread though. So how about we give it a chance.

Edit: Proof read next time Cecil

Ah yes, the enlightened shepherd has come to awaken us sheeple from our ignorance. Clearly if only we were capable of actually thinking, we would be high-fiving each other and telling op how right they are.

Who would probably like that money spent on their hobby rather than some inane, derivative console shooter which is going nowhere.