EVE General Discussion

Wow! No one has ever suggested that before who has also never bothered to log into the game to create an avatar.

I think CCP should start making basketball shoes after DUST starts breaking records, along with clothing and accessories for urban youths. They can pick up where Tommy Hilfiger left off.

But NO WiS! That's crazy, remember the statue?

I don't have the playstation 2 platform but "convergence" is coming.

I hope a viable linux box with a non proprietary operating system jumps in . I bought my first Tivo in 2000, the year that it came out. Tivo operates on a linux computer basically but they've made almost no progress with their UI

In 2000 the Tivo UI was slick and quicker than hell (felt like that to me) ... I still vastly prefer its simlicity. I never need to know what channel a show comes on or the time.. I rarely have for 13 years.

Tivo is propietary though.

I'm sure there are boxes out there .. like infinity TV (anyone try it? ) but i'm a not tech person and I've got mental procrastination barriers to jumping in on it.

Could DUST be put on a linux alternative that fit a game processor car separate from the main video card ? A box that functioned as a cable card tuner and a straight out computer monitor and DVR ?

Anyway think I'll be able to play dust soon(2 years is soon in my 48 year old book) on my TV with neither a playstation or and xbox?



* Microsoft seems to be abandoning the concept of the PC rather than enabling the PC as an open operating system that works easily as a dvr (their windows media player was certainly on that order but without an approved cable card box built in.

Can I haz?

i can tell you play dust.

Those aren't EVE funds, those are CCP funds... to do with as they please.

I thought company's policy changed and 100-300AUR price would be more suitable for present incarnation of NeX shop :p

P.S. I wouldn't mind to buy (almost) any hat for the toon.

P.P.S. "Funny" part is (mediocre) multiplayer shooters have more players on consoles than on PCs. For example Defiance sold almost 3x times more on consoles. Dust port to PC has slim chances to compete against CoD, PS2, MW series, upcoming Destiny. And as EVE player I have ~0 interest in shooter limited to arenas - maybe only to compensate lack of WiS mechanics in EVE.

Roll it in glitter!

The hell's an Ark then?

Considering that actual fun isn't even the design of EvE, I'm not surprised that DUST isn't either.

CCP is used to making EvE and been doing it so long, there's a culture in their HQ that will follow any other game they make. FPS games are designed for careless fun all the way back to the Quake days, not turning it from the original Star Trek to what Star Trek became today (a clinically sterile geek fest that lost the space cowboy feel of the original series). Add this is the company that allows crime as a mechanic in an industry about socialization -- not antisocial behaviors -- DUST won't sell well even on a PC platform.

I played a MUD with the same outlook that attracted those who preferred playing the toughest and roughest, and the community was the worst I had ever seen in any game. When I went back to check it out, it's but existing on fumes today. Picking wings off of flies isn't what "normal" players consider fun or even a mentally healthy interest to hang around. What's left is the worst seen in RL in an online game.

MMOs are about people getting together in an environment that's conductive to grouping together, with some assurance their time and money isn't wasted on the worst elements in RL...as a game design.

It's not the skill time that hurts EvE (and by extension DUST) it's it environment. It's not fun to "normal" people. Dweebs and who you see in prison videos though think it's literally out of this world.