EVE General Discussion

lol


Thank you.

i agree with all and may I add:

this is not only related to WiS. ANY strategig development in EVE was halted, it's WiS, as well as player owned stations, sovreignity redesign and much more. Basically anything structural, not limited to mere tables updates, retexturing and light code optimization has been stopped.

They seems simply unable to have a "vision" for EVE and working on something else (console gamse, mobile games, VR games, comics, merchandeising, movies...). All this is founded with EVE subscriptions.

Now this is going on since years (3-4 at least) now. CCP is gifted to have a very loyal core playerbase and not having competitors on the market. But this cannot last forever.

So? I bet he's receiving a pretty hefty salary - some of which may be paid with my subscription fees. Personally, I couldn't care less about dust (I own a PS3, however playing an FPS on it is about practical as trying to fly in a rowing boat, so wouldn't even touch it if hell froze over).

Console FPS players are mostly lower class kids not literate enough to operate a proper computer or extremely casual family guys, both with a short attention span, little dedication and a focus on graphics - both demographics being quite the opposite of what I'd consider most eve players, whereas dust doesn't seem to provide enough instant arcade gratification or the graphics these people are after (seriously - from watching gameplay videos, dust is at a stage the first Quake 3 expansion was at, but more choppy with less players per map).


Trying to join both groups was about as fruitful as trying to transplant a dying rats head on a slowly decaying human body and expect it to live and create offspring.


I have stated multiple times that I wished dust to be successful, despite always doubting it ever would, so it would create revenue that could be invested back into eve.

However the point of this thread is the feeling that dust in its expected failing influences eve balancing towards said instant gratification gameplay as depicted in curent balance passes.

On a side note, the only positive Influence I contribute to dust is the fact that it diverts devs from writing code for WIS, thus keeping the eve client somewhat cleaner

And you're a dinosaur that likes your turf and would prefer to go extinct instead of adapting...so much for wisdom helping the guy looking for that asteroid with his name on it!

EvE is only growing via multiboxing, not actual new players. IsBox is now approved in a game that macros and addons aren't even approved for the game...that tells you right there the problem. It also shows CCP doesn't have the built in user base to jump start another venture (like Blizzard did with Diablo III).

You need more than a wisdom transplant, you'll need a marketing one, too.