EVE General Discussion

In a totally different game that was a drain on CCP's budgets with no hope of ever making the money back.

Same people who were working on the technology for WiS if I recall correctly?

Doesn't mean it's the same thing. If I remember rightly, the wod engine was a fork of the incarna engine used in the cq, which ended the possibility of shared resources as the original cq engine just wasn't up to the task. Point is, getting rid of wod doesn't change the state of play for wis.

I respectfully disagree as always, it's my opinion that avatar content would be a pivotal moment in the direction of ccp, they were more than willing to bank their future on it once before and had a strategic plan for revenue, meaning that it must have been feasible. This doesn't change the fact that they botched the implementation of it.

Not available yet? Tell me what is not relevant NOW. And where in SC you don't get spaceships and PVP? What is different it will not have null space and people pushing F1 in a massive blobfests. I don't think it's a must have for every game, and sandbox in eve is more like a freedom to misbehave or behave in an orderly manner, CCP have all the strings in their hands. That is what draws people to EVE. Avatars or spaceships, doesn't really matter if you could switch models, and stick to the general EVE "space is harsh and you can do what you want" idea.

Why can't you or I play SC right now?

That's pretty darn relevant.

It does not matter what SC backers approve or not. What matters is who's providing entertainment TODAY worthy of paying money for. Right now you must think that's CCP or you would be playing something else, and not here where you are adding to CCP's balance sheet..

Some screenshots from the now canceled world of darkness game are starting to surface

http://themittani.com/news/world-darkness-images-and-manual-leaked

Stand alone is as good as nothing. You are back to the starting point with the integration issues etc. I want one game, not many games.

PC version of Dust according to drunken devs in Iceland.

On PS3 they're grasping for an entirely new audience. (Console players)

On PC They have an established audience to tap into and then expand upon. (Existing CCP fans)

I read something just yesterday that the PC market is now exceeding the console gaming market. I can't recall where I read it, so if someone else has any insight as to the validity of this claim please share it with us.

As for "All it can do" That's an incredibly short sighted and frankly ignorant statement. Is there greater risk of cheaters on PC? My opinion would be yes. Is that a strong enough reason to NOT come to PC? While it's worth consideration while making the decision, By itself I wouldn't say it's reason enough to not deploy to PC. There are plenty of FPS shooters on PC that are successful despite the risk of cheaters.

As for "[other things] it can do" It can increase the the connectivity between the two community's as you will have a greatly increased number of players that are playing both and we'd likely see a forum section added to the EVE forums for it. Additionally, it would open up greater options for connectivity between the two games. Possibly even the platform to develop WiS on.

As for putting it on the PS4. If it came to PC, that in itself doesn't tell us that they WON'T release to PS4 also, They're already making Valkyrie a multiple platform product and Dust is already on the Unreal engine (easy to port to multiple platforms). Additionally, if they bring it to PC we'll likely see a serious bump in the overall quality of the graphics potential which would also lend itself to the PS4 nicely too.