EVE General Discussion

When I first heard that CCP was launching Dust exclusively on the PS3, I wondered how they planned to make any sizable profit with a notoriously fickle audience. This makes sense and I support it. I would post a more detailed reply but...


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Glad I won't be paying for it so I lose no money for being killed by people who spend more

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Lots of whining, and people showing their lack of ability to read or research the subject they are complaining about.


Personally seeing most of the articles about this it seems like a good plan, as putting a subscription on a console game is a bad idea due to the nature of the way people like to game on consoles (like to not be tied down to a game which a subscription would do)
It also looks like it should not affect people who don't want to put RL money into the game, due to the way paid items can be sold for isk (much like plex in eve)

Also being free you are more likely to get people going "oh I wonder what this is about? oh its free *download*" than if they had to pay a cover fee. Why? because it cost nothing but time. and I already know a few guys who upon reading that it will be free have said "I will have a look at it" and knowing these guys they will most probably spend some cash while playing .. so profit.

Wow there are lot of dumb people who cant read or make basic research.

Team Fortress 2 is free-to-play shooter with vanity items in micro-transaction shop. There is no pay-to-win button.
World of Tanks is free-to-play shooter with spend-time-or-pay-to-progress system. You can buy premium Hotchkiss or Mouse to kill inexperienced losers, but still you will be raped by any good team.

Most of the complainers definitely have ps3-f2p tumor in their brain.

eve has been ftp since the introduction of Plex... sure some poor shmuck has to buy the plex in the first place and put up sell order in the first place... but if you dont want to have to pay for eve you dont have to...

This^^

F2P Dust looks like a MMO version of TF2.

Will play, won't pay, will still win.

Brilliant idea, and probably the only way they'll hit the "millions" of players estimate they originally claimed... if they up the Advertising that is.

One of the stats I was reading said that Quantum Rise was one of the most successful expansions (by player-count increase), and the only thing it can be attributed to is the small ad that CCP ran during Battlestar Galactica, because, frankly, I can't remember a thing that was remarkable about that expansion to warrant such a high success rate.

So: Free2play = excellent perk for those that already know about the game or sit around on the playstation store for the "newest stuff, but Ads = broader knowledge of the game and potentially hitting that "several million" player estimate.

This announcement is part of the campaign.

I have a blog post about this. Basically, I think Sony is fighting a difficult battle against other gaming platforms such as PC, iPhone and Facebook. They need to build passageways to the rest of the gaming world (invasion ramps or escape lanes). They want to have this PSN community built on excellent hardware and software, and keep lines of communication open. They did not have any F2P FPS, now they can reach more people.
For CCP, the primary business goal is certainly to find another source of revenue, because having only one breadwinner is a critical risk as proved last year with all the ruckus. I guess they analyzed F2P as the most efficient way to secure enough players to build revenue and also to provide a vibrant partner in the "connection feature".

Thing that bothers me is the 'aurum' as we still cannot currently trade it, so are we EVE-players going to help the dusties if we cannot give them funding or even equipment and they pay all their stuff with aurums ?

Anyway cash shop can work 3 ways:
- They either ruin the game with (massively) over priced must have in PvP items (allods anyone).
- They sell stuff that no one really cares to spend cash on and the game goes bust.
- They sell stuff that that people like to buy but are not just for progressing in the game such as premium accounts such as earlier access to horses, more bag space, no gold limit, monster play (pvp arena) etc. as in LOTRO.

And I so hope that CCP doen't F***k with the cash shop because if they do the game will be dead in a few months.
So do put those 1000 things in the cash shop instead of 6 that no one gives a damn, like we had in EVE.