EVE General Discussion

Simple question... In addition to CCP's current focus on EVE gameplay, if CCP only had the resources to dedicate to one other feature/product, would you choose Dust 514 or Walk in Stations?

It's hard to choose when you aren't very enthusiastic about either. But if I had to choose I'd say WiS and get it done properly :D

This is a difficult question to answer. What defines WiS? I can't easily compare that against Dust 514 which is almost a fully fleshed out product while WiS is still at the design stage. Is it the Captains' Quarters? Is it gambling, assassination, seedy brothels, black-market trading, EVE integration and all that? I can't tell what you think WiS is.

If WiS became a fully fledged game like Dust 514 with meaningful interaction with EVE Online and it had the type of publicity and support that Dust has, then WiS. Especially if they carry on with the player versus player competitive aspect of EVE in WiS.

If it is the way it is now, then Dust as it can bring in more revenue that can be used on other components of EVE Universe and it completments the concept of EVE Online very well.

Dust will plague the game with console kiddies and WiS caters to insufferable roleplayers. I'd vote for CCP continuing on their current track of focusing on Eve.

Well we already have socially impotent basement dwelling men pretending to be old ladies, so the roleplaying is already here and happening.

Personally I don't play shooters on a console so I'd be more inclined to pick an interactive station environment in which to spend my iskies. But objectively it's not a question that can be answered easily. Apples and oranges. Catering to two completely different demographics.

Mr Epeen

Well - the console kids will at least leave the eve client largely unaffected after dirt died. The dumbass extensions will remain as dead weight - just as the nex store and CQ.

Neither, as they are both going to absolutely suck.

Is there a way that WiS would work for you?

Or

Are you so set against the idea of controling an avatar in a station or world environment that anything CCP proposes you will reject out of hand?

Because Eve's players act soo much more mature...and providing better immersion is bad why? You prefer minecraft?

Could make Dust WIS, which is what I first thought was going to come to pass in regards to station interaction etc. and give the people who are craving manual flight some kind of a fps fix. Meanwhile those who don't can just play structure grinds still and vaporize everyone in it.

But that isn't the case, at this point given the choices, dust, because it's the closest to what I expected WIS to be among other things. I doubt roleplayers will find any love beyond a channel format anytime soon. This of course is a very negative outlook, I remain patient as always in the many years of promises.

That said, to those who hate both, I don't care, you don't have to engage them. CCP may or may not listen to you, but given the state of Dust we know that's a go regardless if it fails, it's still there and it would be moronic to not place it somewhere else should it do so, and well we WIS fans have been waiting patiently, perhaps we'll get lucky through demise this time. I won't be holding my breath though, I came to EVE for the Thorax / Hyperion alone, everything else is fluff.