EVE General Discussion

lol you've never heard that one before? when did you become a capsuleer, last month?

As a member of the Eve community I want to see Dust 514 on the PC as well as on the console. I have worked with the UT III UDK development tools and its all there in the tools. CCP hasn't ruled it out based on past statements, just search for it. And I personally think D514 will make it to the PC. My concern is that the features such as corporations may not exist on release for D514. Plus, how flexible will console players be waiting for new features?

And in all honesty I am more concerned with CCP going IPO. This global economy is very hostile. I don't want Eve Online to have to answer to shareholders who don't subscribe to the game, don't play the game, and don't know jack about the gaming industry. Look at what happened to SWTOR end game...

On the flip side where is all the PI promised that would interact with D514?

Then it may already be too late. Rabies is all but universally fatal once it reaches that stage.

thread title was more negative than I really intended.. changed.

lol my last 'console' was the Atari 5200... think I'll wait for the PC version but still may be fun to rain fire down on the DustBunnies in the meantime

There's much argument to be had, but it is undeniable that the Console gamer demographic is "short attention span theater".

The only thing that will save DUST from the dustbin of trends and "new things" is a following for the game, such as the space side of EvE has now.


Will this happen? Who knows. There might be a dedicated group of existing EvE players who prefer to pound ground when the fleet is taking too long to form up, or the corpmates are all offline. Those who already have the right console at present, but otherwise in these tight times, getting a console just to play DUST is a rather hard justification to make for the expense.

Well, isn't this amusement at a high level?

A crusader who thinks he can decide what a business may or may not spend/invest in simply cause he's a customer of one of it's products.

and when they play it and don't stick around for long, you'll be foaming out of the mouth for it to be on PC, so you can play with your EVE friends.

My whole problem with this going to console is simply that this is a CCP/EVE product. In my opinion, it SHOULD have been a WIS expansion for EVE. WIS loses....again

Well it is FREE isn't it? Our expansions are free too and we do already buy stuff in EVE for real life currency. In my feedback to CCP, I told them that pushing this to console, to be the 1st company to ever have cross-platform functionality, seemed to be an egotistical move. "We want to make gaming history". This was not about EVE or EVE players. It was about an agenda to make gaming history. Even at the cost of a sub-par product on a golden idea.

Well, you could have made gaming history by releasing seamless transition from FIS-WIS-W.O.P./FPS (that's walking on planets / first person shooter). The world of possibilities that you could have opened, you CLOSED. The vision you portrayed for EVE has been segmented to a different product all together. There's no reason that PC FPS cannot be the platform for combat, out of pod, in every future instance, in EVE. The only reason is your ego, and maybe not yours, but a certain someone within your group, somewhere above the person that may, or may not, be reading this post.

I've said this so many times in other threads in the past. I really do hope that among all those posts, that CCP did hear this.
BF3, on PC, is awesome and huge. The graphics are great, the maps are huge, and the player counts much larger. CCP should be striving to mimic this in a PC environment. Learn the lesson that DICE learned. To have larger number of players on console, you have to sacrifice graphics. This may not be the case for DUST if you have found a way around that.

In EVE, I should be able to be flying in space. Find a bounty, use locator agent, dock in station, leave ship, load captains quarters, walk to station lobby, walk to, oh wait, there's my target. I'll creep up on him and knife him to collect my *x amount of isk* for the bounty on his head. Walk to staging room OR dock with customs office walk to staging room for planet X, choose a match. Take shuttle to planet, bat phone buddies in destroyers or other ships for planetary support, create ship class for atmospheric flight, have dogfights in air, attack targets on ground....ETC. You catch my drift.

Anyways, this was the "vision" that I received from you CCP, something that at one time, your company aimed for. But then, some dimwit came along and said "this would be easier" and take less project capital and we can reach out to a new audience. You ALREADY have loyal customers. You could have gained more with creating the most epic and most impressive huge sci-fi universe of all time. FPS could have been the combat platform for all out of pod experiences inside EVE. and to me, a sci-fi fan and gaming fanatic (i do own a PS3), to ME, in my opinion, you FAILED to deliver on that vision. It is not too late......

Think it more has to do with the fact that its not ported to PC that has most angry not Xbox. Which is understandable since it removes many of CCPs long term base that supported them for so long only to turn their back on them. CCPs plan to branch into a broader player base while neglecting their current isn't the smartest move.

Edit: Didn't read the post you responded to so your point is valid my bad.

Herzog my friend, if I were forced to eat a steady diet of pickles, never offered anything other than pickles, and out of necessity I went ahead and voluntarily ate them to survive... I would be, by your definition, a pickle fanatic and prefer them over all other options.