EVE General Discussion

They surely must be on their last legs by now

Absolutely. If you follow corporate stuff in general (like outside of game design) you'll understand some of the delicacies like negotiating licensing fee s for patents held by others that worm their way into lots of ui and potocol stuff...especially when there are cross platform uses.

The terms access can be had by smartphone might very well require adjustments to pc api access to allow smartphone networks to earn some stream of value or preserve the notion that people using smartphones must go through their store. Etc

Im just naming one idea. Companies in one area do try to get their tentacles into others and even if you rebuff ideas you need to retain the notion that you can shift things around on the table and be reasonably open to hearing concerns and finding adjustment sthat don't compromise either s goals

If Valkyrie isn't released on PC, I wont be a happy bunny

I can't see it not being released on PC though. Hillmar backed the Oculus rift kickstarter and they had the Oculus guys come to fanfest and demo Valkyrie on the rift. So to suddenly turn round after that and say "sorry we got a better offer" would not be very nice...

We PC players pay for access to this game.

What CCP does with the money after that is their business, not yours.

They could just as easily take their profits and invest them in an Icelandic fishing fleet if they preferred, and people would complain that they weren't consulted on the type of nets being used.

I believe the reason they are focusing more on WoD right now is because the White Wolf publishing acquisition DID NOT integrate these employees into CCP. Yes WWP is under CCP, but the teams do not work on any EVE related products, so they were basically being paid to sit around and either do nothing, or develop World of Twilight (darkness). CCP kind of screwed themselves over with that acquisition I believe, since it was a LONG time ago and they barely have anything to show for it yet.

I'm pretty sure the reason development for EVE has slowed down more due to the split in creating the DUST team, and mismanagement of the company that has lead to the last few stagnant expansions. CCP has told us of a GRAND plan that would be worthy of an expansion like a FULL POS remake including possible custom location POS, and even some totally new exploration mechanics where we could discover new systems. All of this has been delayed, delayed, and delayed again due to the incompetence, or just sheer lack of organization and manpower to pull it off. This of course does not include the big issue of corruption within the company.

The funny thing is an old corpmate of mine who I can never tell is joking made a rather interesting point that CCP very well may be looking to sell themselves off to another company. The slim down in devs, the slow down in production, and the overall stagnation that seems to be dwelling within CCP seems to kind of point to such a thing especially with all the rumors going around.

I,m sick of hearing death of the PC they will be around for another 10 years yet and beyond I reckon

Oh please.

I dont think real Valkyrie enthusiasts have anything to worry about if they plan on buying that game when it comes out because prior to the first ever official release of a finished VR game on the consumer Rift product in next year or so, the idea of what best platform to develop these type of new games on is still widely agreeable that its only on the pc.

As a game touted to be created for the VR experience, this is now what people expect to play so youre going to have a hard time finding any platform other than a pc that will support it (legally). If you know anything about the Rift and its devs' plans you know they only have hopes that one day, to be allowed future console integration. In that case there hasnt been a chance to mitigate with any of the console giants on plans that would actually decide whether to support an unfinished 3rd party product and how much, into their fundamental marketing and system infrastructure, or decide create VR tech themselves. How do you convince the Sonys Microsofts and Nintendo's not to research a product they could look at and probably decide to develop and produce themselves in a couple years in order to amend new profit strings from meanwhile only placate specifically to their console gamer market like they normally do? This is what they would want.

Atm simply put no high end or indie developer who is making a game now is anxious enough to start making their VR enabled games for consoles at this early stage. Safest bet now for enthusiasts of VR technology and the like has been to keep pushing the authenticity and limits of design for new products and/or games they create with the technology squarely focused on the pc which in of itself advances with creators symbiotically every year under the speed of light. So for the foreseeable future you will no doubt begin to see VR aimed games be perfected on the pc first before we see a transition to consoles.

I will unsub if CCP launches it on consoles before PC. PS4 is confirmed too weak for Oculus Rift (which needs 1080P *AND* 60 FPS, of which PS4 can only choose onne or the other, Sony rumored to be making an over-priced 720P knock-off).