EVE General Discussion

Mind you all this is a game the entire industry is looking at.

I wished advertisers would get off thier posteriors and make potential customer look at it as well.

Annoys me to no end when I talk about eve to other people and they go eve? whats that? where world of warcraft or dota is thier extent of the known mmo universe.

Yeah.

Personally I know far more people that play console games (usually in addition to PC games) whom are over 20 than teenagers or younger.

SOE took over Planetside, before SOE took over Planetside the game was brilliant, shortly after they took over and ruined the game i quit playing. Im going to give PS2 the benefit of the doubt.

I can just feel that the game wont live up to expectations and gunna be a flop.

What i mean by the "kids play consoles" comment is, you have way more of them playing consoles than you do playing pc games. Whens the last time you had an organised fleet of kids playing Eve?

The mentality wont carry over as others have pointed out. One of the reasons i dont play console FPS' online, i mean there are some ******** people in Eve i know that, but holey hell, they couldnt candle up against the things iv witnessed from console retards.

If dust becomes a smash hit and does one of the predicted side effects (increase eve subs) then they may port it to pc.

FPS on a console sucks ass and I'll never play Dust because of that. There are, however, hundreds of thousands of people who actually like console shooter mechanics.

I'm guessing Dust will have a great launch. Will it hang on to a loyal player base? I don't know. And neither does anyone else here. That's up to CCP and their ability to get into the head of the average console gamer. They've a good job of keeping the PC end of things up and running, so I will guess that Dust will do just fine.

Mr Epeen

TBH I havent heard of a PC shooter in forever???

Think the last one I played was Mech warrior 2. Evertyhing else since then has been mostly a Console shooter in disguise.

Take that back Ghost Recon 1 was more recent.

Hopefully the mouse and keyboard support will mitigate that to a large extent.

Hey, he's only saying console FPS are not his cup of tea... but still believes CCP has an excellent shot at making a successful game in DUST.

I, personally, can live with that.

Speaking without any credentials whatsoever:

In modern shooters, lone-wolf playstyle often has the most consistent rewards. There are plenty of games that try to steer the other way. MAG, Team Fortress 2, and Tribes: Ascend, for some modern examples.

Not heavily advertising DUST might be a good opening move. It's already guaranteed a small starting pool from EVE players. The first few months can be like a public "post-beta" test. Once it has an established community, with initial bug-fixes, balancing, and feature iteration, then heavy marketing might begin. I guess we'll see. I intend to play regardless. Besides, it's free now. Awesome!

I don't see Planetside 2 as a threat to DUST. Different platforms, and (slightly) different goals.

DUST on PC would probably be easy from a code standpoint (Unreal Engine is pretty flexible), but I want to see CCP come up with a phenomenal, industry-shaking anti-cheat solution before it happens. Kill/death ratio won't be the only thing on the line...

@My Neutral Toon: Be sure and upload to YouTube when you fire orbital lasers on one screen that hit on the other.

If by, "before SOE took over," you mean, "during the beta," then yes, I can agree. So much potential, so many obvious faults in the balancing, so many teammates desperate to pick up that grenade that "fell out" of the launcher. Or take tea under my tank.

IF CCP can grab enough attention among the squad-oriented types they do have a chance. I'll be interested to see how that goes, though, as I've not run into nearly as much of what I'd call "organized" groups on the consoles as when I was more heavily involved in PC games. Though, I've not noticed as much real organization there recently either, at least not on that big a scale... everything seems aimed at groups of 2-4 (even BF3 hasn't struck me as doing much to promote actual team-oriented play... far less than 2 and even that I thought needed a good bit more if you weren't on a tightly-controlled server).