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Dust 514: OMG F2P MMOFPS
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Dust 514? That's that PS3 exclusive first person shooter that links into Eve somehow right? Yawn, right? Wrong, because CCP Games announced today that it's going to be free to play. It's launching this summer, I think we should team up and get our shoot on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfT_caE1KHQ
Official site here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfT_caE1KHQOfficial site here.
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fuck this game. it lead, by proxy, to many very good people loosing their jobs.
Now if only I had a PS3...
I mean, I don't have a PS3 (and won't buy it for this) but I like the initial concept.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
If my limited and uninformed knowledge of the game development industry is anywhere close to accurate, they'll probably lose their jobs anyway.
The beauty of Eve is it has given us a great window into free market economies.
At least they added a Ship Spin counter back into EVE, that was something.
As for Dust, I do not hold high hopes for it, based on prior experience with CCP.
I am hoping this can be mitigated by continuously electing Mittens as King of Space.
If not, we should get some good laughs out of it.
let's be fair, it's only partly because of this game that all those people lost their jobs. the EVE subscriber revolt over the fact that CCP tried charging $80 for a virtual monocle that nobody would ever see played a big part, too.
seriously, what genius decided that releasing a subscription-based MMOFPS on the PS3 was a good idea? let alone one that was heavily tied into a subscription-based MMO spreadsheet sim on a completely different platform?
don't forget that none of the people that actually made all of the horrible decisions lost their jobs or had their pay cut
this:
actually that was pretty over-hyped as the dip only lasted a month or two and a healthy portion of subs came back. make no mistake, Eve online prints money. The problem came in with gross-mismanagement of the Dust and Eve-expansion teams.
Dust is done almost entirely by the asian studio, with little to no oversight. This resulted in multiple-month projects being scrapped. There is a reason that Dust has been hyped for years and years with nothing to show, and it isn't because the game is ground-breaking.
Eve on the otherhand is jealously lorded over by the iceland studio who only know how to do one thing, fight in space. They spent a years budget in trying to make humanoid figures walk in a platform and delivered the captains quarters, thats as far as they could go.
Meanwhile, CCP buys Whitewolf and begins WoD, which really was groundbreaking and unique. Problem is, it was the new kid, so it got scrapped, along with a LOT of outstanding employees.
Those that survived got moved to Eve and Dust. Not because Dust was going to be great, but because they've already spent so much, they couldn't just shoot it in the head as easily as WoD.
just
goddamnt
so eff this
I'm skeptical that mittens can do anything positive as csm chair (or that anyone as csm chair can do anything positive, for that matter.) Of course, there's only so much that can be done about the fact that Eve is a great mmo with a kinda bad "target/action/rotate ability" game attached as an afterthought.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Couldn't have said it better myself. This game is delaying WoD.
It can rot for all I care.
Maybe all those folks that lost their jobs should just
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.