EDIT: No platforms are confirmed for this other than “console”, we’ll get more info as soon as possible.
So CCP have revealed just what the mysterious Dust 514 actually is: a console action MMO featuring “first-person shooter and RTS-style gameplay”, set in the Eve Online universe. Disappointing, eh? But there’s an intriguing twist: PC and console games will be able to interact, and the faction warfare map that gets decided in space on the PC, will also decide the map in the console game. There’s more, as Gamasutra reports:
Players in the PC MMO can “fund mercenaries and give them goals” in the console title. CCP’s Petursson hope that “these communities will meld over time”, expecting specific Dust 514 corporations to start with, but eventually social structures that bridge across the two. He quipped of the new game and the relationship between the two titles: “While the fleet does the flying, the infantry does the dying.”
So PC gamers get to be the space-bound commanders of the console foot-soldiers… That isn’t going to help our elitism complex, is it?
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I love this idea. I like the thought of being involved with the EVE universe but without the huge commitment of EVE – which I can no longer meet. It would be super if I could be a grunt on the “ground” supporting my old buddies still flying.
@PsychoPomp :
You’re right, for me personally, its not worth playing because i don’t have a console – and i’m not planning to get one anytime soon either.
It’s not because i hate consoles, i just don’t feel the need to get one.
I also played quite a few of the games you listed, and yes they are nice indeed.
Reading “console only” from a company like CCP just rips open that old Bungie wound.
As soon as the pc gets keyboards with pressure sensitive keys, pc has the best controls (mouse is exact location, pressure sensitivity to exact speed). So why has nobody made them?
I’ve started playing Eve recently (I did a couple of months of trial in 2006 without understing a thing about the game and hating it with my guts), so I’m particularly interested in this new Dust idea. I think long-time Eve players shouldn’t complain so much. Like any change in the game, the good players will adapt and learn how to manipulate the system.
RC-1290 Uh, you have a good idea now go turn it into a keyboard and sell it and you’ll be ungodly rich.
i’m worried about ccp, for a year eve has gotten only faux updates but they hired and hired to build a girls mmo and endwar console shooty
Heh, so it really is console only. Going from one of the conceptually most intriguing MMOs on the PC — with endless potential to diversify, and expand its userbase — and then to this, well that’s certainly disappointing.
Though hopefully it’s not the first step in gradually abandoning what they’ve started on the PC, who knows?
yesyesyesyesyesyesyes
Sounds great to me. The only kind of MMOG which really appeals is, essentially, a kind of Platonic-ideal lagless Planetside – but I love reading about EVE Online wars and politics and so forth. I’d love to be able to play as part of a war machine like that.
Theory: this is why this game must work. It would be *stunning*.
I imagine this is what’s come out of all the walking-in-stations work that they’ve done. At some point I’m sure the devs realized that FP is pretty boring without the S.
How is it selling out for them to go the Console route? Look, I’m a life-long PC gamer since I was about twelve. Twenty years later, I’ve come to realize that being a PC-only gamer is a great way to have plenty of free time BECAUSE NOBODY MAKES PC GAMES ANYMORE. When they do, it’s often just a shoddy port of a console game.
I could be stodgy and be a dick toward people with consoles while I bury my nose in a four year old copy of Civilization IV or a six year old game of Counter Strike: Source… or I could focus on games and not platforms and go out there and enjoy a lot of good content all over the place.
If I was developing a game, I’d want to try and MAKE MONEY and that’s pretty difficult to do on PC these days. Hell, for the first time in my life, I don’t even have a reason to upgrade my gaming rig, because there’s nothing I care about enough for the PC to bother with it (and this is after about fifteen years of building a new $2500 rig every twelve months).
I have been playing Eve off and on since it came out. I would a play a month or so, then stop. I am a sci-fi buff and really enjoy the concepts of Eve: player controlled, free market, MMO, politics etc but I do not enjoy “naval” games that much. So I was thinking to myself, what if CCP added an FPS component that was done just as well. I would resubscribe and be very happy. Then I read that CCP is doing just that, but is going console only. Very disappointing and too bad indeed.
All ballyho re: console vs. pc aside, this sounds awesome! Think of the possibilities – this is really just an extension of Eve to encorporate FPS action planet-side. Two different games interacting and affecting one another? Imagine a single persistent universe where you can play FP on the ground, build a city in a la RTS, or fly in a fleet as you can now in Eve.
This will be a GAME CHANGER for the industry…. no pun intended.
To me, the WASD and mouse-control method is too exact. I can’t play a computergame without feeling that it is just a nice surface and little more.
You can always Alt-Tab your way out to look something up on the net and the volume and other settings can too easily be changed.
Now, on my PS3 there is a constant feeling of heavyness behind the game and behind it all. A kind of cozy, sluggish feeling that makes me always prioritize buying games on console rather than PC.
You can easily snuggle down in your sofa or bed, in front of the TV, with just the remote, your controller and possibly a headset and you’re good to go if you game on console.
As opposed to a PC that is often placed in an uncomfortable position on a desk or in your lap where it kills your reproductive capabilities.
I think this is a good thing by CCP to do in the current gaming world were most companies are boring and puts their money on safe bets and tries to perfect the techniques they already know, leading to a standstill in the evolution of games in general. We do not have to cross the “uncanny valley” to make good games!
Great, I finally ragequit eve for possibly the last time and ccp go and grab my attention again with this. PLEASE. LET ME GO CCP :(
Not to happy, because I’m not planning to get a console and I won’t be able to help control the other side in the EVE universe. So I will be quitting EVE most likely.