Comments on: CCP’s Dust 514: PC/Console Overlap In Space

By: pissed

pissed — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:49:12 +0000

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.

By: ry

ry — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:55:47 +0000

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 :(

By: Sludge

Sludge — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:21:25 +0000

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!

By: James-ohoh!

James-ohoh! — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:25:54 +0000

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.

By: cag.oldglory

cag.oldglory — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:21:53 +0000

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.

By: no

no — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:26:12 +0000

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).

By: Joras

Joras — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:11:00 +0000

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.

By: dr_demento

dr_demento — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:19 +0000

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*.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:21:14 +0000

yesyesyesyesyesyesyes

By: nill

nill — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:37:16 +0000

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?

By: anon

anon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:03:52 +0000

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

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:07:24 +0000

RC-1290 Uh, you have a good idea now go turn it into a keyboard and sell it and you’ll be ungodly rich.