Well, atleast we can say our EVE bucks have provided experience to a bunch of VR specialists that will hopefully find employment in more suitable companies.
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This 
just hit me, well they could actually give a try to walking in station and CQ with this VR set. That would be fun to spin my [put the name here] Claymore in hangar while Iām wearing VR 
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VR, 3D, Smellovision
Its all just balls innit
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That illustrates a pretty good point. Thereās an equivalency between CQ and VR. They are both completely useless, and yet people just canāt shut up about either of them. And that also makes your suggestion a bizarrely good idea. If youāre going to waste time and money on pointless dead end projects, you might as well waste it on the same project so that when it all gets thrown out, it gets thrown out together.
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There is a difference between Valkyre and CQ but you are ok to think differently. I was talking from the point of trying to save some money and minimize losses and more importantly keep folks from VR dept.
There are fundamental problems with both systems. Problems that wonāt be overcome. The main problem with CQ is that it would be adding a completely new game to EVE, one that would have no financial payoff for the costs. Which also happens to be part of the problem with VR (high development costs with no paying audience.) The other problem with VR is that itās not a good platform for games. It has promise for movie/TV experiences, but thatās about it. Experiences that you ārideā rather than āwalk.ā
Bollocks
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2017.11.12
We dont need killer apps just as we dont need overpriced plastic facehugger. 
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This is more than just VR Devs, CCP gutted their community team. CCPās had at least some communication with its player base but now that is gone. All that is left is CCP Falcon who is just a PR Shill and CCP Guard who is the talk show host. The DEVs who over saw player events is gone (LogiBro) who aid the Localization volunteers is gone (Phantom and Leeloo), and kept the communication channels open with the russian player base is gone (Leeloo.) You already seeing the impact with the player volunteer groups becoming less active. I know some people will say good riddance to the ISD but they were a vital link in the communications chain. With the gutting of the CT team, I would start jumping ship.
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Well thatās twice in my life I have seen VR make a comeback and fail. Maybe VR Headsets and games need continued investment in order to make them more popular. Perhaps the VR boom has not started yet and the gaming industry isnāt ready for it.
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Not to forget:
Phantom also published the weekly summaries of what happened within eve (and -
events within - the community) and volunteers
Logibro managed fan sites, Thunderdome
Shadowcat did german localization and coordinated localization of all (officially supported) languages.
And probably some further tasks that are now dead (until handled by someone else soon)
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I doubt they will be handed off to anyone. There simply is not enough people to develop the game and run the community stuff at the same time. To much work for individual devs before this eye gouge. I can only imagine how bad it would be now.
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Iām sure they could have afforded some continued research on VR.
Maybe VR should be looked on as more of an add-on to existing games. Gran Turismo VR mode? Perhaps Eve with a VR version isnāt too bad an idea for those who want to immerse themselves. perhaps you could do VR while travelling or PVPāing.
Perhaps CCP could have kept a small skeleton team focused on some VR for Eve, Walking in Stations/Planets in VR might have been ok.
CCP has 1 PC title, I strongly think their next endeavour must be a PC title. PC games have always been best, Iāve always loved the immersive type of game.
As someone mentioned many of CCPās other titles have failed and closed due to the gaming market being difficult. Eve is actually an Interesting universe, I thought CCP would make a command and conquer/planetary management type game. The decent fun little games where you gather resource, research and build tech, then fight others are pretty good. The player could set planetary tax so citizens are happy, they could manage public facilities, and have war budgets just in-case they are attacked by other players.
TLDR: CCP should make a command and conquer type game. āEve Online: Civilisationsā
Not when they already have so much other games in development. VR apparently didnt made so much to put the gains into further development. I think investors have made the decision to abandon it. Too small return on investment probably.
As someone mentioned many of CCPās other titles have failed and closed due to the gaming market being difficult. Eve is actually an Interesting universe, I thought CCP would make a command and conquer/planetary management type game. The decent fun little games where you gather resource, research and build tech, then fight others are pretty good. The player could set planetary tax so citizens are happy, they could manage public facilities, and have war budgets just in-case they are attacked by other players.
TLDR: CCP should make a command and conquer type game. āEve Online: Civilisationsā
There is already Starborne. It was made by former CCP employees.
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SO MY DREAMS OF PLAYING ACTUAL EVE IN āVRā ARE DEAD?
You can play it using virtual desktop. Its like you would have a big screen in front of you.
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Thanks for this, I didnāt know this was a thing but now Iām going to check it out. Itās in Alpha right now as far as I can tell.
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If there is one new product CCP should be pursuing, its EVE 2.0.
Ive never understood why/how they dont see that.
Its so blatantly obvious and right in-front of their noses.
If they handle it right, they are set for another 10-20 years, easy.
Few, if any, game developers have such an opportunity.
Im 36.
If CCP can deliver an EVE 2.0, I hope to be playing it well into my retirement years, and Im sure much of EVE community feels the same.
Even when Im finally croaking out on a hospital bed, I hope to still be playing it,
They need to future-proof their core product, and its zealously dedicated player base.
People will keep playing EVE until the day it dies, or they die themselves.
How can they not understand this.
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Because we are already onto EVE 10.54 or something? Even if we count it by server tech we are onto EVE 3.
MMOās donāt do well when they try and ditch their entire previous game and all the progression, then release a new product and force everyone to start from scratch.
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