No they didn’t. They received a lot of poorly thought out ideas that would not translate into meaningful content. I have yet to see any idea that overcomes the fundamental problems with WIS content: the low population density in most of the game’s systems that minimizes the potential for meaningful interactions, and the “wow that’s so cool” factor wearing off to reveal nothing but a more awkward way of using existing gameplay features.
(And no, integration with an FPS like Dust doesn’t count. That’s an entirely separate game in the EVE universe, not an EVE expansion.)
The bottom line is that type of content would have brought in more players which would have been more money for CCP.
{citation needed}
Exactly what WIS feature is going to be so compelling that people will subscribe to EVE just to gain access to it?
New missions and or a overhaul of the old ones. Hopefully in a way that makes them all equally worth doing. Or close enough that the common favorites repeated after ever down time is no longer a thing.
Afk disconnect.
Change characters without logging all the way out.
Abyssal space only takes your ship when you run out of time and kick your pod out with implants intact.
Anything to expand PI with more planet detail or other planet operations.
It’s obvious you didn’t view any of the ideas that were presented for it. You have no facts to back up your biased opinion which is based purely on unfounded speculation.
Most Avatar gameplay is shooter based action, whether it’s first person or third person view. If DUST514 had been applied to the PC with access to it through ‘The Door’ in the Captains Quarters, this game would be in a much better place than it currently is. Just because you have some freakish phobia about Avatar gameplay doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have helped increase player log-in numbers.
I’ve viewed the ideas. All of them were empty speculation at best and I have yet to see anything that could plausibly work as a fully developed game feature. But if you’re so sure that these ideas exist how about you post some of them?
Most Avatar gameplay is shooter based action, whether it’s first person or third person view.
IOW, it wouldn’t work. A FPS requires a critical mass of players, balanced teams, etc, for it to be interesting. Throwing the occupants of a random EVE station into an FPS server would make a terrible FPS, even if everything else about the game was well designed and balanced.
If DUST514 had been applied to the PC with access to it through ‘The Door’ in the Captains Quarters, this game would be in a much better place than it currently is.
I agree that Dust would have been more successful as a PC game and releasing it as a console exclusive was a profoundly stupid decision. However, joining a Dust server through the door is not WIS, it’s a separate game that has a “play now” link in EVE. And it’s highly questionable that the Dust/EVE integration would have worked any better than it did in reality, as the population density and coordination problems were massive obstacles.
Just because you have some freakish phobia about Avatar gameplay doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have helped increase player log-in numbers.
I don’t have a phobia about anything, I have an objection to wasting developer time on dead-end features and enough intelligence to understand why WIS falls right into that category. In the real world development budgets are finite and WIS would have been a massive waste of resources that could be better spent elsewhere.
Based on this statement from you, I say you’re a liar and you haven’t viewed any of those threads. I believe you’re just posting anything in an attempt to validate your own biased opposition towards Avatar gameplay. Do your own google search.
As for everything else you posted, it’s just more bullsh*t speculation based on your narrow minded viewpoint against Avatar gameplay in Eve.
No, I am not going to dig through ancient threads and argue against every single idea ever suggested there in the hope that it satisfies your demands for “proof”. Do you even understand the concept of proving a negative and why it is impossible and unreasonable to demand? Clearly not or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
The simple fact here is that if you believe that viable WIS ideas exist then the burden of proof is on you to provide examples of those ideas. Either do it or get out of this thread.
This thread doesn’t belong to you. Also there is no burden of proof. Everybody has their own opinion about the topic and since you don’t like the topic, you frackin’ leave.
