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CCP Announces Console MMO Tie-In To the EVE Universe
Hork_Monkey writes "CCP Games, developer of the popular MMO EVE Online, has announced a new game called Dust 514. Building on the EVE universe, this game will provide planetary combat from an RTS and FPS perspective, with significant impact into the space combat aspects of EVE Online. Love or hate EVE Online, this appears to be an innovative way to expand the overall universe by catering to a different gamer audience. A video with a trailer and further explanation was posted from GDC Europe."
I was going to put in a point but thought I chime in.
The problem is that you CAN trust your local corp. Its not like they fold over night and most people in one are honest. The problem is that once you are IN a corp, there are so many meinal things to do. Camp a damn jump gate for 6 hours. Act as rat killer for the miners or sit there with a mouse and mine. Act as truck driver for said mine. Even using some of the automated towers still requires this annoying manual process.
But Eve is not the only one with the grind, as you know. Eve says you are just one of the cogs and buy insurance like everyone else. Like the real world you find a "job" You train in miner to be a miner, recon to be a zone watcher. All these "jobs" are menial and boring. But, I hate to say this is the problem with ALL PVP SYSTEMS. All games out there make you to be the "special one" The one who will win the war or save the universe. (I ran into this in the beta of Fallen Earth when I started. Your a speical "clone"? What are the other players?) Any job you take, out side of this, is just to progress to main story line.
War is all about waiting and dicking around and about 10 minutes of fighting. WoW had to introduce the battlegrounds to give players a way to play PvP at no cost. Even Wintergrasp limits you to every few hours to make sure enough people join up so its "fun" There were no wars in Ultima Online, just a few assassins once in a while. Even major battles in EVE lasts only about 30 minutes.
EVE designed a system where if you want to keep what you got, you have to protect it yourself. You spend all those grinding hours working for your corp and you want to protect your work. Your not fighting for the "fun" of it. Your not fighting because "your the one". Your fighting because you did a time sink of 6 months into this corp and you don't want a bunch of god damn pirates taking out your control tower out when eveyones off to dinner (again). In EVE, you fight to protect what you got. Its quite possible the most raw political simulators created in the mmorg world.
I just wish there WAS a way to reach out and throttle the players who say "fuck it" and quit though. Especially the ones with the higher rights in corps:P
You know that friend of yours who has different music tastes than you, who will go on for hours about how his favorite musicians don't lip-sync, how they write their own songs, etc? You know, the guy who everyone rolls their eyes at and avoids at parties (lest he go on a long rant about how crappy pop music is today and how the obscure shit he likes is so superior in every way)? You know that smug douchebag?
Well that's what it's like to listen to a PC snob.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.