Eve Online FPS....

EVE Online shooter cancelled to make way for a new EVE Online shooter; An article of things said before.

Here's my gut reaction and rant....

I've played Dust 514; Been interested(if not enthusiastic) in every attempt from CCP to get a shooter 'made'. Project Legion, Project Nova. Each a variation on an FPS New Eden theme.

My initial gut reaction to CCP stopping and starting another FPS is 'meh' with a side of snarky comment.

The problem(in my view) with them doing an FPS is that the playerbase they are trying to pander to isn't based on Dust 514. It's based on a new playerbase that they can cash in on, while also taking as much of the old playerbase as they can. Not for love of a game, continuation of a playerbase or the universe they are in. Just for the cash business.

The reason I started Dust 514 was because of the free items in the 10th anniversary collectors edition box..... #Mysterycode...... That's a whole other story I've waffled about before. Anyway.
Being Eve based it hooked me. Like a lot about CCP and Eve it promises a lot more than it delivers.

CCP devs have tried to maintain the Dust playerbase and have previously maintained a connection. The Devs are or were dedicated as much to the community as the universe. They'd take comments that help... BUT, CCP has a very bad habit of getting blinkered. Overriding the plain in their face facts. They will take simple idea A with simple idea B and before you know it, it's mutated out of control in their own little weird echo chamber bubble world, machinations of greatness. OR the very reverse that's then shown to a small packed room at fanfest, who are aghast at what they see. The players of the old game and universe enthusiasts gasp in horror and have 1 million practical questions about it. Then as aghast as the players, the Devs recoil in horror and fear at what they have done/decided/chosen due to the reactions in the room. It would be funny if it hadn't have happened.

I'm no stunning linguist, I'm here to waffle. I just can't/don't get CCP's thinking. It blows my mind how detailed yet unfocused they can be with such large projects.

If Dust 514 was still active I'd be there. Instead I got into Battlefield 1. If CCP had ported Dust to PC and made some enhanced changes over a year for it to 'work properly' it could still be a thing. Just look at Warframe or even Planetside 2. I mean come on .... PLANETSIDE 2 is still a thing!

Frustration abounds, but it's CCP so no surprise.

I don't think CCP actually knows what it wants, beyond profits and what it thinks it's belief in New Eden as a franchise universe. There has been so much effort, so much work, development, planning and attrition that the FPS game they think players want has been lost in a whirlpool of attempting to most profit them.

Maybe there's something in the trace elements that remain, CCP may actually be doing work that is worth it and will result in a great shooter/universe experience.

The quotes in the article have me thinking development has gone back to what sounds like a Project Legion like game. That could be a good thing(How they even went from Legion's planet/space combat to a Nova deathmatch arena shooter is beyond me). Valkyrie syndrome perhaps.

The more things change the more they stay the same. The last paragraph of that article is telling. CCP back in their mutation bubble echo chamber.

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But don't expect news on this new project any time soon. Kellion also said CCP Games would refrain from revealing projects too early in the future. "We want to show you rather than tell you how we have evolved this concept and we’re looking forward to doing so when the time comes to present this concept as a fully-fledged game."

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Time will tell. Again.