VR be gone....

If it's true, it seems that CCP is removing all VR development. Talk about cutting your losses. CCP were "so" into VR development and now it's just going. That news makes me even more convinced that the change of Eve Valkyrie to be a non VR game was an attempt to get customers; Get customers so they could milk any who stayed in the game before letting it die a slow and lingering death a la Dust 514... Cash grab CCP at it again. Steam stats are not kind to the game. Who knows how long they will leave it running, I doubt it will be over a year. The longer they dont' develop it the more players will look elsewhere. Says a lot about CCP when the only game that lasts is Eve Online and that's a constant knife edge balancing act. Not that they learn from any of it at all....
Makes me look at the Eve Vegas presentation in a new light.

Eve Valkyrie.... You did it again CCP....

An old Eve buddy has been out of the game for a few years but had the opportunity to get into Eve Valkyrie on his PS4. This post is prompted by his bragging leader board screenshots. The last day I was chatting to him about the game I was notified with an e-mail about the game being available on steam.
I looked it up being somewhat optimistic but was immediately turned off when I saw all the DLC that was available... it was all for in game gold.
My friend said that it wasn't needed to play the game effectively as he hadn't paid for it and his top 10 US killboard ranking showed. That eased my mind again. I dont' mind microtransactions, I hate in my face transactions.


I still think for the game that it is it's too pricey, even if Gunjack is given away free.

Not that I'd buy it, I dont' have a VR headset for my pc. It did get me thinking about it. By the time I would get a headset the game may be cheaper and I'd have a go...

Then I remembered... There was a part of the Eve collectors edition that gave free Eve Valkyrie stuff, let me check that out!

What a mistakah to makeah.....

I've said a lot to bemoan my view of CCP's handling of the Mystery code. I could link it all again but nah I'll remind you afresh and in short order:

CCP said:

CCP never really did it and CCP Falcon inherited the mess and was less than enthusiastic for it saying:

 Leaving the community to this day saying:

So here I am today owner of two mystery codes pondering the game and the free Eve Valkyrie item.
The item is :

Oh goodie! A free fighter to take into space and blow stuff up in and it would be all special and stuff(can you tell I'm saying things sarcastically now!).

Still a free item is a free item. So I was wondering what the game community thought of the free ship in the game. There should be Eve collector edition gamers in Valkyrie right.... Yup there sure are.... But the free ship never made it into the game.....
https://forums.evevalkyrie.com/t/regarding-the-templar-mk-ii-prototype/3749/4 
&
https://forums.evevalkyrie.com/t/first-decade-collectors-edition/2717/2

So another thing to add to the list of CCP screwing over customers.

Yes, there is a lot that can be said about game development, delays and workloads, but when CCP does not say anything about the likes of the free fighter or the mystery code when they should have been ahead of the curve, it points to a lessening of the trustworthiness, reliability and integrity of the company and the employees that company puts forward as the face of the issues.

Not to mention it p*ss's people like me off. I bought into the product thinking I would be part of the games great future not to mention the broader CCP game family. What a dupe.

Yea....... CCP you did it again, you f**ked with me. I won't be buying Eve Valkyrie.

Oculus Rift....

The Oculus Rift had it's initial pre-purchase launch date. At €500 not including shipping that is a hefty amount of cash.
My current pc is on the lowest end of running an Oculus. My gaming laptop is way more powerful but I'd rather not use the Oculus with that. That's just me.
I'll be getting a new pc before I get a rift so that will be at it's latest a year away. plenty of time for hardware improvements and price drops. Time will tell.
One thing is for sure, I'm in no hurry to get shafted by CCP just to play Eve Valkyrie sooner rather than later. 

There is a good write up here from The ancient gaming noob from the view of playing Eve Valkyrie.

And a youtube review form Totalbuiscuit on the hardware itself: