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Is this ever going to beta?
Stormfire962
Member UncommonPosts: 65
This game has been in development since 2006. Is it ever going to happen? Or is it dead?
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The absolute worst genre to get into without a large budget is the sci fi one.You are almost building 3 different games in one in an industry where most struggle to make one game inside the package.
You need space and flying ships,then you need planets then you need a world on each planet lol.Then you need space stations as well.Make no mistake CCP and their Eve is nothing to brag about,it is like 20% of an actual game missing tons of components of what would be considered a triple a game.CCP was lucky to get in first with no competition,there is no market left for this genre unless you can do it right and remove the players from Eve.
I have said for a long time,if you can't do the genre justice you should not even attempt it.What ends up happening is you get a whole game of half ass content and design.We can't even get developers of the easier genre "Fantasy" to give us all the components.
Look at SWTOR not a bad game but by most standards an average game and that is a 200 million dollar budget.It might seem like a good idea staying away from the saturated Fantasy market but it is a safer bet than trying to invade CCP's domain.Anyone that would play a half ass Eve type game is already playing it,so where are you going to get your player base from?
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It's scheduled to go into beta at the same time as the new Xsyon game, Citadel of Sorcery, Greed Monger, and Pathfinder Online
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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