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Re: September 1

People will come back, make an effort to build something, cir and co will come knock it down and then we can take old yeller out back and put em down for good.

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Funny, do the people really think someone is actually release something as promised? Hardly any game does that now as they all have unwritten rule to 'release when it's done' but keep moaning and losing your precious time if you have to.

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K0sh wrote:

Funny, do the people really think someone is actually release something as promised? Hardly any game does that now as they all have unwritten rule to 'release when it's done' but keep moaning and losing your precious time if you have to.

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Stranger Danger wrote:

Look when the game had 500+ players online at once, gamma was needed ASAP.

Now?  Well it wont matter.  Sure a few people will come back, some of the steam EA players who never got to experience gamma will be interested...but after a month it will be back to the norm.

Agreed.

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The game needs, more than anything, PVE.  Most players are pve players, even the pvp players spend more time playing with pve than pvp...very few people have the patience and tolerance to monitor the game world for potential pvp and stay in standby mode...

So if zoom and crew are going to pull the steam-greenlight strategy, which is to turtle up and program for more than a year while the influx thins out...this time can we come back in a year and a half to some significant pve content rather than say a tutorial?

Flesh out pve.  Give something for corps and players to do that doesn't involve pvp...that is fun, and rewarding...
Then when pve is fleshed out, you can do your round two of the two year gamma wipe and reset and bring it back more like it was the first time you wiped and reset gamma.

Agreed.  They're already more than 2 years late on a PvE revamp, that was promised after the first Gamma iteration.

Stranger Danger wrote:

Id like to see this game go live on steam (no early access) with gamma

I'm terrified they'll do this.  If they go "full release" after Gamma is re-released it will be the total death of the game.  There, as you said, will be a influx of people again but with no PvE they will all leave and the DEVs will have squandered their absolute last windfall (so far, they've fumbled rock-paper-shotgun, monocle gate, Steam EA, EVE DDoS - least of them but something) of new players.

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