Showing posts with label Sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sci-fi. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

SWTOR devs attempt to balance the Force through nerfs

SWTOR


Are you eager for a glimpse of Star Wars: The Old Republic's future? It's not only you, I think lots of people want to know some or little information about the game's future.However, the devs have asked that questions focus more on current features in the game, as in many cases they cannot give firm details about what's coming up in SWTOR.
 
This wasn't an oversight, the devs revealed, but "a purposefully designed weakness in their ability arsenal" to keep them balanced in the game -- especially in PvP.

"Balance" was an answer to another issue as well, specifically the nerfs to some of the healing specs. Lead Combat Designer Georg Zoeller realized that folks were going to rail against it, but the team thought it was necessary: "I know trying to 'sell' a downwards adjustment (AKA nerf) to anyone affected is like selling the need for a tax increase to people. When you are on the receiving end of it, you're not going to be happy about it."

Other questions revolved around rage timers, looping the game's music, cross-faction communication within the same guild, and legacy system specifics.





Wednesday, February 22, 2012

CCP touts EVE growth, considers IPO

If you're in need of cheap instant eve isk, EVE Item, EVE powerleveling, EVE 60 day Game Time card, please check on swagvault.com.

Despite the commonly held belief that 2011 was a disastrous year for CCP and EVE Online, the firm recently told TechCrunch that its sci-fi sandbox game brought in $66 million in revenue last year.

The website reports that EVE's revenue features a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, and the title has also generated $300 million in total revenue since its 2003 launch. Interestingly, the article avoids all mention of 2011's Monoclegate brouhaha and the resulting player protests that led CCP to refocus its development plans. It also paints a rosy picture of New Eden's future, and CCP head honcho Hilmar Petursson says an IPO is a possibility.

"We want to be ready for an IPO from a policy standpoint," he explains. "We're quite a substantial company, so we're thinking, OK, what is the next step?"

Friday, October 21, 2011

CCP have the opinion of that EVE is a healthy subscriber-based game



EVE Online - space station
 

EVE Online will have a brilliant future. According to a report saying that GameSpot has a new interview with EVE Online lead designer Kristoffer Touborg, and though it's a bit dated (it was conducted at last week's GDC, and obviously prior to yesterday's layoff announcement), it still features some interest nuggets relating to EVE and its immediate future.

Touborg confirms what all the company dev blogs have been saying lately, "EVE's flying-in-space elements are once again the top priority", in terms of CCP's bread-and-butter spaceship gameplay,. "The number of people working on things related to flying in space has probably tripled, so we are ready to start delivering a load of content," he says.

This is a deeply discussed interview indeed. Since they have touched on EVE's payment model, and specifically, why CCP has resisted the urge to jump on the free-to-play bandwagon. "We are a really healthy, subscriber-based game," Touborg says. "Does that mean we will be a subscriber-based game in five or 10 years? Maybe not, but as it currently stands, we have 400,000 subscribers, and there's really no reason to turn that bucket upside-down." 
 
If you need to buy EVE ISK, EVE item, EVE time card, or EVE power leveling, take swagvault.com into your consideration. The site will save you much money you never had before.