And once we've released it, we'll continue developing it, adding more and more content and features. Around summer next year, we'll release the game. T.F.: Around the end of the year, we'll be starting with the private, behind-closed-doors trials where we'll start to test things and build things up, and we'll continue to add more content. If you create one within Dust, it's the same as creating one within EVE.ĭIG: How much more work would you say is left before Dust is completed? The equivalent in other games would be a guild. The players within the EVE clients and the Dust clients on the PlayStation 3 can talk to each other on the local chat, and be in the same corporation. The connection isn't just a meta-game connection it's a literal connection.
You can be orbiting a planet within the EVE client, and you'll see the icons and markers that are representing battles that are going on on that surface at that particular moment in time.Īs a corporation, you can also provide support. Both games are running on the same server, in the same universe, in real time. We thought the console platform would allow us to expand our audience.ĭIG: So will Dust still speak to EVE players? Is there a common narrative thread, or sensibility, that they can pick up on? We often hear a lot of people are very interested in our universe, but they simply don't have the time to be able to sit down and really get into a hugely complex MMO. We want to be able to offer this incredible universe to people that perhaps don't have the time to be able to sit down and learn all of these complex mechanics. EVE is a fantastic game, but even we'll admit it is quite complicated and has a very steep learning curve.
T.F.: For us, this was about bringing the universe of EVE to a new market, to a new kind of player. DIG sat down with producer Tom Farrer to discuss PlayStation 3 exclusivityĪnd some of the technical challenges of integrating a PS3 game into the PC game experience.ĭIG: Why was it decided not to make Dust a PS3 exclusive, instead of bringing it to PC?
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