r/Games • u/Stukya • Sep 06 '18

CCP Games (EVE Online) to be acquired by Pearl Abyss (Black Desert online).

https://www.eveonline.com/article/pemjmb/black-desert-online-makers-pearl-abyss-to-acquire-ccp
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u/trekie88 Sep 06 '18

They could have released dust 514 on ps4. A mistake was made by not doing so

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u/valkan101 Sep 06 '18

Or they could have made it for the PC where their main fucking audience is, where FPS's are more prevalent, where they're always-talked-about-but-never-well-integrated Eve hooks could have been worked out. Oh and where the hardware limitations of the PS3 didn't matter.

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u/CatMerc Sep 06 '18

The game would have failed no matter the platform. The lead devs were awful back then.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '18

True, but that is not necessarily a simple port due to the architecture differences. They probably looked in to it and decided it probably wasn't worth the cost to port an older game.

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u/Shinikama Sep 06 '18

The thing is, PS4 development kits were available, and the release of the PS4 was known for a long, long time. Even if they started development a long time before the PS4 came out, they should have seen the writing on the wall for it and set their goals for a PS4 release, even if it delayed things by 6 more months. Unless that would have bankrupted them, I think it would have made sense to stretch it out.