CCP scored another big victory in this year's MMORPG.com Players' Choice Awards when it took Game of the Year 2011. We recently talked with CCP's CEO Hilmar Petrusson and Head of Marketing David Reid about how the team plans to challenge all comers in 2012 with more EVE, Dust 514 and World of Darkness. Read on!

David began by talking up FanFest in March. The event has become a staple for EVE fans all over the world and everyone flies into Iceland for the “Party at the Top of the World.” More importantly Dave said that DUST is hoping for a big summer launch and will be out there at shows this summer for players to get their hands on the game. DUST is on the PS3 Network and SONY will be working with CCP to get the game seen before launch. Dave also mentioned that EVE has its normal two expansions planned for the year and players have really gotten behind Crucible which took EVE back to the core values of the game (space!).

Read more of Garrett Fuller's World of Darkness: CCP’s Plans to Dominate 2012.

Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew and now I hear that it is in fact being given the love and care it deserves, with some small parts of the game being playable.

I'll be excercising cautious optimism on this title, whilst I wait for some gameplay footage this year.

World of darkness seems very interesting especially if they implement new gen ccp physics that we saw some years before.

Originally posted by Master10K

Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew

Same... last I heard this was firmly on the back burner because CCP admitted they were spread way too thin, and now it's to 'dominate'?

'Dominate'... I have a feeling they are going to regret using that word...

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by Master10K

Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew

 

Same... last I heard this was firmly on the back burner because CCP admitted they were spread way too thin, and now it's to 'dominate'?

'Dominate'... I have a feeling they are going to regret using that word...

If the "Walking in Stations" fiasco last year is any indication. It is pretty safe to say that WoD is still many years away for a possible release.

Originally posted by reignjuste

World of darkness seems very interesting especially if they implement new gen ccp physics that we saw some years before.

Yeah, I wonder if we'll see anything like this in WoD.

Originally posted by Master10K

Originally posted by reignjuste

World of darkness seems very interesting especially if they implement new gen ccp physics that we saw some years before.

Yeah, I wonder if we'll see anything like this in WoD.

Don't hold your hopes up. Being able to get that kind of detail in an MMO is still many years away.

Just fire up EVE Online and check out your Captains quarters. That is pretty much the detail and animation you can expect right now.

That video is just Technology demo. Nothing more.

Gameplay or vaporware lets go CCP! :) Itching for something new and different!

Originally posted by Master10K

Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew and now I hear that it is in fact being given the love and care it deserves, with some small parts of the game being playable.

I'll be excercising cautious optimism on this title, whilst I wait for some gameplay footage this year.

This is what I thougth as well. After all the noise and the round of layoffs last year, I thought they stated they had reduced the WoD team significantly. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong. Good for them if they can put out a solid game though.

edit: It must have been this I was thinking of: http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/article/2990/ccp-focuses-on-the-eve-universe. At the same time, there are WoD job postings on the CCP Game site so that might count for something...

Originally posted by JeroKane

Originally posted by Master10K

Originally posted by reignjuste

World of darkness seems very interesting especially if they implement new gen ccp physics that we saw some years before.

Yeah, I wonder if we'll see anything like this in WoD.

Don't hold your hopes up. Being able to get that kind of detail in an MMO is still many years away.

Just fire up EVE Online and check out your Captains quarters. That is pretty much the detail and animation you can expect right now.

That video is just Technology demo. Nothing more.

 

Even at the captains quarters the graphics are incredible.The character creation is incredible as well

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by Master10K

Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew

 

Same... last I heard this was firmly on the back burner because CCP admitted they were spread way too thin, and now it's to 'dominate'?

'Dominate'... I have a feeling they are going to regret using that word...

 

But then you aren't really CCP and more than likely will never reach their levels of acheivment, so even if they fail they will have tried. Can you say as much ?

I respect any of the big development houses trying to produce and deliver games for us to play. They won't regret anything.

CCP just laid off a ton of people (mostly from the Georgia offices that were working on WoD).

WoD is definitely on the backburner. (as it should be, working on Eve, Dust, and WoD full throttle was too much for CCP and Eve's quality suffered because of it.)

I feel sad for CCP, there a great bunch but looks like they are stuck whit some crazy idea's that a PS3 shooter whitout being known in the ps3 community  could be a huge succes and have the same apeal on pc and its players aswell. to me this looks like a typical manager error were someone whit a golden voice whitin the company managed to press the idea.

Could be wrong but doubt the game will do well. WoD if marketed right could have a Huge following but sofar theres little to no knowlidge in the general mmo consumer population about it. it needs some Big ass marketing.

As for Eve online, that game has reached its end asfar I view it, game mechanical expansions have put on hold for more of the same old, they made the choice to be a narrow space simulation instead of a living world (well ..galaxy), more ships, and more ships..and some  bigger guns .. and a other way to travel true space to do the same thing whit those ships just so you can build more ships to shoot other ships.  

 

wish them luck, just hope for them they keep developing as gamers and not as managers else they will end up on the big pile of junk developers players wont trust anymore.

Originally posted by reignjuste

Originally posted by JeroKane

Originally posted by Master10K

Originally posted by reignjuste

World of darkness seems very interesting especially if they implement new gen ccp physics that we saw some years before.

Yeah, I wonder if we'll see anything like this in WoD.

Don't hold your hopes up. Being able to get that kind of detail in an MMO is still many years away.

Just fire up EVE Online and check out your Captains quarters. That is pretty much the detail and animation you can expect right now.

That video is just Technology demo. Nothing more.

 

Even at the captains quarters the graphics are incredible.The character creation is incredible as well

 

Captain quarters graphics are worse than those in character creator which are worse than in Engine tech demos (one with lady in dress that would match WoD goth 'style').

Besides what is shown in captain quarters clearly shows that in current state this engine is nowhere near state to be used for locations with doznes or more people.  One person in static enviroment with nerfed graphics and performance is bad.

Now add dozens of ppl + psysics + dynamic enviroment (animations , combat , etc) = ~ 5 fps on best rigs.

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WoD is YEARS from release.

I say 2014 IF they release it as SMALL unfinished game that they will build upon later (like EvE was at beggining) - 2016 if they want to release polished , feature-rich ,etc game.

Originally posted by Isane

Originally posted by Vesavius

Originally posted by Master10K

 Huh? So first I hear about World of Darkness being developed by a skeleton crew

Same... last I heard this was firmly on the back burner because CCP admitted they were spread way too thin, and now it's to 'dominate'?

'Dominate'... I have a feeling they are going to regret using that word...

But then you aren't really CCP and more than likely will never reach their levels of acheivment, so even if they fail they will have tried. Can you say as much ?

Why do I have to 'say as much'?

I'm not the one using words like 'dominate' with regards to a billion dollar industry.

   Don't see how CCP could dominate anything. After what 6+ years they are still working on "Flying in space" in Eve. One would think that would be the core mechanic of their game and something they should have figured out by release or least the first year..

 Dispite the spin CCP puts on it WoD won't be out for some time. Drink the cool-aid if you want.

World of Darkness... I've waited so long... and continue to wait patiently.

I would love to see WoD come to fruition. I am skeptical we will see it this year, or even next, or, for that matter, it would not surprise me at all to see it until 2015.

That said, if well done with the qualities CCP could bring to the table, it could be cool as hell.

WoD is still the game I'm most looking forward to of all MMORPGs currently in development, so it's good to hear that it's still a going concern.

Unfortunately, if the "Walking in Stations" tech from EvE is similar to what their developing for WoD, it still likely has a very long way to go.

WoD, love the IP, hate that CCP is developing it.

Let's see... $70 for a monocle... so that must mean if you want to clothe your character in WoD, it'd be easier to shop Rodeo Drive in Cali than pay for in-game clothing from CCP with its Macro Transaction model.