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Funcom Reveals Dune Awakening, Its Upcoming Survival MMO Set In The Frank Herbert Universe | MMORPG.
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Funcom Reveals Dune Awakening, Its Upcoming Survival MMO Set In The Frank Herbert Universe | MMORPG.com
We've known a Dune survival game has been coming for a while now, but we finally have a name and a trailer. Dune Awakening was revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live, showing a look at how Funcom is presenting the Dune universe in this upcoming title.
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I wish they were aiming bigger than a survival shared world but it looks interesting nonetheless.
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Does it have to be a MMO? 50 people in a survival setting can be plenty.....
There's nothing massive about 50 people. Sorry, but that isn't even stretchable to fit the definition when this site doesn't cover Chiv 2 or any of those PvP titles that include 60+ players per match (correction, though this is arguably more ironic: they've covered Chiv 2, but specifically as part of their "Not so MMO" article).
Squad includes specific player roles and 100 players per match, but AFAIK this site doesn't cover that. They'll sure update us on the latest 10 player MOBAs, though! Consistency, what is it? The acronym is a meaningless punchline now, and the blame for that situation is shared by the folks covering this genre in a big way.
So, like maybe in 5 more yrs?
(Early Access is still a no go for me)
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It's as if no one reads before they write. Rise from survival to dominance in a vast and seamless Arrakis shared by thousands of players.
What next? Lord of the Rings by Disney?
Yuck.....
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Have to wait and see. If so will have to be a pass for me. Would much rather buy and own the games and what DLC's I want than have the free to play battlepass stuff.
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Just like to buy the whole game when I pay for a game. Not have to deal with free to play stuff. Always feels like I am renting a game to go that route. If I want to rent games I will go for something like game pass with Microsoft. Get much better value for your cash that way.
I was not a fan of spending time to build a settlement, log off for lunch and find I could not get back into the same server essentially losing all my progress until space on the server freed up, if it ever did.
Did anyone else enjoy this setup or also find it a put-off?
Or was I not understanding how to play? ?
With TSW this was the case right up to the relaunch. Then Funcom threw that ethos out the window, together with the grandmaster subs who got shafted, and then Funcom added a whole bunch of microtransactions in the "new" game. They basically attempted to re-sell a very inferior version of the same game to the same people - for new cash. The first couple of weeks the game jumped up to a couple of thousand players, but that was mostly players moved from TSW to SWL. And then it all dropped like a 16-ton weight.
Now the game is on life support - not quite dead, but feeling not at all well, just like Police Constable Pan-Am. I mean just look at this, it's pathetic where this game has ended up:
So in the end what Funcom achieved was prolonging the inevitable by a few months and pissing off hundreds of their most loyal supporters who helped launch the game with their $300 grandmaster pre-purchases and were probably the most active part of TSW's playerbase right to its very end.
So: thanks to Amiel and his incompetence, by now I think any of the old TSW grandmasters will not trust Funcom a single word and will think twice before giving them a single cent.
Of course none of this matters to some people, hell Blizzard is planning this with Diablo IV, so I mean I guess I should get used to it. NOPE!! Instead I will boycott any game that tries this as we saw that this will become when sub games adopted cash shops when F2P games started with them. I may not do anything as one person, but I gotta make a stand the only way I know how.