Jumpgate Evolution

I just read the Q&A on jumpgate evolution community website. Seems like JGE is gonna be a pure PvP game, no mining, piracy and trading bettwen factions. The future players aren’t happy to hear that.

Here are some quotes:

Jumpgate Evolution is absolutely not a space simulator. It’s a mass market appeal, epic space combat MMO. Your ability as a pilot matters, but where classic took hours to get the basics of flight controls, JGE takes minutes. There is an economy, but it’s less like eBay and more like the Total War series. You’re not a space trucker, you’re a fighter pilot. JGE is a completely new animal. If you want a true space simulator, this may not be the game for you.

With the new focus of almost pure combat, is the plan to expand the game (trading/mining/pirating!/etc) at a later date?

Will we expand the game? Yes! However, we have no plans to pursue a mining, trading, pirating game – we are a space combat game.

This is what the players wrote on the forums:

Caveman wrote:
Yep. Not gonna buy this game.

DLinkOZ wrote:
Yeah, it’s pretty much made the path clear. Door is that way…

TygerBlue wrote:
What I read in the Q/A didnt make me happy or make me want to play the game. All it did was remind me of many other mistakes from reading feedback wrong. From the classic JumpGate beta to SWG redesign mistakes. It’s truely sad see this game be put back to bare minimal features. If you think a purely PvP game is going to sell your game, You’re Wrong. Even a 50/50 split wont sell this game. When beta comes out and if I make it in, I will test it and see if my thoughts are wrong. But from what I read from the Q/A I dont see this game being a hit or even a mid-of-road game. I see a game that reminds me of Tabla Rasa, Auto Assault, and Hellsgate.

Roheryn wrote:
Well I have gone 6 years without a great space game with open possibilities and a high skill curve. I guess it won’t kill me to go the rest of my life.

S77thArcher wrote:
I am truly amazed at the people who are posting positive comments about this. I can under stand not wanting to make too hardcore of a game, I can even understand wanting to make it a shooter and not a sim. Thats not the game I want to play, but I suppose there is a market for it.

What I can not comprehend at all, is how you [people] think you can sell something so dumbed down and shallow. I am sorry, but what you are describing is not an MMO, it is simply a multi player shooter set to unlimited deaths and time. With out a functioning economy, meaningful player interaction, and consequences for you actions, that is all it is. It is not different at all from loading up back to back games of CoD.

Jayjay67 wrote:
Congratulations on creating your 2nd Auto Assault.

What happened to learning from your mistakes?

I hope Gazillion realise your about to be the only developer in history to release 2 games in a row that fail to have a playerbase.

You had, under Hermann, the perfect idea and development for an enjoyable follow up to Jumpgate and now you have blown it. Your decision to rewrite the game and remove any of the MMO from the game has got to be the biggest financial blunder since Wilbur Wobble invented the chocolate fireguard.

Hopefully, it isn’t too late for common sense to prevail and you will realise how stupid your decisions have been and you get back to where the game was last year.

The full topic can be found at:
http://us.jumpgateevolution.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3604

More quotes:

Hellaskan wrote:
"JGE is about waging war against other nations. As such, you will not be able to have any sort of communication between nations, including trading. "

Okay fine, but that eliminates the mercenary/pirate angle that a lot of space
canon works with. I could easily see a host of players playing a semi-neutral class, traders/mercs/pirates… hanging on the edge of battles, collecting scrap… reselling it to the lost parties…at a markup…so they can try to keep that side down monetarily… helping the other side and getting a wage to do it. Where is that!!!

"In order to encourage the giant space battles we want, you’ll automatically know where major components are that are important for navigating and playing the PvP game. "

So not only are you turning a blind eye (seemingly) to crafting, trading, mining… but you’re going to eliminate the one thing left (to some degree) that players enjoy –exploration? Are you trying to create the nicheiest of niche market games?

Sigh, I think I am done following this title taking into account these new revelations, I would bet that you’ve lost more potential players than you’ve gained.

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Let me put it this way, if the devs said that the game would have “pirating. crafting, trading, mining, equal focus on gameplay elements as well as action”, exploration, thoughtful ship design, etc… (the things i referenced above)… nobody would say “why does it have that!!!” … at least, nobody with an opinion worth a ****.