With Dune: Awakening, the developers originally planned a survival MMO, but a central feature is so rarely used by players that they now declare it a failure.
What feature is it? In Dune: Awakening, the developers have integrated many features that were supposed to make the survival game an MMO as well. With hundreds of players on a server, one should not feel entirely alone in the vast desert of Arrakis. While foreign players have been causing trouble in the deep desert since the launch of the game, one feature is hardly used.
The marketplace in Dune: Awakening is what is being referred to. This was originally intended to provide PvE players access to all materials in the game, including those that are only available in PvP areas. It was also supposed to be a hub for all kinds of goods and products for the players. However, this idea is now declared a failure by the players.
Here you can see what to expect in the upcoming update of Dune: Awakening:
A Marketplace for Nobody
Why has the marketplace failed? Anyone who has had a few hours of business administration classes knows that a market is formed by supply and demand – however, in Dune: Awakening, both have been absent since the launch. Only a few players probably used the feature (via Reddit), and the intended opportunity for PvE players to access the best items in the game has been rendered unnecessary by the developers’ changes to the endgame.
Diverse duplication tricks have also ensured that some items were cheated instead of purchased. This has allowed much more currency to enter the circulation, causing prices on some servers to explode inflationarily (via Reddit). Thus, players paint a poor picture of the state of the marketplace.
What do the players say? In a new post, players discuss on Reddit that the marketplace in Dune: Awakening is “one of the most lifeless markets” they have “ever seen in an MMO.” While the post by Reddit user JackfruitLess4716 receives much approval, many players also have improvement suggestions for the developers:
- Chaosrealm69: “I think the problem with the markets is that they are cumbersome to access for selling items. A trading terminal in a trading post would be a possible solution that doesn’t create too much hassle. That would make access easier for all players.”
- unc0det: “It would help if the developers added buy orders to the market.”
- JackfruitLess4716: “They should connect all servers with the marketplace. The most valuable resource in the game struggles to make sales, even below market price. It’s riskier to put items on the market as they rarely sell, thus wasting Solaris.”
Indeed, the fact that the markets of the servers are not connected creates extreme differences among players. In the post, some users explain that on their server there is still active trading taking place, while others struggle to sell their items.
Whether the developers will make changes to the marketplace in the upcoming update “Chapter 2” remains unknown. However, anyone who logs into Dune: Awakening now can get on the trail of a mystery that even the developers do not want to explain exactly: A mysterious event is about to start in Dune: Awakening, which should lead to the major update in a chain reaction
