Dune: Awakening

To me, the game now feels like a construction site run by interns and AI. Dune: Awakening’s endgame is stuck in a fundamental identity crisis. The game tried to be both a deep solo RPG where one character can eventually master every craft and combat skill, and a proper MMO that needs specialization, scarcity, and interdependence to make trading, alliances, and social systems matter. By letting every live-server character unlock everything, Funcom satisfied the solo grinders but also turned combat-focused guilds into fully self-sufficient powerhouses that no longer need dedicated crafters or roleplayers. The result is hollow multiplayer loops. The original endgame was heavily centered around players driving the loop themselves through guild wars over Tier 6 resources. Stripping away this PvP core leaves the PvE endgame largely hollow. As a true MMO, the game never needed the castration of PvP in the first place. Serious specialization would have given non-combat players real relevance through dedicated crafting roles, creating genuine interdependence instead of self-sufficient combat blobs. The story worked adequately as a light narrative framework for an MMO-survival game. For the stronger PvE-RPG direction Funcom is now pursuing, however, it is simply too thin. Decisions carry no weight, character-creation choices never echo in the world, and NPCs never become companions. They simply vanish the moment their quest is over. What remains is little more than a series of linear fetch quests with no lasting consequence. The systems added in Chapter 3 do not fully close this gap. The Landsraad missions remain, at their core, repetitive fetch, delivery, and kill quests limited by daily and weekly caps. The Overland Testing Stations function as scalable dungeon grinders whose boss fights remain at the same level of quality and complexity as those of the original MMO framework, functional and repeatable, yet lacking the depth, mechanical variety, or narrative integration expected from a fully realized PvE endgame. An MMO framework that loses its primary social and competitive loop while offering only a shallow narrative backbone is unlikely to sustain long-term player retention. Because of this massive U-turn, the original MMO structure effectively collapses. Funcom now has to rebuild a substantial part of the game’s endgame to support this new direction. This raises serious questions about whether Funcom can realistically deliver that transformation at the required scale. Regardless of how one feels about the direction, Funcom has effectively transformed a game that was sold as an MMO-survival title with a territorial PvP endgame into something much closer to a solo grinder with largely irrelevant PvP. The problem is that Dune: Awakening is a full-price title. The Ultimate Edition was originally offered at €89.99 / $89.99 during pre-orders. This is not an early-access title being reshaped during development. Dune: Awakening was sold as a full-price game, yet Funcom has since made fundamental changes to the very structure and endgame philosophy that defined the product at launch. Anyone purchasing this game as a full-price console release or considering future Funcom titles should be aware that Funcom has demonstrated a willingness to fundamentally change the product’s direction even after launch, in ways more commonly associated with early access.

Jeu complètement mort depuis des mois... Pas un franc succès de vente puis la communauté s'est vite lassée d'un gros manque de contenu. La map est assez rapide à explorer, pas de content end-game, on fait vite le tour des fournitures et ressources... un désastre. Les serveurs sont tous vides. A fuir

I like it, going to like it ever more when they implement singleplayer or private coop-servers.

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I was really looking forward to picking this game up eventually. Finally did and have been nothing but disappointed. It's got some cool concepts, but it really loses a lot of the atmosphere when there's other player bases every 50 meters and enemies and loot respawn 30 seconds after you run through an area. They claim to be working on a single player experience so we'll see how that goes. Game probably should have come with single player from the start.

If you like the Dune Universe, this game will intrigue you and draw you in. However, this game is mostly about grinding towards the next tier of materials, and really isn't much payoff for achieving each tier. If you try to engage with this loving community, a bigot will insult a minority and then everyone will defend that bigot. I've uninstalled and you shouldn't bother, there are other grindy games that are way more fun and have much better communities. You won't find that here.

Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people

Одна из лучших игр по Дюне.