Deviate from the IP core! "Dune: Awakening" PvE resource adjustment has caused controversy

　　Funcom's survival MMO "Dune: Awakening" recently released a version 1.1.20.0 update, which has caused heated discussions in the player community due to the significant increase in PvE regional resource output. This update, which includes more than 350 adjustments, has launched nearly the total amount of titanium ore and Stravidium mine veins in the exclusive area of Deep Desert PvE, allowing players who focus on PvE to easily obtain top-level resources that they had to venture into the PvP area to collect.

Opponents believe that this change seriously weakens the core theme of "survival is struggle" in Frank Herbert's original work. The resource distribution map posted by Reddit users shows that the titanium ore reserves in a single area in Area A have exceeded the sum of the entire desert PvP area. Some players sarcastically said: "This is simply turning Erracos into a vacation planet." Especially when the game background is set in parallel time and space that Paul Atredi has never been born, this design of over-resources has been criticized as the separation of narrative and gameplay.

　　And another group of players welcomed the changes. Previously, non-PvP players had to venture into the crisis-ridden PvP zone if they wanted to make top-level equipment, but now they finally have the opportunity to compete fairly. Many returning players left messages on the forum saying that it was the optimization of resource acquisition channels that allowed them to regain the game - after all, not everyone enjoyed the "hardcore experience" of suddenly being attacked by enemy families while collecting spices.

This controversy reflects the eternal design problem of survival MMOs: how to balance respecting the IP core and taking care of the needs of diverse players. When the newly built alloy refinery in Area A springs up like mushrooms after a rain, developers may need to think about whether this sandbox world, which was born from the great science fiction epic, should this survival trial field be cruel as described in the original work, or become an interstellar utopia that tolerate all kinds of players?