I only play PC titles. So if it is going to fail no big deal. I will never play it.

or the 360 which has 3 times the player base, and isn't planned to be replaced by a new system for a few more cycles.

Dust already won.
It's the first MMO to effectively merge a PC and a console MMO.

I only play PC titles. So if it is going to fail no big deal. I will never play it.

Talking of idiots, the site isn't even a Sony site it is a news website blog...

DUST 514 will have Micro Transactions right? If so that will NOT work on console..

Considering nearly all the player base who play FPS on console are kiddys, i really doubt they will have a credit card to pay for dust 514 content..

I like BF3 way of MT, releasing the game bit by bit instead of charging for ammo etc.

EDIT:

Good luck to CCP i do hope it succeeds because if it does it will boost the eve subscription base as CCP could advertise EVE through the console game.

However i am worried that if it does faill it will drag eve down BIG, you got balls for doing this CCP that is for sure!

Good Luck!!

... a great deal of misinformation and speculation...

Not because of the game content but becuase of CCP's planning.

So CCP is going to release this DUST 514 on the exteremely outdated Playstation 3 right?
My view is this, why are they not preparing it for PlayStation 4 where they are guranteed large purchases?

CCP, you do know the Playstation 4 comes out in 6 months right?

CCP financials are available and have been examined extensively by the EVE community.

Subscription numbers, when released, include only ACTIVE accounts.

If CCP weren't willing to take a risk, like every other major player in the gaming industry, EVE would never have been created in the first place.

CCP financials are available and have been examined extensively by the EVE community.

Subscription numbers, when released, include only ACTIVE accounts.

If CCP weren't willing to take a risk, like every other major player in the gaming industry, EVE would never have been created in the first place.

CCP financials are available and have been examined extensively by the EVE community.

Subscription numbers, when released, include only ACTIVE accounts.

If CCP weren't willing to take a risk, like every other major player in the gaming industry, EVE would never have been created in the first place.

Damn, unreal engine 3 games can never be moved form one platform to another....

Don't they realize FPS sucks on console???

Don't they realize FPS sucks on console???

A reported 1.5 million people queued at midnight globally to get their hands on Modern Warfare 3, with a total of 9.3 million copies sold on the first day. The Xbox 360 version sees around a 54% share, meaning it's the first game on one platform to pass 5 million on its first day. The PlayStation 3 version held 42%, which is around the 4 million mark. Both day ones are only slightly behind Black Ops entire first week sales. The PC version and the Wii version held the remaining 4%, which is around 370,000 units.

Don't you realise a whole hell of a lot of people think you are wrong?

MW3 sales by platform



14.7 million people purchased it for the XBOX 360, 11.89 million for the PS3 and 1.38 million for the PC. Seems the rest of the world disagrees with you and believes that consoles are much better for FPS games, which is just one of the reasons why DUST514 is a console game, not a PC game.

Exactly, not player numbers, but accounts - difference is: if you got an average of 1.5 accounts per player, every time you lose 100 players, you actually lose 150 accounts/characters. Think about it. Then expand your thought process to the other points in my post. Got it yet? Or did you skim read for mirth.

As for 'every other major player'...well, CCP are simply not a major player, although their attempt to be this is commendable, and their PR interview question-answering at the booths at shows is very 'PR-by-numbers' comments that say everything and nothing.

This is kinda what I was hinting at with the 'keeping up appearances' comment(s), as I'm sure they are playing it cool and socialising with the real major players and buying drinks for all.

If I had access to the psychological profiles of the top guys & gals at CCP, I may have some basis for suggesting that the need to release on PS3 is because the name behind it is 'Sony' and that just gives other people a different impression of a company, than one which runs a small, niche MMO from Iceland.

The Ego is a fickle thing, and it's interesting to read peoples responses to difficult questions, and then to watch them slip into autopilot PR responses.

What someone does defines who they are, not what they say, remember?

AK

You do not get it. Dust is not going to be released for the PC. So whatever happens to Dust is not my concern except for if it impacts EVE negatively. I will never play Dust. Further even a flop title on a console rig will probably do far better than EVE does as a PC title for CCP. And that is what really irritates me. CCP already seems to understand this as well. That is why they are releasing it as a console title instead of as a PC title. That to me says CCP is marketing to the preteen crowd IE flashy graphics and no game play.

CCP evolving like that is a bad thing IMHO. Just like playing EVE...if you can make a ton of money without much work just using some flashy graphics then why bother with difficult intense PC game play titles? Titles where the return on investment is a lot less. Like PC titles, like EVE.

You do not get it. Dust is not going to be released for the PC. So whatever happens to Dust is not my concern except for if it impacts EVE negatively. I will never play Dust. Further even a flop title on a console rig will probably do far better than EVE does as a PC title for CCP. And that is what really irritates me. CCP already seems to understand this as well. That is why they are releasing it as a console title instead of as a PC title. That to me says CCP is marketing to the preteen crowd IE flashy graphics and no game play.

CCP evolving like that is a bad thing IMHO. Just like playing EVE...if you can make a ton of money without much work just using some flashy graphics then why bother with difficult intense PC game play titles? Titles where the return on investment is a lot less. Like PC titles, like EVE.

Not because of the game content but becuase of CCP's planning.

So CCP is going to release this DUST 514 on the exteremely outdated Playstation 3 right?
My view is this, why are they not preparing it for PlayStation 4 where they are guranteed large purchases?

CCP, you do know the Playstation 4 comes out in 6 months right?

MW3 had $100 million in marketing budget, and spent $1.5 million hiring Sam Worthington (lead in Avatar - go figure the target audience) to act in a live-action sequence promo.

CCP are spending how much? Oh, that's right - ZERO, because they are not a global player and have access to 1/10th of a billion $ to promote their new game which they believe really strongly about.

So confident are they, they are releasing the game F2P.

Supporting your comment slightly; People who FPS on consoles play CoD or anything else which has $100 mill marketing budgets and People who FPS on PC's don't.

/doublefacepalm

So you're basically saying that since console games sells better than EVE (let me disagree. DUST will be F2P while EVE charges a monthly fee, so we will have to see how does all this goes), then CCP must be aiming for console player base, who obviously are teenagers all of them (regardless many of my friends have a PS3), who obviously will only be interested in graphics (even if the already announced interaction with EVE will be inmense).
And all of this shows that CCP is a bad bad company because they want to make money and they will, somehow, manage to ruin EVE (don't you guys get tired of so much doomsaying?) because they will grow effortless, even after having mantained EVE in a extremely good level for longer than any other MMO out there (save for Runescape I guess).

Too much of assuption, don't you think?