I would love to see Dust succeed, my worries are the fact that the average life cycle of most console games seems to be about 6 months of a large fan base. Then about 2 years max before the servers are empty.

I also wonder how long dust players will stick around paying RL cash for tanks and gear when us eve players will be able to nuke them from orbit, for ISK.

I can imagine the rage of these players after dropping 10$ on a platoon's worth of gear only to have one of us come along and being able to bombard them, and they lose it all.

Who know's maybe DUST will succeed, but I give it about 4 years max unless they open it to PC players before then due to the lifecycle of the consoles. We are already half way through the current console generation life cycle. They suspect to see a new XBOX by 2013 and possibly a new Playstation by 2014-15.

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A game lifespan is not bounded by the console hardware lifespan.

DUST 514 may well fail because it is just not fun and/or buggy, but not for all the idiotic reasons stated in this thread.

So unless the PS4 is 100% backwards compatible you will see a drop in players as the console life cycle moves on.

I rather think it's CCP's job to port their game to the then current version of the Unreal Engine for PS4.

And if DUST is successful on PS3, they will.

tl;dr people aren't buying games (on console/PC)

Whatever DUST will by, I'm not going to be playing or buying it since I don't have a PS3.

Ya CCP should but Sony can make it easier on all developers by developing a strong backwards compatibility in to their hardware. It makes it easier on everyone. Then when you upgrade you don't only start out with launch titles you have a entire previous generation of games that are able to bundle/promote your new console. They might not have all the flash the release titles do but it would keep the player base happier.

Counter Strike release date 1999, still servers running the game even with Counter Strike: Source being release. A stable platform that is 100% backwards compatible will keep a games life span around longer then the hardware lifespan.

game update is not a sequel. Console games don't live on updates and DLC for very long because the audience has been trained to expect a brand new game every few months. CCP expecting Dust to live alongside Eve for years is foolish.

I would love to hear from CCP exactly what kind of dependencies and connections there is between dust and eve players.. As long as there isn't any information, its easy to round those connections to "none" and declare a generic fps shooter a failure.
I wish there would be a devblog about the current situation in the development of dust. It would be a nice change to the contentless devblogs lately.



Consoles arent necessarily backwards compatible. I had the first generation ps3 that could run ps2 games, but Sony eventually removed the backwards compatibility from its latest-generation playstation 3s.

I'd have bought a copy of Dust just to see the interaction with EvE at work...if they'd released it on X-box that is. I'm not gonna buy another console to play one game.

DUST a fail project? Only time will tell, IMHO its a fail.
The idea itself is fine, but considering game market of today....its gonna be hard to get by.

How many EvE players own PS3? How many will buy PS3 just for DUST (and BR player mostly)?

Is CCP counting on big alliances to somehow motivate people to contribute to fights on planets?
Is PI still a factor in DUST and EvE, and controlling planets control PI production?
Again a good idea, but its gonna be a hassle, why go all the trouble to make and bake a loaf of bread at home and waste few hours, when you can buy one in a second? EvE has bots, bots earn money, who needs PI and your own ground army when you can buy what you want in 4-4.

Console players attention span is low. With new games on shelves almost weekly, CCP needs a goddamn good plan to keep people playing DUST.

Imagining DUST is a console MMO (MMO connected) is stupid, they cant sell that to most of EvE community, let alone console players. What happens when DUST server population drops? Servers shut down, and what about EvE? Does EvE get a emergency boost of patches to remove DUST from equation, or will EvE keep going like DUST never mattered in the first place.

Now this i am sure no one will answer , how much money did CCP spent developing DUST? How much do they expect to gain in first 6-12 months?
Now imagine all that money and man hours invested in DUST were instead put into EvE....what would be the situation in EvE today, maybe hybrids would be fixed along with a lot of balancing issues.

Yes. The PS3-exclusive shooters have all been such abysmal failures that they're only into their third or fourth sequel by nowGǪ

To say that DUST will fail without giving it a try is foolish at best. Nobody knows right now what the reaction to DUST will be when it hits shelves. To quote one of my co-workers yesterday after I explained DUST to them...

"So you are saying that there will be players in another game flying in space who will pay people in DUST to do ground combat for them? And these actions will impact the PC gamers flying in space? That's ******* awesome!"

That's the kind of reaction that gets new games attention and makes them successful. No matter what it is from...the wow factor.