DUST 514 is going to sink CCP, it will not compete in the world of console shooters. It will have a population of a couple thousand players who happen to be EVE players who own a PS3.

What happens to DUST 514 and EVE a year after its launch, when BF5 and CoD13 launch?

Well the tie in deal with Sony could prove to be a clever plan. Sony could promote this as The Game to play.
While I agree that the FPS are normally drop in, drop out, the very fact that this is persistent could attract considerable interest.
I would love the option of flying a Battleship (fitted for orbital bombardment) to a planet to "help" out. That could raise considerable interest in lo-sec.
..and how about t2 Planetary interaction. Colonies, expensive installations that yield considerable passive tax isk, but are subject to hostile takeovers by Dust players; again would tie the games together well.
Personally I am very optimistic at the possibilities here; but we shall have to wait and see if CCP delivers :)

Wow. why I'm replying... cause bad threads like this should stop.


This doesn't save EVE, this is just another bad post. DUST no way saves EVE, the question you're asking yourself is if DUST is ready for EVE.


DUST to survive longer than 6-12 months via console? lols

We all know CCP is too slow to deliver feasible content in a short amount of time, what's wrong with your head if you think CCP is committed to a constant explosion of new content simultaneously to EVE and DUST and keep both boats afloat? They can't. And console players' have a way shorter attention span compared to PC EVE community.


You are literally looking at a disaster. And you seem to be sitting on a horizontal stick on your chair.

i find myself most curious about the environments. so far all that i've seen has been a temperate, or perhaps the barren. what does an oceanic pi installation look like? or plasma? or gaseous? do the environments have effects much like a wormhole system is affected by a pulsar? for instance, would a plasma planet have a positive effect on energy weapons?

/inquiring minds are inquiring.

Yep. My guess is there will be two control elements, the TCU and some TCU link/power/supply/anchor blah blah on a planet, you have to have both to take a system. If it is just one, then Eve or Dust won't matter, but if you have to have both, then both matter.

Hopefully it is not just as simple as that, maybe each habitable planet has to have some switch flipped as well, plus the TCU things, so there is a multi-phased buld up. While feets are going after the SBUs, grunts aer going after the habitable planets, then both team up on some sort of linked TCU assault.

If dustbunnies can be bombed, and perhaps only from the warp in location on a planet, and that they can only take a planet while an SBU is being attacked, then maybe fleets will need to split up some too.

1) Dust will be free-to-play and therefore has no revenue for CCP
2) It's only on 1 platform, alienating the rest of the potential gamers
3) Why would a PS3 owner suddenly decide to purchase a PC or MAC to play one game? That's a lot of investment, dontcha think?
4) How long until one of 5,000 + member alliances decide to infiltrate some PS3 owners forums and find out when and where they will be 'playing' Dust - and nuke them from orbit? Two weeks? Heck, someone could even pay mercenaries in EVE to do it. Would be kind of ironic that PS3 players would be kicked in the teeth by the right-click of a mouse...
5) CCP marketing department
6) Lack of funds.