Have you seen the DUST forums? The launch build isn't exactly getting high praise.

Have you seen the DUST forums? The launch build isn't exactly getting high praise.

Have you seen the DUST forums? The launch build isn't exactly getting high praise.

Interesting that a game that's effectively less than six months old and hasn't officially launched yet already has "bitter vets". I think that says more about the players than the game.

I wouldn't judge Uprising on what you read on the Dust forums, far too many attention seeking shiptoasters QQing over nothing - even more than EVE GD...

FPSMMOs generally don't "grow" after release. The first few weeks will most likely as good as it gets for Dust. Just look at some other examples out there, eg. Planetside 2. It's a great game by all means, but it's population quickly fell after the initial launch boom.

It's simply the nature of the MMOFPS game market; it doesn't behave like traditional games in the genre. Dust might turn out to be successful in its own right, but I wouldn't bet on it growing over time like EVE did.

Could have told you long ago Dust would be fail if launched on PS3. The whole training skills in order to play a shooter just doesn't work with the target player base.. FPS-fans are as different from EVE-fans as worms from lions.. CCP couldn't have gotten further away from what they are used to dealing with and producing for, feel sorry for CCP. Good devs but **** for brains management crew up there.

They produced Dust with money from EVE subscribers and then made a game inaccessible to PC-gamers, lolz.
Out of all the games that would have interacted with EVE (a tombraider-style adventure game set in the EVE-universe, a simcity style planet builder that interacts with our market, an rpg or rts set in EVE) they had to go with a flavour of the month, zero brains PS3 shooter. Tweens just became the target audience it seems... Understand who can... They are mixing into an already saturated market were only the best titles stay alive and where 2-3 major players own the market.. Why?
Why couldn't they have produced a game that we would love playing as well. They would have near half a million potential buyers of the bat already for a PC game build for an intelligent audience that would interact with EVE.

I own a PS3 for my son but would never touch it myself and I certainly would never play something as dull and inspirationless as a first person shooter.

CCP management keeps proving they live in an ivory tower. Who are these people who make those calls? Fire them already as they haven't got a clue what people want and what their target demographic is. Even in EVE itself, their bread and butter, they have made some very questionable calls these past years. Who are these people they listen to? Hired management brought in from the US to cash in quickly without having an eye on the future? Many devs are on here talking directly to the players every day, they must know what players want and complain about.. obviously somewhere up the chain they are being ignored at CCP.

Edit: I would gladly come up there and tell you guys for free what gamers want and are interested in. I could also tell you who you reach demographically. When a company systematically ignores its customers they are doomed. What the people who pay the bills want matters, nothing else. Get it through your heads.. instead of wanting what you don't have work with what you do have and produce a superior product. And you know what, when you successfully produce a superior product those people you didn't have will come as well.

Wake up!

I'll end with a conversation I had with 27 year old PS3/FPS loving bud of mine. (He plays for his stats and competes with RL friends about the same age, same game every night more or less)
Me: Hey, you know EVE online I play, they have made a shooter set in the game.
Him: EVE online, you still play that.. Isn't that like really old?
M: Yea, but patches, never old, bigger then ever...
H: Ah...
M: So, it's free to play, called Dust and you are in the EVE world...
H: Ah.. yea I really only play COD when it comes to shooters, so do my friends...
M: Won't you even try?
H: Nah, everyone is on COD, have fun there, you know me and X did 24 kills without dieing the other day bla bla
M: Ah...

So that is the extent of someone who doesn't like EVE's interest in a game produced by CCP, they connect the name, EVE online with the new game and that it takes place in our universe is even a negative thing. It actually keeps some people from trying. Had 2 similar reactions from 2 other PS3 buds when I told them about dust.

Must have doom and gloom...it's fun to read

The wall of QQ and whines in Dust 514 GD is worst than EvE GD.

Something is NOT right!

I think a lot of you optimists overlook the fact that Sony didn't let CCP make a PC version due to the Planetside IP, and CCP is locked into a contract with a company that can eat them because of cashbucks. Companies tend to do things because of legal obligations as often as they do things by choice.

Can Dust do well? Sure. Sometimes longshots win. Do let me know when more than about ten thousand people care though.

I think a lot of you optimists overlook the fact that Sony didn't let CCP make a PC version due to the Planetside IP, and CCP is locked into a contract with a company that can eat them because of cashbucks.

FPSMMOs generally don't "grow" after release. The first few weeks will most likely as good as it gets for Dust. Just look at some other examples out there, eg. Planetside 2. It's a great game by all means, but it's population quickly fell after the initial launch boom.

It's simply the nature of the MMOFPS game market; it doesn't behave like traditional games in the genre. Dust might turn out to be successful in its own right, but I wouldn't bet on it growing over time like EVE did.