zerokmatrix wrote:I would like to know where these people who are saying "Dust is doomed", "Dust is a failure", "Dust won't survive the PS4 launch" etc. etc. are getting there FACTS from?
Are you in possession of CCP's Dust statistics??
If yes, the please publish them.
If no, then how do YOU know
a) how many accounts Dust has in total and active?
b) how much players have and are spending on AUR?
c) if the numbers of players is more or less than CCP projected to be playing at this stage?
Also do you know for CERTAIN that a PS4 version is or is not in development/planned?
Comparing Dust 514 to Halo / Call of Duty / Killzone / Destiny or any other ordinary FPS is a misguided because is isn't an ordinary FPS.
It is an MMOFPS with a totally different income stream.
It is still introducing all of it's features, it isn't a finished game.
It attracts a different kind of player and new people are discovering the game all the time.
I personally think 10,000+ players daily is not a bad start.
This subject will always, always, always keep cropping up from someone, in the same way EVE has had at least one person posting that "Eve is doomed", "Eve is dying" etc. etc. since it started a decade ago.
One last point, about the PS4. If the PS3 is going to be obsolete the instant the PS4 is released then why are so many game manufactures and publishers still working on unreleased PS3 games? Why aren't they cutting their loses and scrapping the 100's of titles that will be released this year and next.? Why did Sony confirm it's continuing support of the PS3 at E3 instead of telling everyone to clear space in their trash bins for it, come December? The traditional things that happen in the games market when new consoles are released are not going happen in the same way as when the PS3 and Xbox360 were released. It will happen differently this time we can all see that.
A. We know that Dust is failing due to public informations about players online vs new accounts created.
B. Lot of players are buying aurum however those are mostly players who play eve so they are heavily invested in that.
C. PS4 version is planed by CCP however will take minimum year or two to appear in beta. At that time market will be complelty elsewhere.
D. It doesnt have 10 k players it has only 5-6k now.
E. Yes the game will advance step by step however as i said market and eve will be different at that point. No 0.0 entity will allow ccp to connect dust to eve fully with decaying playerbase so only 1-2k players would hold 0.0 empires as hostages. Dust is locked in circle since it cant advance due to limited playerbase.