I own a small side business and if I saw something going sour I would cut my loses and close shop which is what I think CCP should do before they waste any more capital on this so called FPS game.

But aren't lemonade stands, by virtue of their very product, always 'going sour'?

You make me laugh.

CCP are obliged to keep Dust running through virtue of contractual agreements with Sony. Even if dust is hemorrhaging money CCP have no option but to continue it.

If CCP woke up this morning and realized (eveyone already knows) Dust is doomed for failure and they cannot keep losing money, how much would CCP have lost if they terminted it now rather than later inregards salaries (Including MintChips new salary), overhead and overall costs.

I own a small side business and if I saw something going sour I would cut my loses and close shop which is what I think CCP should do before they waste any more capital on this so called FPS game.

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.

well you better make friends with someone that's at the top of ccp if you want that info because thats nothing that will ever be publisized. money isn't everything you know.

Then, there's the idea that DUST is a gateway drug to EVE, so all of the mass press they've gotten to the brand via Dust, has been a benefit to EVE in terms of new people trying it out (and likely hating it) or at least learning of the brand so that when WOD drops, it will have a better and more successful marketing launch.

Eve could afford to start slow (and crappy) and build on that because it is obviously a game meant for the long term, and they had NO COMPETITION.

So all eve players are paying a small pct of their subs to support a losing venture. You would think the income from eve would be better spent on projects that interest eve players rather than a fail game on an outdated console.

The biggest reason Dust isnt more of a sucess stems from the complications of dust (consule bunnies dont like complicated.) The graphics arent as pretty as they should be and its not fully intergrated with eve in some fashion. Add to that the mini content releases that need to be more along the lines of DLC scope then micro transaction scope and they could see a cult following like socom or MAG.

THat is the actual target audience. The CoD and BF kids will constantly game bounce..Which means for a while your average may be 20k at the start but stabilize at around the 5k mark.

If CCP woke up this morning and realized (eveyone already knows) Dust is doomed for failure and they cannot keep losing money, how much would CCP have lost if they terminted it now rather than later inregards salaries (Including MintChips new salary), overhead and overall costs.

I own a small side business and if I saw something going sour I would cut my loses and close shop which is what I think CCP should do before they waste any more capital on this so called FPS game.