... the server side of the game... the more complex it is the harder it's going to be for the average skid to run. You'll get it eventually, don't worry.

Consoles are way different, and so is the mentality of console gamers. Also, windows 98? It's not that old is it?

Once upon there was a game called Tabula Rasa.

It failed within months having been the most over hyped, under delivered MMO ever.

Eve has been around for the better half of a decade and will be around for much longer.

the end.






And here's hoping CCP releases another WiS expansion soon, so goons and testies can rage quit and make new eden a better place for all.

As far as Dust goes. If CCP put the continued long term development wheels on Dust as they have with Eve since its inception, Dust will only get better with age. CoD can suck it.

it was pretty self explanatory.

considering Dust is going to be a console port it won't be very big at all.

CCP is using Eve subscriber money on a new game, when that game goes under, so does eve.

Do you really think Sony will make a PS4 that turns all it's multi-player online games obeselete?

I don't know, do you know anyone that still plays the sims 2 online? Not a sony game, but you get the idea. That's what consoles do, that's kind of the principle behind it. Gamers buy new consoles for.. you guessed it! New games! Not to play the same crap they were playing the last 5 years.

http://youtu.be/rUeRQSRMiFc

The other really funny thing is that PS4 gets announced this year, should of made if for PC CCP.

Dust will also run on the PS4 out of the box. Sony cannot afford to botch backwards compatability on their next console and CCP wouldn't have agreed to this if they weren't sure of it. They mentioned this explicitely multiple times at FF 2009.

To say that DUST is not competing with games like CoD and BF is just ignorance. But keep telling yourself that DUST is going to be some special little snowflake that doesn't need those millions of players to like it then see me again with the servers of DUST are sitting empty because CoD released it's newest iteration.

I don't know, do you know anyone that still plays the sims 2 online? Not a sony game, but you get the idea. That's what consoles do, that's kind of the principle behind it. Gamers buy new consoles for.. you guessed it! New games! Not to play the same crap they were playing the last 5 years.

News flash:

CCP is using Eve subscriber money on a new game, when that game goes under, so does eve.

Also, long term dev doesn't really go together with console gaming.

I lolled

You failed economy 101 didn't you?

Sure, cause when Dust doesn't sell for the millions they owe on it, that money is just going to appear out of nowhere right? Surely Eve, their only source of income, won't suffer as they struggle to pay everything back.

GǪbut that wasn't quite what you said, now was it?

It's not competing with CoD and BF for the same reason that, say, Borderlands isn't competing with CoD and BF GÇö different game, different genre, different customer base.

I don't know, do you know anyone that still plays the sims 2 online? Not a sony game, but you get the idea. That's what consoles do, that's kind of the principle behind it. Gamers buy new consoles for.. you guessed it! New games! Not to play the same crap they were playing the last 5 years.

It's not competing with CoD and BF for the same reason that, say, Borderlands isn't competing with CoD and BF GÇö different game, different genre, different customer base. And it doesn't need those millions of players much like EVE doesn't. Does TQ become empty every time WoW releases its newest iteration?

Sure, cause when Dust doesn't sell for the millions they owe on it, that money is just going to appear out of nowhere right? Surely Eve, their only source of income, won't suffer as they struggle to pay everything back.


And we're not even counting the rage quitters who are going to leave after they decide they don't like the changes Dust is making to Eve. More income lost right there. And there will be rage quitters.

I wonder if there is any top-down pressure from big alliance leadership on their members to get PS3s in anticipation that Dust will drastically change the Sov mechanic.

And if not, could this potentially cause mass rage-quits when the existing power blocs don't adapt to incorporate the Dust mercs?

Well, none of that really matters to me, I bought my PS3 a month back, signed up for Dust Beta and check my email several times a day for news of the closed Beta launch. I, for one, have been pumped for Dust for years.

Was I disappointed when they first said it was console only? Yes.
Was I even more disappointed when they said it was PS3 exclusive? Yes, but I understand the reasoning they've given, with Xbox's little closed off universe choking the EvE-Dust link possibility.
Am I scared of what the MT model will be? **** yes, but I think that after Incarna and the cluster-**** that NeX was, I can't see them screwing that up again. But who knows, history sometimes repeats itself.

I think this game's biggest competitor is Planetside, as I don't give 2 damns about CoD and won't get BF3 (BECAUSE OF ORIGIN!), and I LOVED PS 1. The best hope is to make it so the Dust players CARE about the EvE universe they are affecting. PS2 will have its continent-sprawling wars with thousands of participants (most likely with several serves, not one universe, not one war), but it'll all just be rotating ownership that doesn't matter to the player over a long term. In Dust, their actions will affect a larger game with "REAL" consequences, and that could really hook a lot of the players that try it when they fully understand what they are a part of.

I wonder if there is any top-down pressure from big alliance leadership on their members to get PS3s in anticipation that Dust will drastically change the Sov mechanic.

And if not, could this potentially cause mass rage-quits when the existing power blocs don't adapt to incorporate the Dust mercs?

Well, none of that really matters to me, I bought my PS3 a month back, signed up for Dust Beta and check my email several times a day for news of the closed Beta launch. I, for one, have been pumped for Dust for years.

Was I disappointed when they first said it was console only? Yes.
Was I even more disappointed when they said it was PS3 exclusive? Yes, but I understand the reasoning they've given, with Xbox's little closed off universe choking the EvE-Dust link possibility.
Am I scared of what the MT model will be? **** yes, but I think that after Incarna and the cluster-**** that NeX was, I can't see them screwing that up again. But who knows, history sometimes repeats itself.

I think this game's biggest competitor is Planetside, as I don't give 2 damns about CoD and won't get BF3 (BECAUSE OF ORIGIN!), and I LOVED PS 1. The best hope is to make it so the Dust players CARE about the EvE universe they are affecting. PS2 will have its continent-sprawling wars with thousands of participants (most likely with several serves, not one universe, not one war), but it'll all just be rotating ownership that doesn't matter to the player over a long term. In Dust, their actions will affect a larger game with "REAL" consequences, and that could really hook a lot of the players that try it when they fully understand what they are a part of.

Have you played Dust yet? Any good? Tempted to get a PS3 cause of it.

Then please enlighten me as to which genre DUST is going to be placed in if not FPS.

Borderlands is a storyline driven single player/CO-OP RPG that uses the first person setting.

Also if EVE had half of the subscribers that WoW has I would agree with your point but obviously WoW is the winner on this front.

Ah, it is the turn of Dust 514 questions for the weekly topic rotation. I wish there was an auto-ignore feature for the people too lazy to check if their brilliant, witty and oh so original prose has already been discussed at length.

Not really what I was talking about in these ones but still similar subject.

What will happen to Dust 514 when the next generation consoles release?

How long do you intend Dust 514 to last, CCP?

Are PS3 players ready for a steady girlfriend?

The podcast in that last one is worth it. And another one that contains some references, but not directly related. (More of EVE on PS3)

Eve on PS3?

Really not a similar subject? And you're welcome. And a thank you, I hadn't seen your second linked one yet.