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4500, as i post this. That isn't any lower than we've ever seen. But it's the weekend and so people like me aren't at school. A lot of people also aren't at work.


Player counts are fine. It's just that not everybody can play all the time. Or even as much as we want to.


We don't need doom and gloom over player counts there fine.

Playercount hasn't dropped since 1.4? Whaaat?

Before 1.4 playercount was 5k at peak weekdays, or maybe just below that. On weekends playercount was around 5.5k at peak.

After 1.4 those numbers have dropped to 4k and 4.5k weekdays and weekends respectively.

That sounds like a drop to me.

Playercount hasn't dropped since 1.4? Whaaat?

Before 1.4 playercount was 5k at peak weekdays, or maybe just below that. On weekends playercount was around 5.5k at peak.

After 1.4 those numbers have dropped to 4k and 4.5k weekdays and weekends respectively.

That sounds like a drop to me.

Before 1.4, I was on holiday.
After 1.4, I'm at work. I can't play Dust every day.

They eventually will need to start coughing up money for promotion. We all know successful games have spent 50% of their budget on advertisement. If they want higher numbers that is. For example I did not even hear about EvE online until about 2009 or so.

because before 1.4 people like me were still on summer break. There is a lot of people that were on summer break

I don't know about you, but i do play games after work, and i imagine kids play games after school too. The "summer" excuse was weak too, i only have 2 weeks summer break and kids don't go on holidays for a full 2 months. You always have more people playing in the weekend, simply because people have more time to play.

Hopefully now that the game mechanics are getting better, the aiming is getting more and more balanced, and the matchmaking is starting to work, we will start to see the player-base getting bigger and stronger.

Playercount hasn't dropped since 1.4? Whaaat?

Before 1.4 playercount was 5k at peak weekdays, or maybe just below that. On weekends playercount was around 5.5k at peak.

After 1.4 those numbers have dropped to 4k and 4.5k weekdays and weekends respectively.

That sounds like a drop to me.

Has anyone else noticed that all the most popular blogs and YouTube channels have stopped posting anything recent about Dust?

I love all the moaning from the nay sayers. It is a hoot.

The Only thing that matters is cash flow. As long as there are enough players spending AUR then CCP can continue this experiment. We don't know the numbers that truly matter nor will we.

F2P has different requirements and the most important one is related to meeting or exceeding Cash inflow projections. CCP is patient. If the moaners don't know that, which they obviously don't, then they should read some histories about EVE Online.

17th of September and 1st of October will be the test for DUST... and it's one I predict will show a huge drop in player count.

I don't think so, GTA 5 is going to have little or not impact in Dust 514. The biggest danger have already gone pass:

"FINAL FANTASY XIV"

Next one is BF4.

When The Last Of Us came out, the player count dropped badly. Then slowly went back up. GTA5 has 2 weeks of SP, then MP is introduced on the 1st. So basically a month of steady GTA5 gameplay. After that is PS4 in November.

DUST will see allot less people from next week Tuesday till whenever / if ever people feel like playing a last gen game. A sub par one at that. Not even hating on DUST, just stating how it is.

FF14 impact was more significant on the PSN stress more than anything. Diablo III did take a notable chunk out though then combining it with the shortly following 1.4 did compound things a bit, but numbers are crawling back up. This is either an influx of newer players getting back in and staying in or old vets giving it another go. Its hard to tell without unique numbers that is not provided (and its a bad dream away from ever happening in any mmo to be made public api accessed)

In principal Dust 514 still is a MMO, even that we don't really have the MMO part of the game yet. GTA games are always the same, you have fun for about a week and then you get bore with them... so, not really a danger.

Battlefield 4 is a different story, is closer to Dust 514 than GTA 5 is. That is a real danger, but even then, it is hard to compare MMO's with Normal games, two different animals. I personally think FF14 "was" the biggest danger, and Dust survived, just about.

4500 people for a free to play MMO on the PS3 is pitiful by any standard though.

give it ten years just like eve and we will see just how "PITTIFULL"() it really is.