I'm really getting tired of all these "Dust 514 is dead!"-posts so I did some research and compared the player numbers of Dust 514 with other F2P-games.

let the chaff fall away.

Can you think of a way to refute his writing without accusing him of being a CCP shill? Or making incorrect use of an ellipses? (If you want to indicate a pause in speaking, you're supposed to use two dashes like so: "But seriously--can you think of a...)

English is such a precious resource, but you people are ruining it for everyone!

Player counts started dropping before GTA was released. If you look at the eve offline activity graph you'll see where the player count started sloping down...it was at the release of 1.4.

Ha! You would have had me if you hadn't added added a second ellipsis into the mix, thus making my usage of the term
anticipatory.

Anyway, do you live in the west coast or something? Shill is very much a part of the Eastern American Lexicon.

When is a game dead for you? Really? MWO has about 3000 active players during peak times. I don't see how it's dead: It's still perfectly possible to play it. You'll always find people to play with, without having to wait. How is that dead? How is Dust following it quickly? Do you really need more than 50.000 players until you say "Yes. It's doing pretty good."? Really. What do you want before you say a game isn't dead?

Do you want to see how a real dead game looks like?

http://steamcharts.com/app/96300
http://steamcharts.com/app/18110
http://steamcharts.com/app/70000

This is dead. At some times you don't even find enough players to fill one 32 player server. Sometimes you find one server but it's already full and you can't play. A game is dead when you can't boot it up and just play. Dust 514 isn't like this at all. Neither is MWO nor Blacklight. These games still have thousands of active players.

I would love to see where you got these numbers. I couldn't find any. That's why I had to compare the only numbers I could find to get some kind of a guess.



How aren't they improving the player base? People just want everything at the same time. Fix this, fix that, add this. It's just not possible to do all this so fast. But they are improving. They even decided to go with the monthly patch release because the players wanted it. They do what they can to make the game better. Making a game isn't as easy as many people here think it is. Of course: It's doubtful that everything in the daily life of the staff is perfect and there may be some things which they could do better. But it's work. If you think you could do better why don't you write an application to CCP and work for free then? I'm sure they would love to have experienced people who don't want to be paid.

Dust 514 isn't dead until the developer decides to thrash the whole project. And for some reason even games with as little as 250 - 1500 players online at peak times still get updates.

Would you really want CCP to release every racial suit instantly, no matter how broken the stuff is? Do you want them to release a half finished vehicle update? Would you want that, when you complain that Dust wasn't finished when it was released? I doubt this would do anybody good. I mean what are we getting next? Better tutorials, Corp roles and maybe even a squad finder. This will improve the existing gameplay. I for one would like to see new content though, but the new content will probably even more fun when we have stuff like a squad finder in place.