2. They likely will continue to have no competition of a game quite exactly like it, PS3 or PS4. CCP likes long term gams, and has stated they will be moving to PS4 when PS3 is totally obsolete (but probably not much sooner).

Zzzzz.

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First off all, PS2 players would like come over to dust as well. We are still in the early stages of the 10yr roadmap.
While competition can be good, this early in development it isn't!

If EVE had competition in its infant years it wouldn't end up such the unique game it currently is!
Instead making dust general release (non-beta) has allowed us to reap the benefits of competition without the negatives, and the competition, obviously, we shouldn't attempt to directly compete with PS2 or the like until we are playing kn OUR terms not b theirs!

What makes you think that PS2 is better than Dust 514? Maybe it would hurt PS2 more to be on the same console like Dust 514. Planetside 2 has about double the players Dust 514 has. But they also had more hype. And still: They're also losing players. At the moment they have 9 servers and I think they will close some of them down very soon. Doesn't look too promising.

Also Planetside 2 isn't really a game for everyone. It has problems like Dust has. Different problems though.

First of all: Population. I hear it's very one-sided.
Second: No goal. You fight so you can fight. You can never win. I hear there are server resets every now and then. But you can never finish a game. It's all about having a big fight and that's it.

In Dust on the other hand: When we have a big fight (Arzad, Molden Heath Revolution) you can be sure as hell people write about it. When we get new content, it can influence the established Universe of another MMO. Of course: The game isn't there yet. but you know: At some point it will be.

Planetside will steal a huge chunk of players from dust?
I'm not too sure about that. I feel like Dust is a very different beast compared to other first person shooters. In the same way that a die hard halo fan isn't going to be impressed with uncharted multiplayer and vice-versa. Dust is a fps, but it plays very differently then other fps. The other day I played Halo 4 with some friends on multiplayer. It was boring. Ok, so I kill you. Is that it? I can't hack anything? I can't squad up to take out a tank? Everyone runs around pretty much solo and there's not much team planning. Dust just offers a completely different experience than most shooting games out there.

so yeah, dust will be able to succeed even with competition. Also, (and this has nothing to do with anything) I love how female spartans look like in reach but *eeeew* they went all anorexic for Halo 4. not even proana people can like a halo 4 female spartan.

I really wish this game had some competition, cause I loved EVE Online, but this POS of a game is just one big remorseful product.

nonstop population loss is doing well?

actually alot of things are scaring new players away from dust and this reputation will spread around very fast.

a new player now has to decide:
-do I skill into what is availabe despite maybe wanted something else that is announced and will come in the next 10 months.
-or do I save SP and wait for the next 10 months and endure horrible grind against high SP enemies

in both cases the player will feel bad and most likely leave. lack of content and forced "choices" due to it, balance problems and bugs are a plague for this game, you can see it in the declining population.

Well junior, when this thread has something useful in it I'll find a way to contribute to it.

LOL... speak for yourself.

I bet DUST is already developed with Unreal Engine 4. You can judge it by upgraded graphics and changed game mechanics since Uprising. UE4 has backward compatibility to port for PS3. Thought you can't run UE4 editor directly on PS3.

This would explain so many unnoticed bugs cropping out after each monthly patch. Maybe all QA is done on PS4 and not on PS3 and they have to run after that bugs blindfolded... Tweak something on PS4, build to PS3 and then see if it fixed anything...

My wild guess ofc... Feel free to ignore it...

You should be carefully assuming the age of folks around here...

People actually think PS2 is better? It only has more players because it's on PC.

Be warned! OP is a nut job.

What is this MMO the OP speaks off, I have yet tosee that happen.

Dust has lots of competition. EVE is the one that doesn't have much competition, though that will change when Star Citizen is released. From the looks of early footage and the hanger walkabout I would say its a potential EVE killer.

Not f2p...but id say bf3 is a huge obstacle to dust in their similarities and differences.

Dust has very good emphasis on personalised gameplay and loadouts whereas battlefield leads when it comes to the balance between all categories of offensive abilities,choppers tanks jets etc.they balance well

But again..u gotta buy bf

N1ck Comeau wrote:
with this logic i guess games like battlefield should give up because of COD.

GÇ£Maybe they (Activision) werenGÇÖt thinking about us much when we made BF3, but I can tell you, they are thinking about us now. We made a dent in the FPS market and we took share from them. And I am not going to give up until IGÇÖm No.1GǦ