Because console players are fickle, they are accustomed to PvE games or games that have a short shelf life until the next version is released so they can start from scratch again. PC players have more patience and understand the development cycle of MMO's and how a game evolves over time.

Console Gamers = Want everything now so they can move onto the next thing.
MMO PC Gamers = Want iterative releases to keep them loyal.

Everyone I talked to who has quit Dust or is thinking about quitting Dust isn't doing so because it is hard to join a squad or because the state of vehicles isn't perfect, rather they quit or are quitting because there has been no new content for several months and a lot of the content they paraded around with appears to be trapped in a void.

Why don't you look at the one year graph at the player count we had before release (yanno, beta).

While you're at it... Why don't you take into account that school's back in session...

DOOOOOOOOOOM!

As a kb/m user I've stopped playing (as much) due to CCP completely destroying my input of choice but i kepp holding on to hope.. The new games on the horizon is making it harder and harder to continue playing..

The few kb/m users I've talked to including myself would come back of they fixed it this may be a selfish reason but when i came to Dust just for that reason and CCP trashes it, that's what happens..

Not holding my breath as it seems a lot of people have left because CCP continues to break one thing or another with no community involvement/communication...

*looks at the graphs*
According to the six month and yearly data, it would appear as though Dust is actually currently in "rebound" mode.

Wasn't it that while it was still summer people were saying "it's summer vacation, everyone's away from home" or something along those lines?

rebound?

dust playercount at primetime is declining by ~500 per month since they lifted the beta flag...

There's zero advertisement.
give us a tv ad, or how about invite some popular youtube gamers to play the game. some of those guys have 500k to 1mill subscribers. give them some free gear and show off the game.

I mean **** me finding a squad is the easiest thing in the world, doing things in corp are ******* easy too. Why the hell can't CCP realise there are something we can make do with and some we cant make do without.

A ******* squad finder, some damn corp roles are the last things players want or need.

Its about to get worse by atleast 1 cause the moment they remove my Assault dropship from the game I won't be playing until its returned.

The Logistics and Assault Dropships are going to be taken out temporarily, but they should be returning in the future. As was said in the first post, we want to go back to basics and get the core interactions working first. Then we can look at branching back out once we have a solid foundation.

Look at the 3 month graph

It seems like the number of players online keeps getting lower and lower. What's going on? Are people giving up on Dust altogether.

This isn't a "Dust is dying" thread. I'm just expressing dismay that this game that I enjoy seems to be slowly bleeding players and am wondering how this game could attract players again.

Also I'll preempt the Grand Theft Auto argument by pointing out that numbers of active players has been decreasing for a while.

So yeah they aren't just messing around with it they are dropping it from the game till "the future" so um just like the Surya and Sagaris don't expect to see them again for months.