"There isn't anything preventing us from doing anything like that, other than focus and prioritization. It's so easy to lose your focus by working on things that are not the most important thing."

"Right now we have a player base and that player base is on the PlayStation 3. They love playing the game, they're giving us fantastic feedback and it's more about sticking with them on this journey, delivering on our mission, rather than to go and try and spread it out over other platforms now.

"Now we're eating our vegetables rather than having dessert," he said, but what if...
"It's a lot of work [doing another version], it's a lot of effort from the dev team which then does not go into delivering features and polishing up the current experience - really our focus is on that.

"It's easy to go and look at all the new shiny things that are coming but we don't want to be doing that. We want to stick to our guns ... there are 80 million PlayStation 3s and we have a free-to-play game; I think there is a massive opportunity in continuing to work on that throughout next year."

"We just haven't decided, It's just as simple as that. It can, technically, be - there's nothing preventing it, it's just not what we're focusing on."

"Now we're eating our vegetables rather than having dessert."

I'm pretty dam sure porting DUST514 will become a priority for CCP when they see their playerbase on the PS3 all but disappear when the PS4 is released.

The kind of numbers it's attracted since launch aren't known either, nor is P+¬tursson prepared to talk about them. Probably, they're small, but "it has revenue and people are playing", and the game is improving each month depending on their needs. There are even stories worth talking about.

Hilmar P+¬tursson
There's a husband and wife team who pursued different gaming avenues before Dust. He would play Eve and she would play console games. Dust bridged the divide. "She started to play Dust, loved it, built her own alliance in Dust," said P+¬tursson. "Now she has boots on the ground and he has an army in the sky. She's calling the shots and he's delivering them.

"It's those kind of things that we care more about rather than the exact number of people who are playing it, because we know that if we have that passion and we do the updates then the journey is going to take us to whatever numbers will come, just like it did with Eve.

"There were only 30,000 people playing Eve in the beginning, now there's over half-a-million people playing it a decade later. We know how that works. If we stick to our guns, deliver on rapid-fire updates, the game accelerates and progresses so nicely that...

"It's just good to see that we're in that mode. It's a much better mode than before when were just internally developing the game and it wasn't connected to Eve."

So, if I get a PS4 I can't play Dust's current incarnation via PSN?

there are 80 million PlayStation 3s and we have a free-to-play game; I think there is a massive opportunity in continuing to work on that throughout next year."


Anyone else done spending money on this game?