http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

Dust did have one of it's highest player counts today. one of the highest ever in the past few months.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

Dust did have one of it's highest player counts today. one of the highest ever in the past few months.

...So take Dust offline, rebuild it for the PS4, market it as an undeniable improvement from the ps3 version, ???, and profit.


#imsotiredofwonderingwhatif

The platform is orthogonal to all the issues we're facing with DUST. Google the hard words in my previous sentence before replying.

Also a glimpse from software development world: "rewrite" has bigger chance to kill a project, than leaving in on PS3 and letting people like you go play PS4 titles. It can also impact the company and not in a good way. Pulling a game with player base from a platform, to develop it for new platform for **** knows how long is not a viable solution economically, first and foremost. And BS about "saving what's left of DUST reputation" is brain dead. If this game is pulled out then it is no more. There is no game. Reputation is all that is left. And reputation for discontinued products means two things: jack & ****. And in two years, when it's re-released, it's long forgotten, because people have moved on. Also two years without user feedback and bug reports. Great idea.


#dieinafire

Look at those numbers that were nearly twice as high during Chromosome, compared to recent numbers in Uprising.

orthogonal
A word used by the tech-savvy to sound smarter than they really are.

More specifically:

A math term that means perpendicular, but not just in 2D but in any dimension. Now commonly used to indicate an idea or concept that stands apart so much from everything else that it "sticks out," is "from left field," or is "third-way."
"I have this co-worker who keeps using the word 'orthogonal,' usually after he mentions some idea he thinks is God's gift to man. Can't wait to get this word into my vocab. Soon as I figure out what it means." - Urban Dictionary

Anyway, where do I begin? "It's long forgotten" Yeah, no. You do not know that. FFXIV proves otherwise. Also, i'm not suggesting the completely discontinue the game. I'm suggesting a rebirth, unless CCP has a trick up their sleeve to get rid of the negative stigma they've created for themselves. I highly doubt the latter.

And the whole thing about 2-3 years without user feedback and bug reports? Easily remedied with PS4/PSN developer friendly patching/QA system. You want to know the hard truth?

A tiny player base's opinions are not a suitable substitute for competent developers. I'm talking, CCP Shanghai needs a total overhaul. Just like Square Enix did.

FFXIV is the sequel to FFXIV ARR and lets be honest, its the first successful sequel to an FF game in a long time.

Please explain to me how FFXIV is a "sequel" to ARR don't you mean prequel.... unless you have your titles backwards...

Please explain to me how FFXIV is a "sequel" to ARR don't you mean prequel.... unless you have your titles backwards...

Look at those numbers that were nearly twice as high during Chromosome, compared to recent numbers in Uprising.

FFXIV is the sequel to FFXIV ARR and lets be honest, its the first successful sequel to an FF game in a long time.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=116306

something else they should do is allow a one time respec per character you have rather them setting a timeline and saying if you missed it or started playing the game after the last one did well to bad. I just do not understand why you cant get one respec so you can undo mistake you did when you first stated the game. I just feel like they have no idea what they are doing. I feel like anyone could do a better job running this game then ccp is doing now

Edit: One Idea for the repsec is to reward players for playing the game, base it on life time skill points. Set Milestones i.e when you get to 15 Million lifetime sp you have the choice to respec if you want it and go from there.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=116306

But most importantly, taking dust offline and then moving dust to the ps4 will give you guys room to screw up without ruining the games reputation.

What if.... A real FPS company could have done the dev work in making this game? CCP could have integrated the EVE and racial lines, but the heart of the game was run my a professional dev company like dice, for example? what could have been has since past.

Just take it from a person who has witnessed me play this game since february of chrome. My roomate's words "I don't understand how a game could have so much potential and poise with an awesome idea, yet take 5 steps backwards every time they try to improve the game." That is a quote that sums up dust and it's dev history in a pretty accurate way.

If anyone thinks this game will grow with the current state of there end game, their bat SH!t stupid

Let me tell you alittle story: so this Friday my corp had a PC

This is the result:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=116272&find=unread

In case you don't want to look here's all the videos

http://youtu.be/Rt8S7RDuEUw

http://youtu.be/_1Jt_5o79WU

http://youtu.be/Ixw3Zlt8pKU

http://youtu.be/NgLxkECUkPQ

http://youtu.be/fkVnED_Tt48

http://youtu.be/r_bMn8s_2Vw

So I sent a ticket in with these videos and this is what they basically said.

Because you don't have players in the attackers Server location and you are a US&EU mixed corp you are FCUKED

There was no problem with our server at that time so it is YOUR FAULT and we are not obligated to reimburse you

How can you expect to keep a player base when your END GAME FAVORS YOUR SMALLEST PLAYER BASE(aka Asia/Australia)

But if they took Dust offline how would they test it for bugs?

Overhaul CCP's QA department.

Open a beta for players to play-test.

After the official re-release, CCP could still take advantage of the PS4's new developer friendly patching/QA system to squash bugs after release.

Here's the thing.
Players have options. Every FPS mad in the major market works better than DUST.
DUST is beyond broken, and probably should be taken offline and started over.

This is why they have never gotten a dime from me, because the quality of the product is not worth anything.

I have turned MANY people onto this game through my YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook, etc... and ALL of them quit... because normal functions don't work.
-Having to hit the same button 3 times before the desired effect happens
-Bullets ghosting through people
-Slow software
-Match making dilemmas

The list goes on. Even if the content was the best in the world, and everything was fair and balanced, people still don't want to play a game that doesn't work.

Here's the thing.
Players have options. Every FPS mad in the major market works better than DUST.
DUST is beyond broken, and probably should be taken offline and started over.

This is why they have never gotten a dime from me, because the quality of the product is not worth anything.

I have turned MANY people onto this game through my YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook, etc... and ALL of them quit... because normal functions don't work.
-Having to hit the same button 3 times before the desired effect happens
-Bullets ghosting through people
-Slow software
-Match making dilemmas

The list goes on. Even if the content was the best in the world, and everything was fair and balanced, people still don't want to play a game that doesn't work.

Good ol' Doom Bunnies threads


Yes, THIS is Dust!

Once the PS4 come out Dust 514 will lose a large amount of players, especially when Planetside 2 launches for the PS4.

i'm guessing the op doesn't do a whole lot of reading.

you should give a look to the predictions about ccp from 2003 perhaps.

Personally i think the decision not to release even a compatable client on ps4 is dumb. they don't have to improve the graphics at the moment but just make it available to download and run on a ps4 as well as ps3 because as much as they wanna believe there are 80mill ps3s out there. there are probs only 100k of those that still have dust installed and anyone interested in dust will see planetside 2 and destiny and trade in their ps3. very few people will keep their ps3 just for dust especially if the game stores begin offering trade in incentives.

this current gen has outlived itself. as much as devs wont to tell you they are still going to make games for them we all know they're lying their ass off. we'll perhaps see the fifa/madden/nba 2014/15 games on this current gen and not much else. console buying trends have changed, more stores offer trade ins meaning easier access to higher end gadgets.

I seriously don't see this game lasting much longer anymore. CCP is going to start taking away vehicles and BPO's from a community that is already sick and tired of this "Rollercoaster of Hell" development strategy (screw-ups are so consistant, that it HAS to be intentional).

Good luck CCP, seriously.


If player counts/retention, shockingly, do not begin improving by the end of this year, I would hope that you would take the game offline for at least a couple of years or more in order to privately develop dust for the next generation. That would give plenty of time for the PS4 installed base to grow, and lets face it CCP, you were never going to see even 1% of the 80 million PSN users anyway.

New, stronger hardware would breathe new life in this game with improved graphics and performance. But most importantly, taking dust offline and then moving dust to the ps4 will give you guys room to screw up without ruining the games reputation. You guys are still clueless as to how a fun FPS is made and you guys NEED time to be able to make mistakes and learn from them WITHOUT ruining what's left of Dust's reputation.

Take what you learned here, these past two years, and use this experience to finally give people a game people will be playing for years. And when people visit the DUST 514 booth at E3 2017, you could take your place right beside Final Fantasy XIV: ARR as another great comeback story. Both Dust 514 and Final Fantasy XIV received terrible reviews upon release and complaints of bugs/glitches. The general consensus is that they are both unfinished games....

...So take Dust offline, rebuild it for the PS4, market it as an undeniable improvement from the ps3 version, ???, and profit.


#imsotiredofwonderingwhatif

How would taking it offline benefit CCP at all? Your acting like this game is terrible. I enjoy this game immensely and while it could do with many improvements, that doesn't mean it should be taken offline...... Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean everyone else should have to suffer for it. If you don't like how the game is going then stop playing it for a "few years" and just come back whenever you think its "finished"

But whatever, you can doom and gloom all you want, ill just continue playing the game like always do.

orthogonal
A word used by the tech-savvy to sound smarter than they really are.

More specifically:

A math term that means perpendicular, but not just in 2D but in any dimension. Now commonly used to indicate an idea or concept that stands apart so much from everything else that it "sticks out," is "from left field," or is "third-way."
"I have this co-worker who keeps using the word 'orthogonal,' usually after he mentions some idea he thinks is God's gift to man. Can't wait to get this word into my vocab. Soon as I figure out what it means." - Urban Dictionary

Anyway, where do I begin? "It's long forgotten" Yeah, no. You do not know that. FFXIV proves otherwise. Also, i'm not suggesting the completely discontinue the game. I'm suggesting a rebirth, unless CCP has a trick up their sleeve to get rid of the negative stigma they've created for themselves. I highly doubt the latter.

And the whole thing about 2-3 years without user feedback and bug reports? Easily remedied with PS4/PSN developer friendly patching/QA system. You want to know the hard truth?

A tiny player base's opinions are not suitable substitutes for competent developers.

I'm talking, CCP Shanghai needs a total overhaul. Just like Square Enix did.

I'm sorry, but the general consensus is that this game is bad. It's not just me, it's damn near everyone who bothered to download the client. Everyone is gone.

I would hope that you would take the game offline for at least a couple of years or more in order to privately develop dust for the next generation.

Completely agree. They should take it off, go shoot some rilfes, carbines, Mgs. And start from scratch and stop with empty promises.

They should start with taking the forum down!

P.S. Sorry, I had to after reading the 10000000000000th whine thread

The problem with Dust isn't that it's on PS3. The problem is that it is made using the awful Unreal engine and that it hasn't seen any new content for half a year. And potentially we won't see any more content until 2014.

They should start with taking the forum down!

P.S. Sorry, I had to after reading the 10000000000000th whine thread