Can it be done in general? Yes. I played MAG I know it can be. Can CCP do this? I think that they have this ability because they have enough money around that they could invest in this. Will they? Based on their track record I think they won't.

"Pull it off"?

It's over.

They've wasted too much time and they've screwed up immensely and repeatedly.

In release. Reviews are out. No one plays it apart from a few hardcore players if that.

PS4 coming in a couple of weeks with better games all free to play.

It's over.

I knew CCP had a lax attitude to development but the Eve team comes through when it counts.

But the way the Dust team has handled this game is almost criminally incompetent.

Still not even the BASIC set of suits, vehicles and weapons available.

Still no commander mode.

No chance of any other vehicles like fighters or mechs.

And don't even bother asking about boarding because it won't be coming for YEARS.

You've got better hope of them implementing the commander mode which would make this game a thousand times better than it is now (But they won't implement it even though it was the first thing they had ready).

I was convinced that the last six months of silence was because they were porting this to the PS4 which would atleast make it easier to program for and better hardware to cover the poor optimization.

But they've now admitted that over the last six months they've been doing little else but balancing... I mean it's absolutely crazy!

I hope and also say No

I have reason you don't need to know.

PS3 is not showing signs of a quick kill off with over 200 titles scheduled for these holidays.

First two is a long shot, well cept the maps they're already 5kms x 5kms, the entire terrain is not utilized all at once. Anyone that broke the red zone in the beta know the maps are freakishly huge.

For the rest of the list... Ask CCP Santa he may sneak some gifts under the tree.

i believe that CCP will get the majority of the racial content in so they can set dust up for a spectacular PS4 launch (well, relative to the ps3 one at least), i have a feeling that dust will probably last longer than most of us suspect.

Hohoho?

I love CPM for their lovely cryptical messages.

With 5km^2 maps,
50 vs 50 or more players

rest of racial suits
rest of racial weapons
rest of racial BLOODY VEHICLES
Rest of vehicle frames (MAV, Heavy/light aircraft) In all races
Rest of racial turrets (Laser and such)

And do all of this before
1. The game is dead
2. It would have been more successful investing time in PS4 before same deadline

"Pull it off"?

It's over.

They've wasted too much time and they've screwed up immensely and repeatedly.

In release. Reviews are out. No one plays it apart from a few hardcore players if that.

PS4 coming in a couple of weeks with better games all free to play.

It's over.

I knew CCP had a lax attitude to development but the Eve team comes through when it counts.

But the way the Dust team has handled this game is almost criminally incompetent.

Still not even the BASIC set of suits, vehicles and weapons available.

Still no commander mode.

No chance of any other vehicles like fighters or mechs.

And don't even bother asking about boarding because it won't be coming for YEARS.

You've got better hope of them implementing the commander mode which would make this game a thousand times better than it is now (But they won't implement it even though it was the first thing they had ready).

I was convinced that the last six months of silence was because they were porting this to the PS4 which would atleast make it easier to program for and better hardware to cover the poor optimization.

But they've now admitted that over the last six months they've been doing little else but balancing... I mean it's absolutely crazy!

It is actually very possible.
If DUST makes it onto GAIKAI(All ps3 games will be on GAIKAI). Then hardware becomes arbitrary. Why? Because DUST514 will be streamed and GAIKAI will do all the hardware lifting, it will depend soley on your network connection. his means that CCP can develop DUST514 without bounds. Will GAIKAI be on Ps3 and PS4? It is definitely coming to PS4, but an app for PS3 is possible and very likely.

No one ever said that about their other game that is still active and growing. The one that just turned 10.

They would be fools to move to the PS4 right away. You don't throw a 80 million strong potential player base away for an unproven console with low numbers. Let's say there is 20,000 active players in a pool of 80m consoles. That is a 0.00025 adoption rate. If the PS4 sold 10m the first day with the same adoption rate then it would add 2500 players. I'm being optimistic on the adoption rate and number of PS4s sold.

I have had little sleep so math may be wrong but the point still stands. If you have to choose which players to aim for would it be 80 million or 2 million? Think about it.

i believe that CCP will get the majority of the racial content in so they can set dust up for a spectacular PS4 launch (well, relative to the ps3 one at least), i have a feeling that dust will probably last longer than most of us suspect.

based on their track record? the only other game they've ever been a part of is 10 years old and still growing.

To be honest one cannot take the usual investment over return discussion here as its CCP and they are frankly weird when it comes to projects.

Dust cannot fail - that is a given - CCP would be seen as a one trick pony forever and exciting new projects like EVE Valkwassit wouldnt get the backing they would if dust failed.

Dust has to be something that CCP keep alive if only for their own reputations sake, investors will only back companies that can produce returns and CCP obviously have done this with EVE. What remains to be seen is if they remain loyal to the PS3 - currently this strategy is filled with risk as frankly noone has any clue what will happen with the PS4 comes out.

Will huge numbers of people trade in their ps3 for the ps4? highly likely, will this mean dust loses people, yes but how many is the question.

What CCP should be focusing their mighty marketing team on is all the people who are going to buy that 2nd hand ps3 and getting them into dust - in terms of player numbers we shouldn't see a drop, rather a dip while people find Dust 514 who bought the 2nd hand ps3.

At least that is what i would do, could be a huge inrush of new players to AR stomp.