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Posted - 2013.12.06 19:58:00 -
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The effects of the PS4 won't be felt until after the year.
DUST is losing players a steady rate and will continue to do so for multiple reasons internal and external.
Honestly, there is nothing that will make this game as popular as it's counterpart EvE. If CCP continues to push forward on the game, knowing that not enough people will play it to turn profit, that's up to them. But less players will lead to more problems, especially in match making and lag.
Like Homefront, when it's servers were empty of players, I was playing against Americans, Australians, and British people in the same game, which made for terrible lag.
If CCP actually does decide to put DUST 514 on the PS4, they should have started to do so about six years ago. But the game isn't even finish and working on PS3, so PS4 certainly won't be anytime this decade.
DUST 514 is considered a failure. It will go down like Homefront, Sega Dreamcast, Atari Jaguar, etc... People seem to forget that their are plenty of video game failures; as not all ideas and titles can be smash successes or sustainable. CCP said they were "laser focused" on the PS3, which is very short sighted and will do even more to detract new players.
DUST's top players are migrating off the game little by little. A game needs top players to set an example. People like CUBS, ReYGunmnmynmn, DJNN Maurdereerrer, etc... are all players that others look up to. If they leave the game, less people stay interested. It would be no different than if CoD's top players decided to stop playing CoD for something else... it does sway people.
DUST was poorly planned and executed. Before, players (myself included) said it had "potential"... but now the sand is more at the bottom of the hourglass than the top. Wishful thinking and potential weren't enough to save this game. It wasn't a bad showing on behalf of CCP. How many companies can build a game they know nothing about from scratch and actually get people to play it?
Look at the current 1.7 patch release. That's a huge change to the game. The FW component is very major, as it really plays to the players who are into the immersion factor of the game. If there are EvE players who don't really want to play DUST, they might after 1.7. On paper: DUST 514 will go down as a spectacular game. In reality: it was downward spiral of wasted potential and poor project management. A case where the book is better than the movie...
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