yes, it still would have been nice to have it at launch for ps4 its a free game, maybe new/more people would have gotten into dust, i know when i bought my first ps3 i couldnt afford anything else so i had to play demos and free crap for about a week till next paycheck

The epic fail is your reasoning ability. We have a small active playerbase in a FTP game on a platform with a massive install base. There is only one conclusion to draw from this: DUST's gameplay isn't in a good place yet. Bringing it to another platform won't significantly increase the playerbase because most people who try it will delete it and never want to give it a second chance. Adding that 2nd platform will slow down development by at least a factor of 2, and it will make finding and fixing bugs much harder.

Instead, CCP needs to continue to improve the game, finish the core content, resolve performance issues and bugs, make a great NPE, and iron out balancing issues. Once the game is "out of beta," then it makes sense to move to a modern platform. I suspect it will take another 6-9 months, before it will be ready to start porting. When they release on the PS4 (or whatever they go with), the game will be in a decent place, new players won't be scared away, and it may get a new set of reviews along with some marketing. CCP can then sunset the ps3 over time and start to really push the next gen hardware.

For a game that has sold millions upon millions of copies, 50 000 online count seems a little low, don't you think? I find it ironic when people claim this game is dying based on server statistics when they themselves have no clue how the stat tracking works.

The thing is, the playercount displayed there only shows the number of people at that one specific moment, not a total of the entire day. People log in for a certain period and then log off at one time, while other people do the same at another time. Even if people logged in for around 6 hours at a time, that'd still at least quadruple the playercount to 18.000.

And really, what point is there comparing DUST into BF4? They're different games with different playerbases, and one has a ginormous marketing budget and is backed up by a major publisher while the other doesn't. And last I checked, DUST is still live so it must still be making profit. So what, it doesn't mske millions like the BF franchise does, but why should we care?

And as others have said, I'd rather wait for CCP to refine the kinks out of the game before releasing it on another platform than release a half-finished product on a new one in a hasty effort to get new players.

You state that the epic fail is my reasoning ability, O'Rly
So therefore you consider more reasonable the way CCP FAILS to Provide? CCP were the ones which you should be questioning being reasonable not me for sure, even if i understand that you're a fan boi and wish to protect this game
Here is a Basic list:
*Lack of Racial Suits
*Lack of Racial Weapons
*Lack of a DECENT Match Making System
*Lack of Regional Server Selection for PC and FW due to THE LACK OF PLAYERS and BAD IMPLEMENTAION IN GENERAL
*Lack of a player market and trade system they would introduce (which was stated by CCP around 2 YEARS AGO)
*Lack of the STABLE 30 Frames Per Second
*Lack of the game being STABLE on the PS3 System, we still have Crashes, Black Screens, Internal Errors, disconnections which are server based etc etc.

The list is very long. Futhermore you basically openly Admit that the game's Core Mechanics/Content are not in place , therefore WE ARE STILL PLAYING A BETA.

You Sir are an Epic fail and can't even defend their fails due to the fact you don't even have a leg to stand on in THEIR /CCP's Defence. NP You can enjoy living the lies and illusions CCP throw @ U it's perfectly normal that you have a BI-ASSED opinion towards your FAVOURITE game , so therefore U TRY(HARD) to defend them, it's perfectly natural for those like you to do so