DUST 514-« Overview

DUST 514 is a free-to-play massively multiplayer first-person shooter set in the notorious sci-fi universe of EVE Online. Become an immortal mercenary, build an empire, wage war on a galactic scale and change the galaxy of New Eden forever. With endless customization option and deep gameplay that rewards team interaction, DUST 514 offers ever-changing FPS action and a constantly evolving challenge.

Massive Persistent Universe: Wage war on the surfaces of far-flung planets with countless environmental combinations.
Planetary Conquest: Marshal your forces in a continuous, ever-changing battle to conquer the worlds of New Eden and control their resources.
Large-scale Warfare: Vie for control of unique sci-fi battlefields with up to 32 players in simultaneous combat.
Endless Customization: Create custom mercenaries with lethal dropsuits, skills and weapons.
Vehicles On-demand: Acquire, outfit and deploy heavily armed and armored vehicles, on land and in the skies.
Social Sandbox: Build a formidable corporation with thousands of players as you seize the opportunities and bounties that come with galactic conflict.
Connected Experience: For the first time ever, join forces in a cross-platform gaming experience with the immortal starship pilots of EVE Online to conquer New Eden, one skirmish at a time.

Reading that description is really depressing lol.

At least Legion has a hope of being what that quote describes, God knows DUST couldn't hold a candle to that lol.

just because you have 14K likes doesn't mean everything you say is right

You can honestly read that and tell me it's the game we've been playing?

You can honestly read that and tell me it's the game we've been playing?

It's hyped, but it describes the game we're playing perfectly. There's nothing false in that description.

You Legion fanboys are like snipers with tunnel vision. Someone needs to melee you all to death.

Says someone who wants the game to die on a dead end platform.

It's a video game. Take a chill pill. Either it succeeds and we have the game we were sold on, or it flops, and we move on to brighter pastures. In the meantime, you're plenty welcome to play DUST, since the servers won't be shut down anytime soon.

Reading that description is really depressing lol.

At least Legion has a hope of being what that quote describes, God knows DUST couldn't hold a candle to that lol.

Maybe if you weren't so emotionally involved with a GAME and had realistic expectations you might not have believed every little thing CCP promised you. And let's be real here, a "10 year plan" is the most bogus, unrealistic expectation you could possibly have.
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CCP lapdog*

Don't know if they've updated the description on PSN, but here's what it says on the PS3 website:



Did you get what you paid for/downloaded for free? Yes.
Is the game still running for an extended period of time? Yes.
Do they have any plans on shutting it down? Not even remotely.

Then why are you people whining? YOU chose to come on the forum. YOU chose to buy into CCP's promotions and announcements. YOU chose to pay money for a free-to-play game.

YOU are NOT entitled to the constant R&D of a game. Most video games are sold as hard, physical copies with little to no updates. You people have taken CCP's hard work for granted and now you are raising Hell about how CCP "created a PR nightmare." Maybe if you weren't so emotionally involved with a GAME and had realistic expectations you might not have believed every little thing CCP promised you. And let's be real here, a "10 year plan" is the most bogus, unrealistic expectation you could possibly have.

I am happy that Dust is not being removed from the PS3 any time soon. I'm not exactly thrilled that CCP has dismissed putting Legion on the PS4, but I recently realized that Valkyrie is a spaceship FPS that will be on PS4, so I'm a little relieved that they're not being completely foolish and are actually staying in the console market.

Dust isn't worthless now, it's not dead. Most of my in-game friends and most of the people who have a BACKBONE are still playing it because they realize that all their hard work the past year has not been taken away from them quite yet.

It's still online. It's not going anywhere.

Don't know if they've updated the description on PSN, but here's what it says on the PS3 website:



Did you get what you paid for/downloaded for free? Yes.
Is the game still running for an extended period of time? Yes.
Do they have any plans on shutting it down? Not even remotely.

Then why are you people whining? YOU chose to come on the forum. YOU chose to buy into CCP's promotions and announcements. YOU chose to pay money for a free-to-play game.

YOU are NOT entitled to the constant R&D of a game. Most video games are sold as hard, physical copies with little to no updates. You people have taken CCP's hard work for granted and now you are raising Hell about how CCP "created a PR nightmare." Maybe if you weren't so emotionally involved with a GAME and had realistic expectations you might not have believed every little thing CCP promised you. And let's be real here, a "10 year plan" is the most bogus, unrealistic expectation you could possibly have.

I am happy that Dust is not being removed from the PS3 any time soon. I'm not exactly thrilled that CCP has dismissed putting Legion on the PS4, but I recently realized that Valkyrie is a spaceship FPS that will be on PS4, so I'm a little relieved that they're not being completely foolish and are actually staying in the console market.

Dust isn't worthless now, it's not dead. Most of my in-game friends and most of the people who have a BACKBONE are still playing it because they realize that all their hard work the past year has not been taken away from them quite yet.

It's still online. It's not going anywhere.

See, here's the problem with comparing Dust to other games. You can't. You're also oversimplifying things.


Point 1: CoD/BF/etc are marketed exactly as they are. Buy game, turn on, shoot people in the face. Rinse and repeat next year with some new stuff.
Everyone knows and expects this.

Dust was marketed as an evolving game (seriously, read the f*cking description you posted in your own thread for chrissake) with a "persistent universe" and "ever-changing battle". New game modes, weapons, player markets, have been promised to us for over a year, like a carrot on a string.

None were delivered, all while aurum sales were simultaneously pimped, even harder than usual for the past 2 months (you can NOT honestly think that's a coincidence).


Point 2: Perhaps more importantly, if all the stuff we were promised is going to another game (that I'm not going to play because it's on PC) why would I keep playing an unfinished game? That makes no sense!

If I had played Dust for the first time and been told then that most development resources were not being devoted to this game, and that we would never have a market, or PvE, or whatever. Guess what? I wouldn't have kept playing because the game is just not that good in it's present state

CCP can do whatever the f*ck they want with their own intellectual property, that's their right as a business. Misleading us isn't. Neither is a total lack of contrition after horribly handling this whole mess.

As a gamer, I think their decision is lame and don't like it. Whatever. I'm going to go play a better game.

As a consumer, my opinion is that I did not get what I pay for. I think they run their business poorly and don't give 2 sh*ts about their customers. So, I choose to no longer do business with them.

Please note the difference between those two things. Now add them together and you get what you see on the forums. Some people express their displeasure more vigorously than others, but, I mean, this is the internets after all. It's expected.

TL;DR: I'm quitting the game because there are better games. I'm pissed at CCP because they are a crappy company to do business with. 2 separate issues that combine to make forum rage.

I'm not trying to say they lied, just that if you take it as is, you'd probably be pretty disappointed by the reality.

But, that's why I support Legion, because it has the potential to realize that vision. Definitely looking forward to the future.