Haven't read the entire thread and probably commented proPS4 already, I usually do with threads like this.

Quick note though about PC vs PS4-

The PS4 is a standardized platform whose hardware mostly is identical between different users. This means players play amongst themselves with few to no hardware-based advantages . That newest overclocked whatever that comes to market every 3 weeks has NO bearing on the competition that occurs within PS4s and their network of players.

I personally got OUT of PC gaming years ago because the whole chasing the newest doodad to hit the PC market just to stay competitive at the same level got old, quick. I cannot describe how...liberating it was to fire up my first PS2 or my Xbox, open a game with multiplayer and then play without glaring imbalances from different hardware OR w/e the FOTW hax that were out being all over those games. Win, lose or draw the games that were played were played on skill and skill alone as much as reasonably possible.

This something that cannot be ignored: PS2, BF4, BF3, CoD etc do NOT share a fundamental concept with DUST and that is the concept of ownership. We spend weeks or months progressing, earning and spending SP and ISK to outfit ourselves and finally PC for districts. BF et al. are PvP yes, but the matches are just for EoM stats and once the battle is over it doesn't what happened there. New Eden is not like this, outside of pubs, who wins and who loses matters overall because it affects that possession element. There will be nothing worse in the world of gaming than to have a mission-critical PC match (for example) go to **** because (since its on PC) players are piping in those ddos' and all their scripthax from their uber-modded PCs.

Seriously, if the price of stability and worthwhile gaming is just $400 , done and done. Game Over.

Chicken little crap, wtf does that even mean hahaha.

If you want take a look harder at BF3 on PS3 and lag switching, modded controllers etc, it is not just the PC world that suffers from this kind of garbage gameplay but PS3s and XBoxes as well. In fact given that CCP employs anti-cheat coding I would guess that the kind of stuff you are suggesting would be rather limited and likely result in people DCing rather than continue due to whatever hack they have going on.

2005 is not old and i dont think ill ever be watching that lol.

it means all the players running around screaming "dust is dead, the playerbase is falling, the devs are going to leave us behind and move to pc/not move to pc/why wont it come to ps4" (yah im lookin at you) are going to kill the game when we, the players who actually care about the future development of dust should be the ones letting people know that dust actually is in a really good state, playerbase has stabilized, game is making money, development is on a good track, the game will outlive the ps3 etc.

you want to see dust on ps4? let this thread die and make a new one, but instead of focusing on whether theyre going to develop for your platform of choice, focus on "realistically, what can be done to help dust come to my platform of choice when the time comes?"

and for the love of god, if you dont want dust to shrivel up and die, put money into the game. free games dont fund themselves, and aying 5$ once or twice doesnt count. this game has gotten steady development for years and has seen improvements, rebalancing, and engine upgrades the likes of which console games never see, and its done it multiple times over.
if you still have anything to spend aurum on instead of stockpiling it, you arent helping fund the game. idk if that describes anyone here or not, i'm just saying.

[:flabbergasted:] wow uh... you really dont know it was a childrens story? like... forever ago?

If you'd like to do that rather than telling me to then be my guest.

I've also spent -ú1000, maybe more on dust with my main so please dont assume pure crap. You're preaching to the choir on that one. Also if anyone did stockpile aurum, it wouldn't matter as they'd have already made the purchase but i have never known anyone to do that.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust The playerbase is falling.

If YOU would like to make a thread the way YOU would like then be my guest. If it's any good then i'll support it. If you cba then by all means, stfu lol.

thats pretty much what i expected the eventual game to be. did you read the eve books and dust fiction? they set such a good stage, describing the life on the planets and then... well, you see how it turned out. i dont really like that aspect, but i believe it has the potential.

as a scout in eve, i wanted to scout in dust. not just be target practice, but actually really scout. to explore, and track down ruins or drone hives and whatnot. to take and fortify districts that eggers with levels in planetology could build command bases on for us to fortify. for us to use the plants on the planets to build ship equipment that could be sold of the secondary market of dust legend. to pick up high sec contracts for megacorps to complete missions for pubs, to fight off the incursion planetside in FW. to pick up contracts from capsuleer corps to complete an objective and put out contracts for pick up and drop off at planets.

to be ferried planetside in dropships or deploy from player owned MCCs.
to zoom past an enemy base, light them up with scans, and cloak my scout lav before hopping out to get in flanking position while my squad marches toward.

to stomp across the battlefield in an MTAC fitted with a gatling gun turret and a target painter, lighting up foes in an epic blaze of glory, salvaging the scraps, and heading back to base(or a nearby station if the facilities arent available on-world) to build drones to sell or stock up for personal use.

i bought hook line and sinker into the EVE for PS3 version of Dust 514 that CCP set us up for.
i still get excited thinking about it. i still want to see it happen someday.