We don't like money

We don't like effort

Well, you like tears, right? a better game on the newest **** will attract more players to farm tears from

Fixed.

CCP is actually very fond of money, as noted by the AURLords 1.0 expansion.


This is actually false, most players with high-end gaming rigs and/or PS4s aren't from an impoverished area and can not only afford to purchase games better than DUST, but typically seek reviews about a game before playing it.

Given how most (probably all) critics have given this a bad review, and the whole FF 2014 ordeal I can guarantee that most people who look up this game will come to the logical conclusion that its not worth their time. Those who don't do the research will play the game for 3hrs and come to the same conclusion.

Those reviews are very old, and wouldn't cover the state of the game even now.

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/dust-514-review/1900-6415604/

The gameplay's more tangible issues are too numerous to recount in full. They're wastelands of muddy industrial sameness, with no attention to scale or flow. Paths dead-end nonsensically. Ladders and hallways lead to empty rooms devoid of relation to objectives or tactics.

Weapon types are tremendously imbalanced. Audio effects sound cheap and have little relevance to the direction or proximity of their source. Dips in the frame rate result in distant enemies frequently looking like they're moving in stop-motion. The list goes on, but the problems run deeper.



Games like Halo and Call of Duty may be more limited in scope than Dust 514, but they can stave off any existential dread through the excitement and immediacy of their combat. Dust can make no such claims. Its poor gameplay is a taint that spreads upward from the roots, vitiating the lofty aspirations of its other features.

Skill and weapon unlocks, ordinarily the cherry on top of a satisfying gaming session, morph into taunting reminders of the grind to come. The experience points, money, and items that signify forward progress become signposts that warn you're going in circles: kill to get better weapons, to kill better, to get better weapons. All the work CCP puts into crafting a larger dystopian fiction bleeds into the real experience in this fashion: you feel like a cog in a formless machine, working--not playing--in service to obscure overlords and nebulous goals.



Dust's link to EVE was supposed to provide the context for these endless war games. But the bond between the two games remains ill-defined. Corporations, the life blood of EVE, barely receive an introduction in Dust. Ditto for the former game's vast libraries of lore.

Sitting in the cramped mercenary's quarters, just a few menu clicks away from jumping into battles all across the universe, it's impossible to get a sense of the vastness of space that makes the massively multiplayer online role-playing game at once so daunting and mysterious.

We know that data transmits across the void between EVE and Dust, because a name taken in one cannot be used in the other. But personality never makes the jump.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/30/dust-514-review

Before we even get into the larger universe around it, the most critical problem is that the actual shooting isnGÇÖt up to snuff. Similar games like Battlefield 3 succeed by making it fun to fight both on foot and in vehicles, but Dust struggles to even make firing a gun feel right, much less vehicle combat



Controls are frustratingly finicky across the board, shoddy collision detection leads to getting stuck on terrain you should be able to walk clear over, and a plethora of other odd idiosyncrasies constantly get between you and what you want to do.



THE VERDICT

Dust 514 truly aims high with a one-of-a-kind cross-platform endeavor. But such ambition is in vain if you don't have a solid foundation, and Dust's crumbles almost from the get-go.

Its wonky mechanics, weak graphics, and microtransaction fueled grind make it numbing to play long enough to explore its depth, and its persistent elements are completely lost on anyone who doesn't already have a foot down in the EVE universe. The ideas behind Dust 514 are clearly strong, but so too is the disappointment when they crumble under the weight of its free-to-play baggage.

They're old, but...





The reviews are still quite accurate, and still cover this game's current state.

The problem is that if Dust has any chance of a long term future (a year +) it needs to move off of the sinking ship that is the PS3. No matter how much the game progresses and improves, it will die with the PS3. A move to PS4 MUST happen if this game is going to keep going in the long term.

yes it dose but it should not be rushed. Planing is needed. it would be like telling everyone lets run this way on a sinking boat. and with chance it could put them in a dead end to drown.

dust 514 needs to get better or the need to make project legion and move all of our characters to that before we move it off the ps3.

Well Maybe a CCP dev could reply to this post so we can talk about what they can do atm and near future? Theres a lot of work that would be needed to move to either platform and it would take lots of money and they may not have the budget to do it atm.

Why don't we push Sony to build a PS3 emulator into the PS4?

Oh lawd how I would love that. I love the PS4 and all of its shiny features, would be sweet to have that for some other PS3 games.

Walked into a Gamestop over Christmas. About 40 PS4 titles on display, half of which were derping sports games. The PS3 games had easily 10x the shelf space. There are hundreds more games I'd rather buy/play on PS3 than the entirety of titles available PS4 (most of which are either sh!t or also available on PS3).

In a word, it'd be worth Sony's time. Even if it were only downloadable PS3 titles from Playstation Store (like Dust!). Doubly so, if they're serious about discontinuing PS3 production next year.

I also want proper DS4 support. Being able to use a wireless cord AND having the touch pad would be baws.

Sadly I think thats more of a limitation of the system and not the game, but I could be wrong.

However I do agree that a move to the PS4 would have the very nice added benefit of the DS4 which feels so much better than even my beloved DS3.