They've already joined and gone pretty much. We've had the grand opening, I was there that day when we had almost 10k players. Slowly over time, all the potential players have come and gone and tried the game.

Its done here, people are getting ps4's.

10k players out of how many millions of consoles? Pretty crap stats if you ask me

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

You must be new here or in denial. Every time a new console comes out, what happens?.

There were about 7 million ps4 owners about 2 months ago, there's now over 10 million.

Who in their right mind stays on a dying console, especially in a game that requires considerable time to fully enjoy?

No one.

All that matters now is a ps4 port so the game can grow properly. That or a PC port.

Sorry if i wasnt clear with my last comment. I was just making a statement regarding the stats not arguing against the port. As far as b*tching about people not reading the post, it was not directed at you as you seem to genuinely care about the future of Dust. I was complaining about people who were mentioning specific problems about the game.

Thanks

EDIT: I thought they just hit 20mil units sold

The problem is "how many people would move from the PS3 to the PS4?" It might just split the community even more. The people that would be most interested in playing would be EVE players based on them already having interest in the EVE universe. Logically, the PC would make more sense.

Regardless, there are a whole hell of a lot more PS3's out there than PS4's. A Google search states that it is 10 million PS4's (as of 1/5/15) and 70 million PS3's (as of 11/16/12). People aren't playing DUST because it isn't on the newest system; people aren't playing DUST because the community is split, the game is not worth slogging through the crap in order to find the diamond, and the game is not well known.

Dunno. Maybe, just maybe, we can get some nugget of information out of FanFest. But the last two FanFests and the last two EVE Vegas's have been a load of misinformation so the record is looking pretty strong...

Fix broken mechanics + advertising

If they announced a port to PS4 I think there would be plenty of people that would give Dust another shot.

With Valkerie already headed there I think there are things they could do to loosely connect the two. Valkerie is supposedly a 20 minutes a sitting type game and it should get a lot of advertising, those people are going to need something else to do!

How many of those PS3's no longer get turned on because the owner now has a PS4? How many of those PS3's are broken? How many of those PS3's are owned by people who no longer game in general? It's a bad stat. We need stats on the active PS3 and PS4 player base.

Yes mate, that would make the whole game brilliant and we can enjoy it for years to come. It would totally go places and everything we do would have lasting consequences.

Matchmaking would boost the ps3 capability by 1000%.

Thanks for inspiring my new sig lol.

If Dust goes to the PS4 and the newbs still get wasted after academy, they won't stay in the game.

If Dust goes to PC only, half the playerbase won't go there.

If Dust gets greenlit for PS4 AND the NPE gets better, we might see a steady rise in player numbers.

The NPE is the most important thing at all! I've created new characters recently, and the NPE after leaving the academy is horrid.
It is no fun to get protostomped in pub matches over and over again, and that's with me knowing the maps and the mechanics inside out. Sure you can sit back and farm SP with links and a repper, but is that fun for somebody who expects to shoot stuff?

NO IT ISN'T!

So the only thing that will keep players in the game is FUN period! Which means that they have a newb playmode, exclusively for low SP Characters, which should be limited to level 4 stuff only.

If they want to duke it out with the lolvets, thy can join pubs, but if they get tired of the stomps, they can go back to their reservate low SP gamemode to catch a breath and have fun in this game.


Tiered games wont solve the issue, only seperation from the vats will help the NPE!