Kevall, I'm happy that you are optimistic about the future of an FPS in New Eden, but you aren't the least bit concerned about the aging PS3 hosting this game for years to come? That doesn't worry you just a little bit?

"The whole reason DUST pretty much died is that it was supposed to be ported over the PS4, but that was when Sony wasn't going to charge a monthly access fee. The contract CCP had with Sony reflected that.

Then Sony decided to have PS4 users pay a monthly fee, and the contract went **** up."

Well, that's the story according to capsuleers, isn't it? there's no monthly fee for free to play games ffs.

Lol. They don't know we pay for this game too.
But I meant this https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5596309#post5596309

Good lord this is melodramatic.

Is Dust fun for you to play? If so, keep playing, enjoy it for what it is. If not, don't play.

If you have to hand some grand vision of what the future might hold in order to enjoy day to day gameplay, stop playing.
This isn't like your mom telling you to eat your broccoli so you can get dessert.
If you don't like what you're consuming right now, don't play.
If the game isn't fun for you right now, don't play.


Also, we're CCP job security? So what you're saying is that....if a product appeals to consumers enough that they spend money on it....and people then spend money, thus making the product profitable, which then encourages the company to keep having people work on said product.....in order to make more money.... which assures those people will be able to keep working....to make money.............Wait a second, that's how EVERY COMPANY EVER WORKS.

Kevall is over there drinking with and chatting up the dev team and getting good response regarding the future of dust and you can't stop being salty for 5 seconds and consider what that may imply? oh boy. Here lemme borrow some of that tinfoil and make you a dress to go with your hat.

There isn't a monthly fee for f2p games, but there is a monthly fee for psn now. You can't access the multiplayer portions of games unless you have ps+

*Sony should be providing annual hardware upgrades. Slots for new memory modules, video cards, etc. They have been conditioned to think customers are willing to use the same outdated hardware year after year, because we keep buying spec-locked consoles with no option to upgrade.

I like how post #6 there apparently doesn't know that dust has had kb/m support for a long while

For the record is not the forums claiming that the game is making money it's the company CEO.

I'm here, right now with the Dust Devs and Shangahi team, on the pub crawl and I'm taking the time out, while ever so slightly drunk, to tell you right now that I'm getting nothing but positivity and good vibes concerning Dust 514.

You can choose to dismiss it as the ramblings of a fan boy if you want but I'm feeling better than I've done in a long time about the future of an FPS set in New Eden.

It was a sincere question. No tinfoil-hattery.

Kevall's pubcrawl Dust 514 forecast should be taken at face value: CPM1 is satisfied with Dust 514 remaining on the PS3. So is CCP. They interpret that as a "win".

I dare to disagree. A win would be Dust 514 on PS4 or Eve: Legion on PC.

More reason to just do the damn thing on PC. Release it on Steam. Profit.

People who are defending this game need to think for a second about this post. He is not saying he doesn't enjoy playing the game, he is stating that we need to stop accepting mediocrity with this game and giving money to devs that are not giving us back a vision. Sure they don't have to do ****, but if they want the revenue stream (the hardcore dusties), then they need to step up create a vision for a future of this genre. Not just hotfix this, (insert feature) here.

Vote with your wallets.

As contrary as this may sound, the surest way to get some form of continuation on PC and/or PS4 is to help grow the player base on the PS3. If CCP sees that there is a stable market which turns a profit, they will be more likely to want to continue on the next platform...

wow the disinformation is mesmerizing.

For free to play games such as war frame, load out, black light retribution on the ps4 you DO NOT have to pay any cent to play them online. I have no PS plus and i can play them online just fine.

It was a sincere question. No tinfoil-hattery.

Kevall's pubcrawl Dust 514 forecast should be taken at face value: CPM1 is satisfied with Dust 514 remaining on the PS3. So is CCP. They interpret that as a "win".

I dare to disagree. A win would be Dust 514 on PS4 or Eve: Legion on PC.

Yeah...lets withdraw all our money and force them into the red again. Hell, let's quit playing while we're at it, so they really see the numbers plummet like a stone.
That will really show them our hardcore dedication to the future of New Eden FPS.

As contrary as this may sound, the surest way to get some form of continuation on PC and/or PS4 is to help grow the player base on the PS3. If CCP sees that there is a stable market which turns a profit, they will be more likely to want to continue on the next platform...

Personally I take the news from Fanfest as good news.
But hey, we are all different

Yeah...lets withdraw all our money and force them into the red again. Hell, let's quit playing while we're at it, so they really see the numbers plummet like a stone.
That will really show them our hardcore dedication to the future of New Eden FPS.

As contrary as this may sound, the surest way to get some form of continuation on PC and/or PS4 is to help grow the player base on the PS3. If CCP sees that there is a stable market which turns a profit, they will be more likely to want to continue on the next platform...

Personally I take the news from Fanfest as good news.
But hey, we are all different

This is some of the dumbest logic I've ever heard. If Dust becomes unprofitable that's it, game over.

The community's effort needs to be focused on Dust 514 as it exists, growing this community, and looking to get the game beyond PS3 through profitability here and now.

Ohh, the sarcasm sens-o-meter is not working properly, I see

Ohh, the sarcasm sens-o-meter is not working properly, I see

Don't even bother hoping Dust 514 will last longer than 5-years. In an effort to show CCP how much we wanted this franchise to survive we apparently shot ourselves in the foot. We stabilized the player-base with 2,400 or so active players at any given time (meaning we're no longer hemmoraging players apparently) and not only that... We made it a profitable endeavor for CCP.

Which, both hilariously and ironically, may have sealed the fate of Project Legion as being in Development Hell as they're now back to focusing on Dust 514.

So - paraphrasing here (and of course just speculation) - we basically showed them that we were so loyal and dedicated to this franchise that they're now no-longer working on any long-term survivability and are just focusing on keeping Dust 514 as their cash cow, keeping our interests by fixing it. We are at this point, for lack of a better word, just job security. At least, that's the only conclusion I can personally bring up at this point since they apparently have nothing else to say on the matter.

We've a shelf life now. An expiration date.

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My sincerest apologies if this seems melodramatic - my bad for caring about the time, effort, and money that I invested into this little experiment and being concerned as to what all of it was worth. Allow me to sarcastically ask for your forgiveness for needing slightly more reassurance than "eh, maybe" toward something that has been about three years (that's 1/8th or about 12%) of my life. Even longer on Eve Online (started in 2006).

Do you think you can take a moment out of your time to acknowledge that a man is basically begging for your forgiveness that he was being melodramatic over something that's had a significant impact on their actual life and actually inspired some life decisions (going to school for game design)? Do you think you can do that or is that too melodramatic for you as well? Does that infringe on your concept of masculinity and what is or is not acceptable for a person to be concerned about what is, at this point, basically a lifestyle?

Or are is that pedantic as well? Am I not allowed to be frustrated over something that is entirely out of my control over something that I genuinely love simply because it's a video game and that's -too weird- for you..?

Yeah, I implied a person's personal feelings. Generally what happens when that person basically devalues what is cause of concern for another player. You can't just up and walk in, tell someone the political correct equivalent of "quit being a baby" and then expect them not to get a little twinged. But yanno, feel free to keep that up, I'm sure I'll make a big turn around any minute now and legitimately apologize.

EDIT: And please, -PLEASE- say something about how I need to re-evaluate my life for putting such a high priority on a video game. That'll -definitely- make me turn around and suddenly go all rational and apologetic/sympathetic toward what you're trying to say.