At this point, no game will kill DUST other than "Hey, Legion is DUST on the PC/PS4; play over there."

What will kill it is the slow dropout that people will have. PS3's will die, veterans will stop playing, and there will be virtually no new blood in to take care of the loss. To me, there are four ways for DUST to die: Legion/DUST 2, Sony stops supporting PS3, CCP says "good night, sweet Prince.", and the slow bleed.

Other than those, I don't see any one thing being the killer.

Has anyone else noticed that whenever a game is poised to take even more players away from Dust, something goes wrong?

Destiny has barely any content with a $100 price tag including the DLC unless you pre-order, which brings it down to $90.

Tom Clancy's The Division got pushed back to mid-late 2015.

Star Wars Battlefront is publicly confirmed to be a pale facsimile of the original games.

Is Dust just unusually lucky as far as competing titles? This is seriously getting uncanny.

Games have development issues and get over hyped all the time. These stand out to you because they are hyped within the Dust community as being the thing that will kill Dust.

This is exactly why it is best to just ignore that kind of hype until the game is either very close to released or is released.

Dust would be lucky if those games where cancelled.

Stuff happens and has been happening for sometime now, so no Dust isn't 'lucky'. It's as lucky as any other game in that regard . Probably even less so if it is lucky because all those games are coming this year plus more and all of which will take some players from the already < 3000 it is now.

Games have development issues and get over hyped all the time. These stand out to you because they are hyped within the Dust community as being the thing that will kill Dust.

This is exactly why it is best to just ignore that kind of hype until the game is either very close to released or is released.

Its going to be a sort of middle ground between rainbow six tactical "realism" and more floppy games like destiny or COD. Thats what the chairman said anyway, not sure what that will actually mean in implementation, but whatever ;d

in simple terms he's gonna butcher an IP for mass appeal

in simple terms he's gonna butcher an IP for mass appeal

Plain and simple, it is greed on the AAA titles and producers. They have developed A LOT more content than the new game being released day one. They do that so they can squeeze more $$ out of you. No more lengthy storylines in FPS. They want to drag you along for at least a year to even two years so they can reduce production and maintain current income which leads to increased profits.

If they have their way, you will soon pay for connecting to their servers on top of paying to play through your consoles service. This will apply to PC also. EA is the one leading the charge on that one.. (Read Battlefront).

Not even a month ago, a lawsuit was started to stop people from developing their own server software for abandonware games, citing security and profitability reasons in the future. They even included LAN connectivity in their scenarios.

Unfortunately all the sheople will keep buying the games and encouraging it.

Next up, DMCA being applied to your vehicles making it illegal to work on your own car. Look it up..

How many other FPS games have perma death? And how does perma death = mass appeal?

uniformed response, i didnt read far enough, just assumed. my bad.

Show me when CCP gave a particulate of a turd about how many players they had, as long as money came in? Eve is a perfect example, it has gone up and down over the years. It doesn't have player numbers like other big titles, and it does well..and has lived and is living a pretty long life. Just a thought.

Where is this 3,000 number coming from that everyone keeps saying? I can't find anything other than before rogue wedding there was 300k individual accounts logging in and playing at least once a month. I know it has dropped drastically since then, but I think more than just 3k play. Maybe no more than 3k at any given time..I can believe that

in simple terms he's gonna butcher an IP for mass appeal