how would dust compete against the vast majority of PC games out there.

Dust has been around playstation's store for a long time...in PC it would just be another new game and nothing more

PC isn't the master race, and i don't know what makes you think we would buy a PC just to play Dust. PS4, much more likely to happen.

Indeed there have been people who did that. Still, it's an irrelevant number compared to those who never even heard of Eve before.

Dust has been literally flooded by former-MAG players that moved in stack: entire corporations, clans, groups of people. They also gradually left, but that's another story.

I don't know exactly what happened with other communities, but for what concern big EU communities there's usually an Eve player playing Dust every 100 players.

GAC had like more than 1000 players, but still only had 5-6 Eve players / former eve players.
In my corp, with over 500 players, we had 2 not-so-active Eve players, and it's more or less the same with all the other corps I know.

It's not that PC can handle what you, we want Dust to be while consoles can't. Actually, consoles can handle whatever Dust wants to be: as I said before, I'm pretty sure a ps4 could smoothly handle Eve at High settings.

actually dude bro, Dust would be a billion times better on PS4, XB1 and PC, fact of the matter IT IS BEING RELEASED ON PC so really your arguing for something thats already happening.

You want to really make this game epic release it on the WII plus.

(warning my statement may contain lies)

It's clear that Dust *could* be infinite times better on PC (and, actually you may want to take into account what kind of PC).

Still, talking as someone that doesn't want to see this game fails again, I'd say it is better to continue with Sony rather than move to PC and the reasons are multiple:

- The actual community is mostly formed by console gamers: most of them wouldn't play on PC because of their own choice, otherwise they wouldn't be playing this game on PS3.

- The F2P market on PC is simply saturated. If I'd wanted to, I could find dozens of F2P FPS on PC. Rattati may argue that Dust is different which is in part true, but this doesn't change one of the most important things in games: the fun factor. Different is not necessarily better.

- They already have a well-enstablished game on PC which may act as a self-competitor for Dust/Legion.

- The nature of Dust/Legion is competitive. It actually is better a console over a PC: everyone runs the same hardware, the same specs, the same game. There's nothing you could do to dramatically increase your personal performance, hence, it is much fairer.

- On the other hand, both Microsoft and Sony are trying to let their consoles be more and more accessible for indies and in general, much more dev-friendly. This means, for example, much shorter QA periods (which is actually 3 days for Sony)

- The closed nature of consoles also has its advantage points: you only have to develop on a specific hardware, meaning you know the specs of all the people playing your game, meaning you can both squeeze the system and optimize better.

Although if you have an uber-PC you'd have a photorealistic graphic at 60fps in Dust, it would be useless because it's going to be you and another hundred people who would eventually get bored sooner or later or you'd have to massively tune down your settings at "Dust 514" Level.