DUST Search - PC Port would be great

xxwhitedevilxx M wrote:

Ripley Riley wrote:

Himiko Kuronaga wrote:

Void Echo wrote:

When CCP leaves dust completely and abandons it, they will never be welcomed into the console market again, which is BTW at least 5x larger than the pc market cause millions on top of millions of people play on console.

I too, make up numbers and statistics on the spot.

What Himiko said.

There are something like 125,000,000 Steam users. That is just ONE venue for PC gamers to network and purchase games. GoG , Green Man Gaming, and others exist too. No idea what their numbers are like.

Compared to current gen console sales... XBONE is around 11mil, PS4 20mil, and WiiU 10mil. Total: 32mil current gen consoles sold. There are roughly 4 PC gamers for every console out there. If a company is looking for the larger market, they want PC.

Numbers and statistics are never wrong, what may be wrong is the guy who made them. Lol

You are making the same mistake CCP did with the PS3:

"There are over 80 millions PS3s around the world!".

- Consider how many PCs exist.

- Then consider how many people could have signed up a Steam account.

- Now consider how many people could have signed up multiple Steam accounts.

- Now consider this: the vast majority of games played on Steam are Strategy/ manager and MMORPGs with a few highly played FPS (Arma, CS).

- consider that an "online player" for steam, is not a playing player, as you can see here. In other words, Dota 2 alone covers half of the in-game players at its peak.

- Consider that a "much better" shooter right now (Planetside 2 on PC) has more or less the same active players of Dust514 on PS3. This alone should be enough to discourage CCP in porting Dust to PC. And even if there will always be more players on PC due to Eve players playing Dust/Legion, it would even be counterproductive for CCP: people would leave a subscription based game for a free to play.

Let's take a popular FPS and make a comparison:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

- PC sales 0.33 mln
- PS4 sales 6.44 mln
- Xbox one sales 4.35 mln
- PS3 sales 3.84 mln
- Xbox 360 sales 3.71

you could make a prevision of an hypothetical next-gen only COD by simply adding old gen + current gen so that:

PS4 = 10,28
Xbox One = 8,06

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Void Echo Helix Order Learning Alliance 2818	Posted - 2015.05.11 19:28:00 - [1] - Quote When CCP leaves dust completely and abandons it, they will never be welcomed into the consol market again, which is BTW at least 5x larger than the pc market cause millions on top of millions of people play on consol. Closed Beta Vet. CEO: Helix Order. I have the controlled anger, more dangerous than you.
Void Echo Helix Order Learning Alliance 2818	Posted - 2015.05.12 03:53:00 - [2] - Quote xxwhitedevilxx M wrote: Ripley Riley wrote: Himiko Kuronaga wrote: Void Echo wrote: When CCP leaves dust completely and abandons it, they will never be welcomed into the console market again, which is BTW at least 5x larger than the pc market cause millions on top of millions of people play on console. I too, make up numbers and statistics on the spot. What Himiko said. There are something like 125,000,000 Steam users. That is just ONE venue for PC gamers to network and purchase games. GoG , Green Man Gaming, and others exist too. No idea what their numbers are like. Compared to current gen console sales... XBONE is around 11mil, PS4 20mil, and WiiU 10mil. Total: 32mil current gen consoles sold. There are roughly 4 PC gamers for every console out there. If a company is looking for the larger market, they want PC. Numbers and statistics are never wrong, what may be wrong is the guy who made them. You are making the same mistake CCP did with the PS3: "There are over 80 millions PS3s around the world!". - Consider how many PCs exist. - Then consider how many people could have signed up a Steam account. - Now consider how many people could have signed up multiple Steam accounts. - Now consider this: the vast majority of games played on Steam are Strategy/ manager and MMORPGs with a few highly played FPS (Arma, CS). - consider that an "online player" for steam, is not a playing player, as you can see here. In other words, Dota 2 alone covers half of the in-game players at its peak. - Consider that a "much better" shooter right now (Planetside 2 on PC) has more or less the same active players of Dust514 on PS3. This alone should be enough to discourage CCP in porting Dust to PC. And even if there will always be more players on PC due to Eve players playing Dust/Legion, it would even be counterproductive for CCP: people would leave a subscription based game for a free to play. Let's take a popular FPS and make a comparison: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - PC sales 0.33 mln - PS4 sales 6.44 mln - Xbox one sales 4.35 mln - PS3 sales 3.84 mln - Xbox 360 sales 3.71 you could make a prevision of an hypothetical next-gen only COD by simply adding old gen + current gen so that: PS4 = 10,28 Xbox One = 8,06 This guy gets it. FPSs are meant for consoles not pc. Closed Beta Vet. CEO: Helix Order. I have the controlled anger, more dangerous than you.