Good breakdown.
I dont think this will silence those calling for a port (feel like most are just complaining to complain: complaint without seeking relief)
Does however give info for cooler heads to discuss with those whom are averse to the toxic environment which is the forums.

This is more like what most people who have thought about it have realized for 1.5 years. It's a huge assumption to think that CCP were referencing profitability relative to the 20m down investment. Frankly I doubt that Dust has, overall, run a profit for CCP, when you consider the interest on the loans and the $20m+ spent.

Your porting logic isn't really very solid. You've come to the realization that Dust is in a very precarious position and that porting to another platform is a venture that CCP very well might not be able to justify on a business basis, which is airtight. But suggesting that they can procrastinate on a porting decision is incorrect. The PSN for PS3's has maybe a year or two more in it before Sony shuts it down, and the resource constraints that the PS3 introduces on the product itself has every evidence and potential to deflate the number of both payers and players as time goes on.

The game's coming to a tipping point where profitability on a ported version is concerned, as opposed to investing in blue ocean products (for instance in the VR space). Either they need to start developing a ported version now so that they have a port ready before PS3's get cut from the PSN and that their community doesn't atrophy so much that it doesn't cover operating costs, or they need to decide that they're not porting at all so that they can lay out a road map for slowly abandoning assets (like extra servers) that cause operating costs. They'll wean off operating costs so that they can maintain profitability for the longest possible period, before pulling the plug entirely.


Showing that the current community is active, passionate, and are still desperate to support Dust to the point of wanting it to continue to exist on another platform, that can only be to the good in convincing CCP to make the decision to port. That decision is coming up. I appreciate the thread- it consolidates some pieces of information some people probably didn't know. But the conclusion is just poppycock.

I don't think most of the money came from the bonds since Dust was in development since 2007 or 2008. I think this was a video from fanfest 2008 https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazykinux/3013464882/

I think they more like they didn't have enough money so they got a loan.

I agree that it probably isn't the best time to do a port, but at the same time they are probably running out of time and CCP isn't investing into Dust right now, a port would not be possible right now most likely .

on PS4 so many more players would play dust....so much more income for CCP.

Playerbase is so low not because the game sucks but because no one plays PS3 anymore (except us)

I will not put any money into CCP for crowd funding another game.

I will not even advocate or spread word of it.

I'm not going to do the work for CCP. They can put something out there and show promise. Along with that, a more competent dev team like we have now; however, knowing CCP now, I will not put any money into any future games until it is fairly balanced.