Not really.

If more than a year of asking has produced nothing, if people(foolishly, IMO) still pumping money into a game that has effectively finished development hasn't convinced CCP to announce the port is in production, it is more likely that there isn't anything being worked on.

I think if CCP had something to show they would have, because it would spur the whales to spend more because the games permanence had been saved.

Are you certain? I'm pretty sure SP doesn't build if your account is expired.
(I know back in the day you could accrue data-cores on unpaid accounts and activate the account later to harvest them, but that was fixed.)

I actually had not seen the "Greed is Good" memos. After reading any of those how can a single person here really argue that Dust is going to leave PS3 a single day before it goes negative.

People need to stop spending money on this game like yesterday so that we have a chance of a port.

AFAIK, it just looks that way.

IIRC, it stops 36-72 hours after your sub lapses

I've had stupid long queues (hundreds of days) on some of my accounts and when they lapse, they don't make it much past the lapse.

When we had 24 hour queues I have lapsed and had 2 week skills queued and remain unfinished despite lapsing for 1-2 months

No it is not a catch 22 at all. CCP is not going to spend millions of dollars on making the switch when they can sit around here on PS3, spending little money on a skeleton crew and depart fools from their money at what seems to be a rapidly expanding pace.



In the memo about Incarna he says:




What exactly are we "doing" by sitting here pumping money into a dead console that we all say we want to get off of?

Obviously CCP is simply realizing that they are free to go crazy with the lines of thinking that went caused such an uprising in Incarna.

Why is it that no one is even willing to ***** about the fact that CCP is attempting to charge well over $1000 for the cool down on the warbarge just to get 1% more damage?

The problem is that it would take significant time to create a port to any other console / platform. This is because if you are going to take the time to do a port then you can be assured that the developers are going to try and make right on as many of the issues of the past as possible. DUST is full of development cheats and choices that the current development team (or at least CCP Rattati) is unhappy with. Anything they plan to do with a move to the next generation will likely include a massive refactor of the codebase that will take both time, effort, and plenty of planning and expectation of future development.

None of these processes are easy or quick, and will take -significant- development time. This means one of two things to the future of a port: either it happens "soon"(tm) and this is because they were working on it for a long time coming, or they see our messages and they begin work only now, at which point it will take a long period of time from now. (perhaps even more than a year depending on development resources, and how fundamental their refactor may have to be) In either case we won't see any actionable response on CCP about this matter.

The reason we won't see CCP talking about anything relating to a port (in concrete details) is because CCP has shifted fundamental policies on what they are willing to talk about or promise since events such as Incarna and the Rogue Wedding. The CCP that has weathered those events has taken the course of action to only talk about things that 1) They want Feedback on, or 2) Are about to come out. You may disagree or find issue with that policy, but you have to agree that it seems that is the course they are taking. In relation to a Port the decision to move it to any number of platforms is a very high level one, and not one they would put out for community feedback on. Thus, given their current policy, the only time CCP will speak of a port is when they are ready (or nearly so) to put it out for serious evaluation.

That all said, I bought a PS3 for DUST 514, and have yet to regret it. Should it move to PS4, I will likely do the same, and if it moves to PC then I am well prepared to receive it.