Literally no one wants a straight-up port of DUST as it is right now. No one. What we want is for DUST to be fixed and improved upon during the transition period. That's not to say that we should have DUST perfect on the PS3 before we port, as that's not going to happen, and is not going to help.

We want DUST to be as it was intended to be. We want the glorious dream realised, and we want it on a more powerful system that can handle all that. A more powerful system that actually isn't dead/dying. Perhaps that will mean that DUST will cease to exist for a time whilst the new version is made. Who knows how long this will take. Over a year? Perhaps. But I'm sure we would all believe it would be worth the wait, to have DUST as it was meant to be, completed and perfect, fully integrated with EVE.

Remaking the game would just cause more problems. Its very hard to code and with a relaunch there would be soooooo many bugs

DUST was never made as it was supposed to be from the start. How can you fix something that never existed?

Except autistic babies
(i really hope i dont get banned for that lol)

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Go and have a look at some of the grand ideas that were being promoted before DUST was even released.

Now come back to me and say we are playing that game.

Pro tip: You can't.

I thought that people knew that when we say "port dust" we also intended that dust be improved/changed/fixedup/reworked/rewritten/watever in the process of porting it. Improving the game is kinda why alot of us want a port. A straight port of how dust currently is now would be bad because of how broken it is.

As it has been said multiple times in this thread: we are not looking for a copy/paste of the current Dust code. Pay attention.

A port would give CCP the opportunity to correct legacy code mistakes as they migrate from PS3 to PC/PS4. And, as Mobius mentioned, it probably isn't possible to do a direct copy/paste of Dust code anyway due to the PS3's strange OS.

EVE forums are hardly the place to get proper well thought out info about DUST. They don't know much at all about this game.
They act like they do, but from what I've seen they only know what marketing and the Mittani shoved down their throats. And even that's not accurate often times.


Anyway, the engine we use now IS a heavily modified UE3.
It's closer to what Legion uses than stock UE3.

There is plenty to fix in Dust 514 that would not involve copy/pasting so I'm not sure what you are getting at here ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

No, actually, that is not the case. The PS3 is out of memory and the legacy code is a nightmare. Add to that, the PS3 is a console in it's dying days. The PS4 is the most rapidly growing console on the market and PC is... well... it's PC (see: massive potential customer base). ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) You can polish the turd that is Dust (PS3) all you want, but Dust is sunk if it remains on PS3 for very much longer. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

If what we saw at FF14 was put on the PS3 the damn thing would explode into deadly shrapnel.

Bruh, fixing it on the PS3 would mean that the game would still be limited by what the PS3 can do.

Fixing it while porting it to PS4/PC would give the developers greater flexibility for the game moving forward.

All great games and all utilized the PS3's capabilities to the fullest. So you want to devote potentially thousands of labor hours polishing Dust 514 on the PS3 so it can meet the minimum standard of quality for a LAST GENERATION console?

No, if CCP is going to spend that much time on something then it would be better spent putting Dust on PC/PS4 where the game has a chance to actually grow. Adding to this, the PC/PS4 are easier to develop for in general. We want to make updating Dust as painless as possible for CCP and the PS3's weird cell architecture hinders them.

Out of curiosity... you don't have a mid-range PC or PS4, do you?

If Dust is to be ported then CCP will have to rebuild many parts of the game from the ground up and, in the process, correct mistakes they made along the way. Shanghai is under new management now with CCP Rouge and Rattati at the helm, two people who have done their absolute best with what they were given. How about we let them put Dust on PC/PS4 where it can shine?

And I will state again that by the time you work out all the kinks and bugs in current iteration of Dust 514 our concurrent logins will be peaking at 500 on the weekends. The time required to fix Dust (PS3) at this point offers a very poor return on investment.