A nice article about the potential future of dust

http://crossingzebras.com/dust-514-is-not-dead/

Didn't claim it was more than that. Still nice to hear something optimistic about dust' future right? Even if its just speculation.

A nice article about the potential future of dust

http://crossingzebras.com/dust-514-is-not-dead/

Speculation is better than narcissism.

Realism is better then living in a fantasy world. Dust is dead in the water and is just one big money grab at this point. All I see is a bunch of cool aid drinking fanboys. Most of the bitter vets are fed up and have left. What's left of this community is a joke. Take CCP's nuts out of your mouth. It's effecting your judgement.

Realists are what pessimists call themselves. As for your other comment, why do you think I left in the first place? Because this game sucked. I come back and a lot of things are leaps and bounds better than they were. I have been getting great matches, no lag, and no exploitation (other than jumpy people) so far.

The game still sucks no matter how you want to dress it up. A pile of sh*t will always just be a pile of **** no matter how much glitter you sprinkle on it.

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan

but also partly due to the playerbases uncalled for reaction. Instead of asking questions, they immediately assumed they were left in the dust.

There is a reason this community doesn't have hope in CCP. People can have hope that the south will rise again. That doesn't mean it is ever going to happen. CCP has a track record of failure with this game. Having hope in CCP at this point is irrational and a bit delusional to be quite honest. Being here since day one of closed beta killed any faith I ever used to have in CCP. All they do is fail fail fail no matter what. Honestly if they did port this game I see it being a huge disaster.

Fail fail and fail you say? I'm looking through the dev posts and all they have been doing is trying their best and communicating with the playerbase to the best of their extent. I bet you if he could, Rattati would up and make a dev blog explicitly saying what the future is going to be. The only thing is, he can't, why? Because if he did he would be fired, without a job, maybe even on the street.

Constant updates and you say there is no hope? I say we don't have enough hope.

The dust IP is worth money and they will either abandon it or make a port. I can't imagine they will abandon it while so many games around seem to prove that the idea has solid potential. The how and why of it remains to be seen because after screwing up the media campaign they decided to have radio silence. Which is fitting for a big company with a commercial agenda. There is nothing personal about it, its just business.

I am always suprised to see how many dust haters seem to hang out on these forums. What are you doing here? It is a forum for an old niche game. I understand you don't like the game but maybe its time to move on. CCP cheated you and mistreated you. Go to other games and be happy. There is nothing here for you.

we used to have 24 versus 24

we used to have a two stage map

we used to have defined roles for heavy suit hmg, light scout strafer and tanky duvolle ar assault but they got wiped along with an actual survival value to proto suits.

we used to have actual value in prototype tanks but they got wiped

as far as a future on the PS3 ? well Sony just said the PS3 is being discontinued in New Zealand in 2015

Who cares about a dumpy little island?

Proto tanks were op cry moar.

Lol there was never perfect balance in the game, you mean when all anyone knew to run was cal assault and we had what 1/16th of the content we do now? Lol ok, no you're right the game would've prospered more if it stayed exactly the same as it did in chrome.

I have never seen anything about any match more than 16 players, I remember corp battles were limited to 6. Show proof then you can cry about it lol.

newberries like you are comedy gold

use google fu next time

the 24 versus 24 was called replication.

I did and no proof lol

Hey maybe you have one of those diseases where people think things were better in the past than they are now.

You know like how people rave about the 50s, but forget to talk about how scared they were of commies?

dumberries lol

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-22-dust-514-preview-is-bigger-always-better

By Jon Denton Published 22/08/2012

Much has already been written about Dust 514's extraordinary connectivity with the bustling mega-MMO Eve Online, and impressive it certainly is. Grand ideas like this always sound like game-changers when they're first spluttered into the ether, but as with any big machine, it needs its cogs and gears to be grinding together smoothly or it'll all fall apart.

Hence, then, CCP's closed beta for its ambitious online PS3 exclusive - a weekend-long trial that saw avid Eve-rs pay a moderate sum to help stress test and sample Dust 514's 48-player skirmishes. Diving in myself, two things immediately struck me.

This is not kindergarden people. Behave.

Ayy I thought you said it was in game, not in a demo. Lol your character wasn't even created by then.

Keep telling yourself whatever you need to believe to make you feel like it was better ok honey

All characters got wiped.
I was there.
Closed beta was the promised game.

Unlike the pathetic letdown it devolved to.

But you keep drinking that ccp coolaid.

Sure buddy I believe you. If any of that was true you wouldn't be around, so it's not true, but whatever lies you need tell yourself to sleep at night ok honey