I am a long time player of Dust. I first learned of it from P.S.N. Home, and have been slowly building on it ever since. I have a daily sign in of nearly 1 year which shows you how much I like the game.

Dust514 could have been a money maker and still can be, closing the game down is not necessary. All you needed to add was a small open wandering world type of area with little daily goals to achieve, a little in game chatbox, and a third rate story line, with fourth rate acting voices, which even you the developers could have had fun and did yourself. Look at DC Universe, Their game was a PS2 game that they forced onto PS3, it had just as many issues or MORE when it came to lagging and staying connected, shutdowns for maintenance were almost weekly and each had a nearly 30 to 45 minute wait... They later overhauled it to work better with PS3, at the cost of no new content for a looooong while but once they fixed it it thrived to the point of them crossing it over to the PS4.

You all are the creators of EVE, and I know the game makes money. As boring as it is, it have been around for over a decade, what kept it alive was the massive story, the people did the rest. The never ending pursuit to screw somebody over while smiling in their face is an age old flaw of humanity and is hard pressed to go anywhere anytime soon.

Yes a major overhaul would hurt, but it would be well worth it in the end, especially on the PS4. There is still no other game quite like this one. And I play your (would be) biggest rival: "Planetside 2".
Planetside has vast islands a working night and day system, less of a grind rate, and more vehicles and suit classes that you can shake a stick at, but lacks the most basic element that you all nailed early to make the game feel real, the body impact engine. When I hit someone with a plasma round in my Magrider tank, their bodies are supposed to fly. Instead they just kind of faint in a 1 of 4 possible uniform ways... As epic as their game is, it too, lacks true daily objectives and a true story-line. Not to mention their air-vehicle flight engine feels fake, Child TOY fake.

But anyway, I kind of went off subject, I am a Playstation user, my computers are not for games. The few I have tried on PC have been out right plagued with hackers and cheaters. Even Planetside on PS4, due to it's melding with the PC has an issue with Aimbots. I play play PS to excape them. I am going to wait until you all release the game on PS4 again. If that never happens well so be it. There were a lot of things you all were supposed to do for this game that you never did, (A full Player to Player market, true linking to Eve, Ect.) And that has me nervous to invest into anything else you will make in the future. It took 2 years and a couple grand to get my character the way I wanted it, and you all are packing up your toys and shipping out? It doesn't matter what you learned from the game if you fail to learn customer loyalty. By the looks of the Warbarge this game was supposed to last decades, just getting it to level 5 in one area took months over months. To me the very least you could do is make it a multiplayer home game so we can play on our own or with friends through link play. Or just say: "Hey folks, we have decided to go in a new direction with the game, so to that end there will be no more new content, and we are boiling down the staff to keep the game running only. " "Only major issues will be addressed, (Such as the inability to sign in and play) but it may take time." and let the game go on. Sell it, or GIVE it to me. I will find a way to do this; because there are still a lot of people who play, and new players come everyday. It is a free to play game and is a go-to for when times get rough and you cannot afford to play any of the games that require subscriptions. Not even DC Universe can say that... If you have not bought the content the game all but halts even to the point of you not being able to use equipment if you do not have the slots.

So yes, this was my first topic. I have always watched but never had a real reason to say anything. I did most of my talking on the field, with BULLETS & spent SHELLS. =o'..'~=