Guys when Dust starts there will be:

PVE (drone regions or/and probably wormhole exploration)- for those who likes some kinde of mobs or lone wolf play

PVP in high sec space / low sec space (factional warfare) for guys who wan't a pvp with meaning but not to deep ;)

PVP in null sec. Some kind of deepest gameplay for hadcore gamers. Close integration to EVE players

PVP like today in beta but with more customization /game mods / maps for casual players.

Some big events in EVE/DUST engaging a lot of players

IT'S FREE :)

Explain me how this model could fail? Ofcourse when all technical stuff will work well not like today.

Its a beta but tbh for me its better than all other FPS shooters i have

Finally a topic where i can relate and actually debate.

1. I think this game might be a bit too complex for a simple gamer. This is almost a fact. There are no other FPS's out there that you have to build a character with skill points in certain areas. This for the immediate reality will hurt the community because it will make certain people not want to play thanks to them not understanding the power of specialization and determination to get specific skills in order. Although in the end i think this is how the game will flourish because it is different from everything else. Which will also lead to my second point.

Dust is not complex!
Everything is just explained very badly or not explained at all.
Dust takes 10 words to say "Hi" and 6 steps to go from a menu to another while 2 would suffice.
People don't understand some mechanics because there is not an explanation for them, anywhere.
Take chess: you can learn how each piece can move in 2 minutes but it will takes years to become good at it.
Dust is the opposite: intricate, ill conceived explanation for a simple, very immediate, gameplay such as the one in FPS.

2. Please stop relating this to COD. You will not see most of the COD community here because they are dedicated to COD and COD play. If it takes more than 3 bullets to kill someone you will not draw the COD community. IMO this game is more like battlefield, especially battlefield 2 for those of you who used to play, in the fact that it takes strategy a bit of team work and staying together as a team to win a round. Capturing points in this game is going to be important. Who isnt going to love getting a reward from someone who doesnt even play ur game because you held a planet for them in a different game. This is why i think this game will draw a decent amount of the battlefield community.

TTK was never used to compare Dust to COD.
I prefer very low TTK but I as well understand high the reasons TTK shooter.
Capturing planets/points will be important but if it's not funny it's pointless.
This is a VG and fun should be number 1 priority and not make a great concept.
The lackluster gameplay is not making Dust funny for me and many other.
Dust should look at COD for how to make things fun, because millions of people have fun in COD
I do't like COD because it's too arcade but it's undoubtly funny if you accept it for what tit is.

3. As a disclaimer i have to say that I am not an Eve player but trust me im not even close to a noob in eve ;). I have lived with and or hung out with an Eve player who has been part of BoB in the good old days, fought with titans and carriers and motherships (supercarriers) so i know how to make load outs and everything. In saying this I do believe I have a jump on most non Eve players because i realize tanking is important. I realize you cant both shield and armour tank something (usually). But also i have taught my 15 year old brother the basics of Eve logic and even he picked it up in under a week. This leads to my fourth point.

4. Any good FPS player with an Eve sponsor and mentor can easily pick this game up and start to kick some ass. This game has the ability to become something big because of cool things like orbital strikes and shared markets and isk and all that. Basically, if we stick to it and do our jobs by telling CCP what we see wrong with the game i feel we can make on of the biggest online games with a dedicated following who wont need to go out and buy a new product every year.

And this is what's wrong with Dust.
This is a FPS, the only things you need to be good are you reflexes and you tactical thinking.
Why should I need a EVE player to teach me how to shoot in a FPS when I have been doing it for ages?
What EVE players can do is to tech me the "vocabulary" of EVE but not much more.
In-game skills and the rest here are used to establish a connection with EVE and as I said countless of times what works for EVE gamepaly does not work for FPS gamepaly.
Stats in FSP have no place because it's a genre in which the player has total control of the action.

Moral of the story... Stop bitching and keep playing. If you dont like the aiming try a keyboard and mouse. If you hate tankers try researching swarm lauchers and forge guns. Finally, go through and read the perks to every skill people... some things have hidden perks like researching assualt rifle operations doesnt make it stronger but instead makes it more accurate... that was a shocker to me but ill be damned its nice to have a more accurate rifle.

Stats, stats and more stats.
You what the game to help you while in FPS we want as little help as possible from the game.
That is RPG/EVE mentality where players without the right in-game skill are useless, while in FPS a player with talent/skill and the basic gear is deadly.

I'm still trying to figure out whether this game is more P2W, or more G(rind)2W. P2C(hat) runs along the lines of being a big portion of ccp's P2W philosophy, since in the grand scheme of things communication with EvE players will be extremely vital to WINNING