EVE bro... wait for EVE

Explorable spaces does not an MMO make.

Instead of being like Battlefield 3 with a really fancy room that you wait in.

This game is marketed as an MMO, touted as being on a scale that is unprecedented, and right now, it has absolutely nothing over the vast amount of other shooters out right now that have pretty much the same mechanics. Maybe not the same skill system and fitting system, but I'm not such a big fan of that anyway in this game... not the point though.

This game needs SOMETHING to make it an MMO. Some open world. Something explorable. Some city, open land, I don't know, SOMETHING, especially a something where we can interact with others outside of the battlefield.

Can we ever expect something like this?

Sorry to break this for you but open world or something explorable isn't a requirement for MMO game. It just means a online multiplayer game with massive amount of players able to interact together.

I never said it did.

This game needs SOMETHING to make it an MMO. Some open world. Something explorable. Some city, open land, I don't know, SOMETHING, especially a something where we can interact with others outside of the battlefield.

You implied it wasn't an MMO unless it had those things.

You're misisng the point that none of the MMO aspect is really in place yet. It's a beta. It's not done. We're currently testing the basic gameplay.

I've played Eve for quite a long time.

Obviously not long enough ... have you not heard about 'Walking in Stations' and the bars and lounges and casinos n everything else that will enable. This was the whole reason behind the full on upgrade of the character customization and the Aurum clothes market and the new station quarters rather than the old ship spinning hanger.

The whole social scene outside that station quarters door is Soon TM but development of the FPS client has taken a priority at the moment which for one ... I'm quite pleased about !!

No, I implied that it isn't an MMO unless it has some function to interact with other players on a very large scale

This game needs SOMETHING to make it an MMO. Some open world. Something explorable. Some city, open land, I don't know, SOMETHING, especially a something where we can interact with others outside of the battlefield.

If you read what you wrote (which I conventently quoted for you), you said a lot about an open explorable space and then at the very end mentioned something about interaction. Maybe that's not what you meant, but that's what your post said.

(emphasis added by me)

If that's what you're looking for, you may be in for a long wait. You're thinking too much in the traditional WoW-esque idea of an MMO. EVE still doesn't have anything yet like that and it's been in development for 10 years. We still can't walk around a station and explore or socialize. We're confied to our quarters just like in DUST. EVE has chat channels and mail, both of which DUST already has.

If you're looking for ways to interact with lots of players through the market, politics, and warfare, that will almost certainly be in by release, probably by open beta later this year. Corps are coming by the end of this month.

You can speculate all you want also. I asked a very clear question that has not been answered. Currently, we just have an FPS with a very nice room. What is going to make this game an MMO?

If you have trouble reading, that's your problem. What I said is very clear in that we need something where we can interact outside the battlefield, implied on a very large scale, in order to make this an MMO and no comment has been made on what this will involve. I know what Eve has and is, I've been playing it for a VERY long time, but it does have it's own way of delivering exactly what is required for a game to be an MMO, where there is a universe of players that can freely interact socially on a large scale, which Dust doesn't really have and the comment on how it will be an MMO has not been made yet.

You can speculate all you want also. I asked a very clear question that has not been answered. Currently, we just have an FPS with a very nice room. What is going to make this game an MMO?

Instead of being like Battlefield 3 with a really fancy room that you wait in.

This game is marketed as an MMO, touted as being on a scale that is unprecedented, and right now, it has absolutely nothing over the vast amount of other shooters out right now that have pretty much the same mechanics. Maybe not the same skill system and fitting system, but I'm not such a big fan of that anyway in this game... not the point though.

This game needs SOMETHING to make it an MMO. Some open world. Something explorable. Some city, open land, I don't know, SOMETHING, especially a something where we can interact with others outside of the battlefield.

Can we ever expect something like this?

Instead of being like Battlefield 3 with a really fancy room that you wait in.

This game is marketed as an MMO, touted as being on a scale that is unprecedented, and right now, it has absolutely nothing over the vast amount of other shooters out right now that have pretty much the same mechanics. Maybe not the same skill system and fitting system, but I'm not such a big fan of that anyway in this game... not the point though.

This game needs SOMETHING to make it an MMO. Some open world. Something explorable. Some city, open land, I don't know, SOMETHING, especially a something where we can interact with others outside of the battlefield.

Can we ever expect something like this?

I doubt it.

I think it'll always be a basic FPS with the added RPG elements. There may be a social area of some sort added in future and a bump in player numbers but I think a few people here are being rather unrealistic when you consider the hardware the game is being rendered on.

Good thread though...I can't see a dev answering any of your queries but it's nice to speculate.