Its unoptimized and really buggy

Plus its just randoms in a game, its like a giant public match really and when you wake up you have lost what you fought for

No end game at all

Planetside 2 is far better than Dust, sorry guys. Player count, graphically, it plays in real time with a day/night cycle just to name a few. It's an ongoing battle that never ends unlike dust where you jump into a twenty minute fight where you get stomped on, or spawn trap the enemy. As far as bugs, don't even try to say that Dust wasn't just awful when we started playing. Everything has bugs when it first comes out. I do have high hopes for Dust and can't wait to see the improvements that are implemented over time.

Been watching a few vids of people playing it, and I can't help but wish dust was more like it, dust plays like the poor man's planetside, how do you think they compare?

DUST is meant to eventually have meaning combat where battles affect other players.
PS2 has no meaning to its combat, you can fight in the same place for 5 hours straight and it can be fun, but once you and your outfit are offline, the randoms will lose that place you held for so long and you'll get pushed back again. Theres also the fact theres no reason to actually "win". And then theres the whole, if you're losing just switch to an alt and fight on a different continent, it's dull and boring.

Dust can become a kitty litter box through which you can dig a tunnel to china.

Planetside 2 is far better than Dust, sorry guys. Player count, graphically, it plays in real time with a day/night cycle just to name a few. It's an ongoing battle that never ends unlike dust where you jump into a twenty minute fight where you get stomped on, or spawn trap the enemy. As far as bugs, don't even try to say that Dust wasn't just awful when we started playing. Everything has bugs when it first comes out. I do have high hopes for Dust and can't wait to see the improvements that are implemented over time.

Planetside 2 is far better than Dust, sorry guys. Player count, graphically, it plays in real time with a day/night cycle just to name a few. It's an ongoing battle that never ends unlike dust where you jump into a twenty minute fight where you get stomped on, or spawn trap the enemy. As far as bugs, don't even try to say that Dust wasn't just awful when we started playing. Everything has bugs when it first comes out. I do have high hopes for Dust and can't wait to see the improvements that are implemented over time.

It all comes down to appeal, if you dont play Eve than planet side 2 appeals more to you than Dust. If you do play Eve than Dust has far more potential then planet side 2.

Skirmish is not going to drag BF3 players away from BF3, I wish it did.
Ambush is not going to drag COD players away from Blops2, i wish it did.

but on the other hand if you told them you could then play both modes together with 1999 other players that SOE is selling well . Where CCP keeps trying to sell Eve to people that dont play Eve or own a computer with the market and Eve space changing. Non of the reviews on Dust ever say the concept is crap, just their not sure what it offers to the player that doesnt play Eve on the PS3 mostly.

Yes there are exceptions to the rules

I hope so, with open beta next week. It really sounds pretty off to me that a company would go open beta with 80% of its game missing when even its player base saids the game is not strong enough to go open beta but we will see. I hope 80% percent does get added because the game cant feel like a mini game add on to Eve but more as a independent game to non Eve players.

The bugginess/etc difference between Dust and Planetside 2 isn't worth commenting on. Both Dust and PS2 have performance issues, have bugs, have stuff that needs to be fixed via rebalancing. Neither game strikes me as any better balanced, less buggy, more optimized. And certainly Planetside 2 has handled the issue of snipers in big, open maps far, far better than Dust has. Snipers in Planetside 2 shoot bullets that have to travel to their targets, which drop over time, and the scope of their rifle always sways unless you use a "hold breath" button that gives you a couple seconds of steady aim. Snipers in Planetside 2 are a valuable addition to the game, but they don't dominate fights. Unlike in Dust.

The games are totally different in terms of how they play. They cater to different tastes. I like Planetside 2, but I like Dust's depth and detail more. I like when death has consequence, I like fights which are scaled such that my actions actually make a difference. In Planetside, being one guy in an army of 600 people means you kind of fade into obscurity. You can't really hope to make much of an impact yourself.

The lack of any end-game isn't really a sensible comparison. Dust has no end game either. Eventually it will, but eventually Planetside 2 will have outfits building bases and going to war with each other over resources and stuff. Comparing how Dust will be in a year to how Planetside is right now isn't very fair.