The starter kits are free and infinitely useable for a reason sir. Don't go spending ISK on stuff you'll just lose 30 seconds later because you're a scrub.

People hear the term MMO and see a shooter with space suits and immediatly freak out "OMG ITS NOT PLANETSIDE/DEFIANCE THIS GAME IS **** OH GOD IM TERRIBLE AT THE GAME LIKE EVERYONE IS WHEN THEY STARTED PLAYING BUT ILL BLAME MY LACK OF SKILL AND EXPERIENCE ON THE GAME DESIGN INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY LEARNING HOW TO GET GOOD LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO SMOKE MY ASS EVERYTIME I PLAY. NEVERMIND THE FACT THAT THEY OBVIOUSLY CAN SPAWN AND GET KILLS DESPITE THE 'BROKEN' MECHANIC THAT PREVENTS ME FROM HAXXORING THE NEWBS THAT I TOTALLY AM NOT"

MMO = Massive Multiplayer Online Game

Massive:
Dust consists of multiple battles between mercenary ground forces using infantry weapons and equipment to secure planets. Planets are part of a persistent online universe connected to EVE online. There are 67,253 planets in EVE, most of which will be playable eventually. Currently we only fight for Temperate planets, for a total of 7200 different planets. With the addition of Planetary conquest, a large chunk of those planets will be able to be captured, controlled, and fought for by players. Corps will have to move troops around, allocate resources, and defend territory to keep their empire alive. This system will be expanded further as the beta progresses.

Dust514 is a MASSIVE game

Multiplayer:
At any given moment there are tens of thousands of pilots in the skies in EVE, meaning all the more people on standby to nuke you from orbit. The numbers for Dust are unconfirmed, but estimates place the number of characters in the hundreds of thousands. EVE and Dust work well in tandem and although the connection is infantile right now, they do help and support one another if you participate in Corp Battles and Faction Warfare. The EVE/Dust Universe has thousands upon thousands of players doing battle and fighting for dominance in the universe all the time.

Dust514 is a MULTIPLAYER game

Online:
Duh.

Dust514 is an ONLINE game.



....So anyone who says Dust isn't an MMO is a moron. Just because you're in your merc quarters between battles doesn't mean the fighting in the universe has stopped. The fight is ongoing and endless, players and corporations vying for dominance in a harsh world. Dust514 is the posterchild for an alternative style of MMO and all the QQers would do well to realize that.

I'll stick with defiance for now. Just thought Dust would be more open. Couldn't afford Defiance at the time and this game was advertised as an MMO and I was just a bit gutted when it wasn't what I expected. Defiance is awesome though, glad I bought it, it is everything I expected... a true MMO! Might give Dust another try in six months, hopefully it will have improved VASTLY! Can't see anyone in their right mind spending any hard earned real money at the store just yet though!

MMO = Massive Multiplayer Online Game

Massive:
Dust consists of multiple battles between mercenary ground forces using infantry weapons and equipment to secure planets. Planets are part of a persistent online universe connected to EVE online. There are 67,253 planets in EVE, most of which will be playable eventually. Currently we only fight for Temperate planets, for a total of 7200 different planets. With the addition of Planetary conquest, a large chunk of those planets will be able to be captured, controlled, and fought for by players. Corps will have to move troops around, allocate resources, and defend territory to keep their empire alive. This system will be expanded further as the beta progresses.

Dust514 is a MASSIVE game

Multiplayer:
At any given moment there are tens of thousands of pilots in the skies in EVE, meaning all the more people on standby to nuke you from orbit. The numbers for Dust are unconfirmed, but estimates place the number of characters in the hundreds of thousands. EVE and Dust work well in tandem and although the connection is infantile right now, they do help and support one another if you participate in Corp Battles and Faction Warfare. The EVE/Dust Universe has thousands upon thousands of players doing battle and fighting for dominance in the universe all the time.

Dust514 is a MULTIPLAYER game

Online:
Duh.

Dust514 is an ONLINE game.



....So anyone who says Dust isn't an MMO is a moron. Just because you're in your merc quarters between battles doesn't mean the fighting in the universe has stopped. The fight is ongoing and endless, players and corporations vying for dominance in a harsh world. Dust514 is the posterchild for an alternative style of MMO and all the QQers would do well to realize that.

I spent most of my day off, yesterday, trying to give this game a chance. All I am saying, is that at this moment in time it does not rate as an MMO and at THIS MOMENT IN TIME IT IS POSITIVELY PANTS!!!! JUST MY OPINION IN WHICH I AM ENTITLED!

Mad bro?

Also I pretty much just explain why it is an MMO, if you would like to calmly explain how I am wrong I would love to see your rebuttal. But right now you're just screaming and it's making you look foolish.



I am calm, you're the one going into full on rage mode with caps Like I said, I laid out a logical argument for why Dust is classified as an MMO. You can either admit I'm right, or you can lay out your logical explanation on why it is not an MMO. I'm sorry that you don't like the game, but that doesn't change it's classification in regards to its genre.

Simply because all the MMOs I've ever played have more than 20 people running around shooting each other on a relatively small map. Not exactly diverse, either. It's like they've just got the PVP element of an MMO. MMOs have a hundred times more people playing on one large map. Not sure how this game is going to progress in the future, but for now, to me and other people I know that are hard core MMO-rs, this doesn't qualify.

Calm people do not go around callin people morons! Or are you gonna lay ot a full page explaining THAT to be untue ha ha

Tell you the truth pokey, the reason I didn't respond to your full page layout "explanation" is because I only read the first line as it was seriously boring and far too painful to read on!
Didn't expect everyone to start crying coz I didn't like their game!

Obviously you got thought the whole post since you saw me call you a moron at the end.

Hi there new comer. Let me show you our rules:

1. Adapt or Die. This cannot be stressed enough. Learn it. Live it. Love it.

2. Do not under any circumstance use what you cannot afford to lose. If you do it anyways, you are taking a big risk and CCP will just point and laugh at you with the rest of the community. Not every game you play needs a proto suit.

3. If it's too good to be true, it's probably a scam. Scams have been a common occurrence since Eve Online began and there is no doubt Dust can see this happening already. If you fall for a scam, it's not CCP's fault nor that of the community. You were just too stupid to do your research before falling for it. Again, you will be laughed at. Oh, and scams are allowed in the game.

4. Do not underestimate the organizational capacity of the inhabitants of New Eden (in both Eve and Dust). You will be surprised and amazed at what this community can do already. Yeah, we love New Eden that much. We even have the capacity to burn our own economy if we want. The last time anyone did that, CCP just stood by and ate popcorn while the carebears cried for help. Cry me a river, Justin Timberlake. Cry me a river.

5. Do not trust anyone but yourself. It's not a matter of if you'll get back stabbed. It's only a matter of when. When you do get back stabbed, pray that you are ready by then.

6. Skill Points mean nothing if the user doesn't know what he's doing.

If you do not like these rules, please leave our game because we don't want you here. Thank you for your co-operation.

Yeah..! Just from that I'm gonna give it another go! Seems I have a lot of research to do too. Might even check out EVE online.

GOSH>>> GET OVER YOURSELF AND CALM DOWN! I AM NOT BEING RUDE TO PEOPLE, LIKE YOU ARE! I'M JUST GIVING MY OPINION ABOUT THE GAME.

Dust 514 is specifically a "MMO/FPS Hybrid". (as defined by CCP itself).

There are traits that many MMOs share that Dust does not yet have; Specifically, PVE content, and lots of non-combat sets to explore and handle out-of-battle errands on.

MMO traits are currently on the back burner.
FPS traits are the primary focus for now.

Right now, development is focused on the PvP FPS balances and mechanics, and rightly so. Because in the long term, making sure THAT is properly balanced is what will ensure Dust's survival.
You need not look any further than the Feedback/Requests section to recognize that many things related to this need more tweaking.
Once the PvP and FPS aspects have been ironed out, we can move on to installing the PVE MMO elements that you so crave.

I highly recommend that you DO NOT abandon the game for six months, as EVERYONE'S input on the development of Dust is important to the process.
The more input and support Dust gets, the faster development will move along.

It's important to recognize, that as you play Dust 514 in its current state; you are a TESTER first, and a PLAYER second. You are a beta tester. If you focus on just being a player, you will quickly recognize you are playing an incomplete game.
Try to be objective on your view as a whole.

(Been playing online games for 14 years... boy do i miss the days when people understood what a Beta was... Imagine what they would say if they were Alpha testers!)

Whom ever Labeled this game as an MMO needs to actually play an MMO! It's just a very poor FPS! Frustratingly bad! Spend hours buying equipment for your character to have them taken away in the blink of an eye as you coninuously keep respawning in the middle of enemies without firing one singlr round of your new weapon! Fantastic waste of time, no wonder it's free!!!