A game this complicated and in-depth was never meant to be for a console... If PC players had access then it might be acceptable...

But the following factors will lead this game to its inevitable doom:

PS3 only - minimised target audience, and supports casual gamers over people who will take it seriously like on EVE.

Overcomplexity - a game this complicated should never have been designed for a console, people just won't spend months and months training just to up their game by a fraction. This would be the case in EVE since it is PC and people are more dedicated, but on PS3 people just won't keep up to it... This game would have been better as an RTS, Civilization V / Starcraft II real time strategy game for the PC and PS3 where you trade militants and deploy them with assets... There simply aren't enough dedicated PS3 players who will abide within this rabbit hole... I am having to defend Dust 514 to my friends because they hate it.

Controls and Graphics - if these graphics stay after the release, things won't go well, the screen is laggy and the textures are minimal. The controls are clunky and it is seriously hard for a new beginner to stay interested or get good at a game like this.

Hardcores - new players who join are going to be absolutely devastated by the players with 15 million times their SP and money, and 10 times their experience on such a complex shooter. If I were to join right now with no EVE / Dust experience, I would turn back right away... I would get owned by people so badly that I would just pull the plug out.

The fact that it is free - when you buy a game, you feel obliged to play it after buying it, you feel as if you spent your money on it. Making it free gives you a reason just to put it down without consolidating it in the future.


Sorry CCP, but I can't picture Dust 514 competing or succeeding well in 3 years time...

Again, computer based skill system determines damage output, movement speed, and health, you cannot "adapt"

I quite frankly don't think that you understand who you are typing to. I am laughing at the idea of me smoking weed and getting drunk, that is one of those impossible things in this strange universe.

Yeah you are right about EVE being long lasting, and that was very successful of them. But the transition of this 'survivability' isn't going to last on consoles... It just won't. 'Everyone' has a PC, 'everyone' doesn't have a PS3 and those who do will not always want to spend months training for a free game. It feels unfulfilled / improper.

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No one listens to anyone's boring suggestions, they just like to see the complaints.

But the good things in this game have basically been eliminated through the bad things which have arisen.

But 4000 players spread out across the globe isnt enough to really do factional warfare effectively.