during planetside 2's lowest points (around christmas i believe), it had an active playerbase of about 20k.
and that's a pc fps

this is a FREE TO PLAY console shooter. CONSOLE
and it's active player base is 5k.

that's horrifically tiny

5k players were at a week if end of open beta tell me what AAA shooter has that many at this point while haveing no advertising and no gaming convention showings since 2009. 5k players is the standard a tive on eve at any giving time like it is here that's pretty good giving the diffrence in amount of advertising each game has had and the dependence dust players base is with eve' s . Yes about 80% of dust players play eve how do I know I don't I guess a probally pretty good to as eve has 5-6 thousand players on at any givin time. Take out the alt accounts mining and **** and just count active players ur probally looking at 4-5 thousand players playing eve at any givin time. Dust has 5-6 thousand players playing at any givin time and these two player bases don't add up quite right. Hey guess what u guys must like this game so much you went out and advertised to friends and familly. Hey guess what this hame is in open beta with a quarter of active players as big name titles like cod and bf3. Dare u to wait a month for ccp to let there advertising department loose on dust and u start seeing it plastered on big name web sites, tv channels, and possible coming to a park bench near u.

I remember when MAG was pulling in similar type of numbers summer 2011

Alot of the very people who are trying to defend Dusts low player count were screaming how dead MAG was