there will be no influx at launch. people who will join have already joined... and ccp said they arnt gonna be vocal about the launch.

Can't afford any more hype.

Is DUST dead or dying?

Well you kinda need to advertise the game for it to grow, 5000 players for a game that is rarely spoken of isn't all that bad. If CCP invested a bit of money on advertising this game would grow.

Offtopic: If they really wanna make a lot of money they should sell a respec. :)

5000 isn't bad for a committed group of Dust players but for business it is bad. They need to grow and being quiet about release sounds like terrible business logic to me.

That's 5000 player's on at any given time that's a very health number as it's all day. There seems to because huge misunderstanding on what a health game looks like proabaly caused by the like of bf3 and cod and halo which are market exceptions. The gamer communty seems very poorly informed of their own hobby a game is only dead once u core gameplay breaks due to lack of players. This has not happend nor is dust heading that way given it ran happly with just a few 100 a few months back

That's 5000 player's on at any given time that's a very health number as it's all day. There seems to because huge misunderstanding on what a health game looks like proabaly caused by the like of bf3 and cod and halo which are market exceptions. The gamer communty seems very poorly informed of their own hobby a game is only dead once u core gameplay breaks due to lack of players. This has not happend nor is dust heading that way given it ran happly with just a few 100 a few months back

That's 5000 player's on at any given time that's a very health number as it's all day. There seems to because huge misunderstanding on what a health game looks like proabaly caused by the like of bf3 and cod and halo which are market exceptions. The gamer communty seems very poorly informed of their own hobby a game is only dead once u core gameplay breaks due to lack of players. This has not happend nor is dust heading that way given it ran happly with just a few 100 a few months back

Fair point. But for example TF2 is free to play and has over 100,000 playing a day. Dust over the past week has peaked at 4900 odd. usaully has about 3500 average.

I believe the game will grow over time as an MMO usually does.

Dust 514 doesn't need to have numbers similar to BF3 or COD just rise the number slightly

TF2 is also on different platforms that are established with F2P games.

The active player population is almost double what it was 2 months ago when I was checking server population, where it averaged about 1500. So the game is growing.

Also, people who are down on Uprising, it's got its issues yes, but frankly I'm having more fun with it, and that's what is supposed to happen when playing a game.

Game is dead when you try to join a match and you have to wait 5 minutes before actually entering a lobby. Although there are a decent amount of people leaving the game because of SP mistakes. Specially old school tank drivers.

I have never had this issue ever and frankly any delay is the matchmaker at work. Halo and cod take just as long to get a match going. Who has quit game I hear this a lot and frankly I think its about as reliable as people saying their going to boycott the next cod game

Well you kinda need to advertise the game for it to grow, 5000 players for a game that is rarely spoken of isn't all that bad. If CCP invested a bit of money on advertising this game would grow. Honestly the way match ups work its really hard to notice that there is only 5000 people playing at all times compared to other games like COD that the match ups go null and fail, or sometimes it takes 2 minutes to play a match that most people do not enjoy or just do not play, like the party games in Black Ops; this game is very fast at getting you into the battlefield.

Offtopic: If they really wanna make a lot of money they should sell a respec. :)

Not dead nor dying, expect the game to grow further with more updates, as EvE has. 5k is a very healthy number, other games have lived perfectly happy off populations of roughly 500 in their latter years, with basically no technical support behind it.

Can see this game very happily coming into its own over the next couple of years, with a name for itself rather than just "the FPS connected to EVE".