There's only a handful of people playing the game right now, and we're on 2 maps, instead of 1400-4000 that can be expected on release. There will be PLENTY of places for the carebears to gather once the game goes live. Skill progression will also be much slower once the full game is released. Once this game goes live, instead of a few hundred players, we can easily expect a few million, or at the absolute bare minimum, hundreds of thousands.

Also, the quality of this beta is almost excellent, and I have faith that it will basically be excellent come the 29th (here's hoping).
This is a true beta, not a marketing one. You're here to test, not to be sold.

-Lol @ OP welcome to ur first real beta, after u experience how a game made. You can laugh at these console developers that give u a so called beta 2 weeks before realease. Lol-


This.

It makes me laugh when devs do that, assuming that every console owner is an moron. When it's so close to release what they've really given us is a demo. I wouldn't be surprised if these beta's were just early builds shown at the previous years E3 or something.

To be honest I'm not really enjoying Dust so far, but I'm very excited and I feel privilaged to be involved in a true beta.

Lol for the first time in my life im glad to be an old gamer. If you have any concerns about Dust please go play EVE or speak with Eve players. Better yet I will give You a homework assignment go research CCP and the CEO. So you can see for ur self why good at what they do. If you think the Eve community would allow CCP to provide an expansion to Eve thats garbage you have a lot to learn about the relationship between CCP and its fan base.

Lol idk what this guy is taking about "newbies won't have a chance of killing pub stars" that's not true since this is a team based game , I think your statement there makes me think you play cod a lot where one person who has skill can go around and kill everyone this isn't that type of game and if you can't handle it go back to cod or stay and learn teamwork , also I have assault type 1 or 2 , but I put in militia gear with the mailita mods and weapons and still could kill people with better gear wether it's from help from a partner or by myself, and dude your complaining about quality of this game? This is a very old build and another reason this is just closed beta homie , this game will be perfect at release

This game will take off. Some f2p games, and these are the bottom barrel pay to win f2p's, average well over 20k people. The best of the best f2p's are averaging way more than 20k, and this is years after they've been released. For anyone to post saying that this game will not take off, is purely a naive individual. There is a gigantic market for this game, and all the money deals are either for boosters, or cosmetic items. They aren't selling any sort of I-win items here, just cosmetics and boosters.

This game will easily average, just in my rudimentary estimation and opinion, 50k easy. It will more than likely be well over or under that number. A key thing to remember here, is that there are 10's of millions of people that use the PS3 and PSN alone, couple that together with FPS gamers, casuals and hardcore, altogether with the fact that you get the game for free and can play the entire thing for free, is mind blowing. You get all content free of charge, and that assumes expansions. Knowing how CCP does expansions for Eve, which is free content, I'd expect nothing less from them with this game. Now tell me, you seriously think with all of that put into the same equation equals hardly a following? You are out of your mind if you believe this will have a small following.

Quick news flash, it's still 2013.

Tell me, was it said that it would come out this build? If I remember CCP's expansion plan right we should still have another 1 or 2 major expansions this year.

First of all, the game will include a PvE co-op GÇ£Survival modeGÇ¥ in 2012 (Laurino actually didnGÇÖt specify if the feature will be implemented at launch or not. He just said GÇ£in 2012GǦ). It will be basically Dust 514GǦs Horde Mode and will prompt players to defend outposts from the Rogue Drones that are already established as some of the most prominent PvE enemies in EVE Online. You can see them in a concept design above.

Dust 514 will also support competitive gaming and e-sports with an expansion in 2013.

outside of the mega hits 9k is pretty large number for multiplayer.