Looking back it seems the number of blind optimists has decreased in the last month. That's kinda dispiriting, I guess their misguided faith was almost uplifting.

Though since I'm still here I guess that also makes me misguided.

I remember only a month ago the blind optimists were telling me this is no the game for me. !0 years, not a CoD clone, RPG style Sp/level system is what makes an MMO or whatever.

Dust is down 4000 players since then despite good numbers of new players trying it. Looks like it is not the game for lots of people.

The OP's post is looking more and more like divine prescience.

Actually, the OP posts again now simply because in another 6 months he's going to look just as stupid as he did with the original post. There's a lot of work to be done on Dust, but it will be done.

The release was a bust because marketing trumped development.

Releasing on 5/14 *harharhar see what we did there* won out over making sure the game was at a stage where it wouldn't get mocked for basic game play and performance issues.

Actually, the OP posts again now simply because in another 6 months he's going to look just as stupid as he did with the original post. There's a lot of work to be done on Dust, but it will be done.

Sure loves to hear himself talk.

See the monocle scandal. You know nothing (Jon Snow).

Outside of mega hit RETAIL games. This game is FREE, and not even 1% of PS3 users want to play it.

Oh please, regale us with tales of your foresight and wisdom... we can't get enough!

Chinese developers
Okay, this one can be a bit fishy and questionable, some might call it racist. I don't know for how long their Chinese team have been around. My experience is that generally Chinese programmers are good at crunching out the bulk, but they lack the feeling and ability to make high quality products all the way out like we are used to.

Whilst most of what you've said in the rest of your post is tenuous and debateable, I only want to focus on this part, which makes everything else you've said highly dubious. Do you know that the china office is full only of chinese devs? Well, it's not. CCP have devs from all over the world in all their offices.

Also, some might call your comment racist - that's because it is.

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

You obviously have not played any other games besides mega-hits and dust.

It's funny to read this whole thread - there are a lot of good points on both sides of the debate but almost no one has mentioned the first point and title of the thread: the skill gap is certainly not the reason this game is not doing better than it is. That's just nonsense.

He makes a good point... Everyone wants to put their 2 cents in which caused us to move off the topic at hand in this thread

Pretty sure 9k population is at the level of "We are about to go out of business"

If everyone bought the elite pack @ $100 = $900,000. The team working on dust is at least 40 people large with varying pay grades, though maybe the chinese employed work for significantly less (just sayin). That gives an mean salary of 22,500 per employee. Some make more and some make less - the game is a losing battle at this point unless they do something drastic.

Edit: forgot about overhead like the 8 chefs CCP has or material costs for computer software, renting the Unreal Engine, having an office building, elecricity, water, etc. By some rough estimations, this game is hemoraging money and sucking the life out of CCPs EVE wallet.

How long will this game stay afloat? The money we are sinking into it now has the risk of never paying off because the game is about to shutoff in 1 year.

Congrats you are a profit