I disagree strongly with your point OP. I am confident that DUST will not die out in the coming months, or years, and that it will continue to grow. Not perhaps at a pace that makes it the largest player count game, because it was never about that. Instead DUST will be aiming for the same thing EVE has been, a dedicated slowly growing base of players that are aiming for a unique experience, one DUST is still working to provide in meaningful ways that other shooters will not be. I'm fairly confident that DUST will still be around when these other games are gone, and their sequels are coming along. I may not have been a player last e3, but I did have the ability to browse the forums and I remember much the same thing as last year, doom and gloom threads that Dust wouldn't be around this time next year. And it's still here, and so are these same doom and gloom threads.

Go ahead and declare the demise of DUST all you Kitten well please, I am a patient sort, and can wait to see what comes of it. Just like every other time.

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What precisely is this unique experience? Everything there is to do, you can do in one day. This game is very repetitive, the environments just change slightly.

The only incentive to play this game really is to make your character more developed, so you can do the same thing with different stuff.

Also, getting run over repeatedly stops being unique pretty fast.

Unless the map are dynamic and randomly generated the they are the same every time. Just like DUST, I am not arguing the fact that it may be more fun. My point is that they are the same just like every other fps. The maps are memorized and then the "best" way is to do something is played over and over. Just like DUST. The maps may seem larger or smaller but they are static and offer nothing as far as surprises. Just like DUST. I am frustrated just like everyone else about the lack of maps and with sub par basic mechanics but we shouldn't criticize one game that follows the same trend as every other game in it genre.