You would think the people on a video game's forum would be the most bias, which they usually are. That just shows how unique and dissapointing this game is. People want this game to be a good game. Everyone that talks about how bad it is right now aren't undercover media blitz agents from Planetside 2 - they're regular people who thought a super customizable FPS with space suits would be awesome.

The game has so much promise, but it's hemmorhaging players and the devs aren't communicating well enough. Most players that hate the game won't even say anything. It was free, and they aren't going to look up the official forums and login just to talk about it. They just won't play it anymore. Which really says something about the amount of players who post on the forums and dislike the game.

Once a game loses players, they rarely ever get them back. It's like movies or music or anything else that ever gets released: You'll see the most action the first week of release, then it just dies slowly after that. I think this is even more true with F2P games because it's not like anyone had to wait for their birthday, save up allowance, or get a ride to the store from their mom or whatever to play this game. Dust however is absolutley spilling players like a gutted pig.

This game... is dieing. This game is dieing very fast. It will never see 8k+ players online again. The most important thing is to save the players it does have, but many of the players it does have are too good by now and will drive away new players since the RPG element is too strong in this game, and time invested is more rewarded than natural gun game.

CCP - What are you going to do about Dust 514?