Numbers are at around 4.5 K

This will **** the PS2 fanboys off but Dust 514 numbers are pretty close to PS2's numbers. Dust 514 is still being born while PS2 is dieing off.

i have the vetrans pack lav and i can assure you that it pretty much sucks once the shield is gone and it dosnt take a lot (few grenades or two good swarms) and your dead and not to mention the fact that you get blaster sniped out of them all the time

Do I really have to mention again that it's summer and numbers always drop during that time?

its summer every game sees a massive a drop as people go holiday, and people in england, start praying to strange yellow thing in the sky, that only shows up for a like a week.

Over 71000 playing BF3 on PS3.

F summer, people just don't like dust.

Of course it has a larger player base, it's a much larger franchise. Also, you're quoting this figure in isolation. Just a month ago BF3 had 10k more players...clearly it's dying, right? LINK

Lastly, due to the way CCP develops games, it's normally not comparable to other games in that you see a massive initial push and then slowly dwindling numbers. Look at EVE for example. When I started out and it hit 10k players for the first time I thought OMFG, WOW! We're now at 40k+ and it's one of few (if not the only) games that show growth year after year. That's because CCP tends to continually improve the game while adding real stuff while other game studios release a polished game and then hardly add anything really new to it. WOW comes to mind...or Anarchy Online.

Go play in traffic fan boy.

You can justify it however you need. Bf has not seen an add on in six months and has 20x the player count.

Triple sp couldn't get above 6k.

Bf has more players because it is a better game. Why can't you just admit that?

Oh right, fan boy.

Go play in traffic fan boy.

You can justify it however you need. Bf has not seen an add on in six months and has 20x the player count.

Triple sp couldn't get above 6k.

Bf has more players because it is a better game. Why can't you just admit that?

Oh right, fan boy.

Its good dust is losing support, CCP is going to have to take a good hard look at how they managed the project and hopefully a few heads will roll at CCP.

This game has been in Dev since 2005 If thats not proof of poor management i dont know what is. You could have paid a capable studio to produce this game and gotten a far superior product.

The engine switching and constant development hell that CCP has put this game through mirrors some of the worst games and failed projects in gaming history. Right up there with duck nukem forever.

We will only end up seeing what went wrong sadly when CCP sacks the whole project.

Just look at CCPs job board http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs

Look at all the critical positions that are available for China. I have been watching that board for quite some time, and there has been some significant turn around. I wish i had taken pics of the other jobs that where posted throughout this year.

The project is practically in free fall IMHO not that CCP would ever admit that.

I'm pretty sure BLAM! has moved on from CCP and that is why we have not heard from him.

It took CCP 8 years to get the game to this point. 8 years of Development on 2 different engines muddling about.
Can you guess based on that where DUST is gonna be in another 8 if it took them this long to get to here?

I'm starting to get worried, we have not peaked 5k in nearly a week and this is an event weekend. With 80mill ps3's why so few players? I remember when we had 10k, and heard fanbois say "when release hits we should have closer to 100k".

What the hell happened? Where are all the fps players at? This is free 2 play right? Are people insulted by the constant Buy this and purchase aurum marketing strategies? Do people feel left behind after CCP chose to NOT reset beta players upon Commercial release? Or is it the actual gameplay and community that is turning new players away?

Someone clue me in, WHERE IS EVERYONE AT!!!

Here are the sad declining numbers.......
Eve Server Numbers

Its good dust is losing support, CCP is going to have to take a good hard look at how they managed the project and hopefully a few heads will roll at CCP.

This game has been in Dev since 2005 If thats not proof of poor management i dont know what is. You could have paid a capable studio to produce this game and gotten a far superior product.

The engine switching and constant development hell that CCP has put this game through mirrors some of the worst games and failed projects in gaming history. Right up there with duck nukem forever.

We will only end up seeing what went wrong sadly when CCP sacks the whole project.

Just look at CCPs job board http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs

Look at all the critical positions that are available for China. I have been watching that board for quite some time, and there has been some significant turn around. I wish i had taken pics of the other jobs that where posted throughout this year.

The project is practically in free fall IMHO not that CCP would ever admit that.

I'm pretty sure BLAM! has moved on from CCP and that is why we have not heard from him.

It took CCP 8 years to get the game to this point. 8 years of Development on 2 different engines muddling about.
Can you guess based on that where DUST is gonna be in another 8 if it took them this long to get to here?

This ^ is why the community is so **** off ...I been around only from the beginning of the open Beta.. about 7-8 months ? and i feel like i have been trolled by CCP to hell and back... god knows how Closed Beta people feels..

The game is very much the same as when i first joined, just a bit worst in every possible way.

Its good dust is losing support, CCP is going to have to take a good hard look at how they managed the project and hopefully a few heads will roll at CCP.

This game has been in Dev since 2005 If thats not proof of poor management i dont know what is. You could have paid a capable studio to produce this game and gotten a far superior product.

The engine switching and constant development hell that CCP has put this game through mirrors some of the worst games and failed projects in gaming history. Right up there with duck nukem forever.

We will only end up seeing what went wrong sadly when CCP sacks the whole project.

Just look at CCPs job board http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs

Look at all the critical positions that are available for China. I have been watching that board for quite some time, and there has been some significant turn around. I wish i had taken pics of the other jobs that where posted throughout this year.

The project is practically in free fall IMHO not that CCP would ever admit that.

I'm pretty sure BLAM! has moved on from CCP and that is why we have not heard from him.

It took CCP 8 years to get the game to this point. 8 years of Development on 2 different engines muddling about.
Can you guess based on that where DUST is gonna be in another 8 if it took them this long to get to here?

Doesn't change the fact that it has double the shield regen of the ISK saga.

It's summertime....totally normal, same things happens with EVE too every single summer.

Here in London people get confused when the sun shines, but at the moment even us rain people have sunshine outside. Only normal to spend more time outside.

okay but if its really going to get destroyed the shield regen dosnt meen ****

Numbers don't matter nearly as much for a F2P like many other games.

They have made, from what I hear, $20M on the game thus far. As long as AUR is bought in sufficient amounts the game will be around. Plus, I doubt if CCP is horribly burdened by DUST financially. They have the long view, just look at the slow change rate for Ganker's Paradise (EVE). DUST is changing at a much faster rate.

New players will download the game, some percentage will buy AUR, many will buy Packs from the PlayStation Store. Those AUR items are good enough to keep many paying for them.

An evening burning down AUR items is cheaper than a night at the bar. And while DUST is often boring, your friends aren't.