Dust 514

I don't know how much you guys have heard about this but it is from the makers of EVE online. I was a huge fan of EVE online and had a blast running around in my tackler Crow, just stop playing because of lack of people to play with. But this game is to be integrated with EVE Online, the EVE Online players will hire the ground troops to fight for them and which ever team wins gets the planet for that EVE Online corp. This is bring a whole new level to economy, leveling, and ranking systems to the Gamin industry. I wanted to see your thoughts and here are the two trailers that are currently out.

Announcement Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkuZLxAWBo

Latest Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRyXDlZKwgA

 

There are many of us waiting for this game. I've played both EVE and Planetside, and this game is taking Planetside and merging it with the EVE world. There's no other game I'm more excited for than Dust 514.

There's a good chance Dust is console only though. (won't stop me from playing)

 

It was announced that it would be only available on the xbox 360. I would love to play this game because I have played Eve for a long time and just love it. But i dont have a console and I wont be buying one just to play. I dont think they will put it on the 360 maybe the next gen because the 360 is on the end of its life cycle. I would hope they release it both on console and PC.

 

i hate to say it, but its going to fail. shooters are fairly common, people play them, achieve a certain level of skill, accomplishment, or play untill they get bored of it, then move on to the newest shiney object. the game will loose 90%+ of its population once the 'next gen' shooter comes out, no manner when its released, and its life cycle is ultimately limited by the life cycle of a console. why they decided not to put the game on the PC with its (in theory) infinite playable lifespan is beyond me.

 

Its success or failure is a non-issue to those of us who love MMOFPS. People are still playing Planetside 8 years after release (including myself). Planetside had no marketing and came out at a time when the concept of MMOs was new and far from mainstream. So, I'm pretty sure we'll play Dust for just as long if not more.

It's not on PC because they don't want to lose EVE subscribers to Dust, among many other reasons... though I would play it on PC if the option was there.

Its life cycle is hardly limited by the life cycle of the console... provide an example where a popular online game tanked as soon as the next iteration of the console appeared. People still played Halo 2 on the original Xbox when the Xbox 360 hit the market. Others played it on 360, with it's backwards compatibility. No one stopped playing Halo 2 because the original Xbox died.

 

Ya but I would only resubscribe to eve if I can play dust... it would make eve more fun. Didn't they take Halo 2 servers down? Not immediately of course, but I thought they went down early 2010 or something like that.

 

also, im not really sure how 'accurate' that trailer is in terms of what you will beable to do.... i mean, if they really plan to allow EVE players to wipe out a entire map of DUST players in passing, for kicks, then i dont think dust will last very long... as fun as that will be on the Eve side XD

as for your challenge, Halo 2 only held its mastery for two years before it began to decline, and by four years was only a tiny fraction of its playerbase, and now, less than ten years later, its dead. in comparison, there are many PC shooters who are still quite strong a decade after their inception, that its a superior medium is undeniable.

 

They did mention that you could order an orbital strike (I recall). It would cost lots of ISK im sure.

 

Halo 2 started to decline not because the original Xbox died, but because another Halo title replaced it, and it wasn't cost-effective to keep the servers up for a small community of players. Until Halo 3 replaced it, it had 2 million players (not on at the same time of course). Hell, everyone that had an Xbox had Halo 2, and everyone that had Xbox live played it online. It was the only reason to have an Xbox live account back then.

 

It's now A PS3 exclusive as per Sony E3 2011.

 

still a bad idea to put it on a console says i

 

Title sounds like an AIM screen name.

 

Im really angry about the PS3 exclusive side of Dust. I really wanted to play this game.

 

Lots of PS3 exclusives coming out for future games, wonder if Sony is trying to make up for something. ; )

 

ISK is a meaningless burden. I had over half a trillion when I quit. If I ever choose to log in I would still be hard pressed to spend it.

This game release is very poorly planned. It's going to release amid Halo 4, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty MW 3 on the lowest selling console on the market when the primary playerbase for the franchise is on PC.

 

Because we all know people buy a PS3 to play FPS games. Why on earth an MMO would be exclusive to one platform is beyond me.

 

ha. i bet i could blow that in a hour or less

 

Maybe if youre just buying stupid shit to buy it. A supercap costs between 80-150b with a full officer fit. The most expensive non supercap ship runs you around 20b. You would have to simply buy stacks of meaningless things for no reason at all to spend it. I don't count that as a legit way to spend money.

You could buy every ship in the game for around 180b. That includes all rare/unique/hard to produce without fits.