Out of Pod Experience

Well, as an Eve player who also has a PS3, I'm definitely picking this up. I do think that not launching this on PC day 1 with the PS3 version is an incredibly huge mistake, but for all anyone knows, it could still be a success despite all the doubt surrounding it.

As long as it's a great game then console exclusivity won't matter one bit. Even if it's just 'okay,' that still might end up not being so bad. Look at MAG. PS3 exclusive and undoubtedly nothing mind-blowing, but still has a loyal fanbase of a couple couple thousand logged on at any moment last time I heard. Same with Socom, Killzone, Resistance, and even Uncharted.

Now I'm not saying that this game won't be a disappointment, but saying this game will fail is the same as saying it will be the greatest game of all time. You could come up with a list or reasons for each, but neither option is more valid than the other. In both cases, you're building weak evidence for something that is literally impossible to prove.

Therefore, rather than rage and expect this game to be bad, I choose to be optimistic. Sue me.

A goon complaining about console kiddies in Eve is like an attention deficit hyperactivity disordered kid with a megaphone amplified drumset complaining about the neighbour snoring, or some ****.

In any case, the lack of self perspective in that post... blows my mind.

I don't understand why people think Dust has to compete with top titles in the genre in order to be successful.

Eve doesn't compete with WoW. Most would agree that Eve shouldn't try to poach WoW players...due to various unscientific evaluations of their intellect.

CCP has a history of NOT going along with the mainstream....of courting a different kind of player. A lot of players and most non-players of Eve would agree that capsuleers are on an extreme end of the MMO population. We like it that way. We like to be able to gloat to other MMO players that we're smart enough to understand Eve and tough enough to survive in it's harsh environs.

CCP, IMO is going to market Dust to a similar niche in the console market. "Console-kiddies" are not that market. CCP believes that there are console gamers out there looking for a new experience, a persistent world that is like no other game. It's not for the eleventy-billion Team Fortress/Battleground/Halo players.

Dust will be successful as a niche FPSMMO much the same as Eve has been successful as a niche MMO.

QFT

KB

I thought one of the reasons they weren't making Dust for PC right away was that aimbots are easy to make for PC. Can they make the same types of things on PS3, I don't know. Maybe someone can correct me on this.

Also I heard a rumour that mouse and keyboard players beat console players. Better to have a fair playing field?

I'm also one of those people who think that after awhile they'll release a PC version.

Yes but I'd be willing to say that half of that 60% is very enthusiastic but doesn't even know EVE exists

(I lol'd at that guy that was trying to claim Sony built it form the ground up cause ti was on PS3 or something)

the only games where a PC matters anymore is MMO's and RTS's
Dust is a shooter, thus console is superior.
the problem is, shooters don't do well on PS3, look at killzone 3, about 3 million in sales... terrible for the hype of killzone.
then look at gears 3, 3million sales in the first week.. will climb around Christmas as well..

i know just about every PC fanboy will rage at what i said, but its unfortunate fact, PC gaming has died off since the PS2/xbox. less and less companies every care about PC shooters or RPG's and some don't even port their games to it anymore. remove MMO's and RTS's and think of 3 companies that make exclusive PC games anymore.

+1

PS. Also I had my first ship loss in Eve from Cpt Fina's Crow in Egghelende

I think for Dust to be interesting to different types of gamers would entail it having some sort of single player experience, at least something you can do on your own. It would be amazing if we could get an actual single player storyline, even if it's only 5-6 hours long. Even something along the lines of missions we do in Eve would be interesting.

I think that if its goal is to reach the spastic, ADHD suffering, Red Bull-chugging idiot FPS gamers then it's going to flop because as soon as the next big thing comes out for PS3 or Xbox 360, they'll forget all about it. All it will take is another Modern Warfare or Halo or Battlefield to come along and people will forget all about DUST. They need to do something really, really special with it to make people WANT to continue playing even after the release of other competitors' titles, because if it's just gonna be another one of those achievement or upgrade farming FPS games, it's gonna die off relatively quickly.

Multiplayer of course is the key to its gameplay, but I still feel that CCP needs to have something else besides MAG in space with mindless fragging, even if said fragging is based around team objectives.

I got a Wii two years ago as a gift ... never hooked it up. I am not much of a Wii, PS3, XBOX player.

However, I do need to buy a blu-ray. I think I will buy a PS3 because of DUST and it's universal acceptance for blu-ray formats and ability to have it's blu-ray upgraded. I'll even join one of my character's corporations!

I think it will be successful.

or eve.