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What to do with DUST? One month in already way bigger than EvE

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#1 - 2013-02-05 07:44:17 UTC
1.182 million DUST accounts already...

There has to be a way to make ISK off of them... wouldn't you think? Pirate

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Urgg Boolean
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-02-05 07:47:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Urgg Boolean
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is now FTP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out who later dropped their subs. Now they are down to about 500K accounts and a handful of servers.

So the real question is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.

Oh, and FIRST !!
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-02-05 07:50:00 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is not FtP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out. Now they ar down to about 500K accounts.

So the real questions is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.


I'm sure once they realise that many EVE players are itching for the chance to screw them over that many of those players will rage-quit in favour of something more themeparky.

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Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#4 - 2013-02-05 08:15:19 UTC
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is now FTP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out who later dropped their subs. Now they are down to about 500K accounts and a handful of servers.

So the real question is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.

Oh, and FIRST !!
Sure would be a shame if DUST had to go F2P.

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Frozen Eddie Johnson
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#5 - 2013-02-05 08:33:25 UTC
Crumplecorn wrote:
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is now FTP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out who later dropped their subs. Now they are down to about 500K accounts and a handful of servers.

So the real question is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.

Oh, and FIRST !!
Sure would be a shame if DUST had to go F2P.


I think a more important statistic would be...how many of those people are actually paying for microtransactions, and how many will continue to do so in the next months when the next big console FPS comes out?
Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2013-02-05 08:58:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyprus Black
Tie them into sov mechanics.

If there really are that many Dust mercs and those numbers hold, they're going to need more things to do than fight for FW disputes.

As to the microtransactions, there is gear you can get by purchasing it with ISK but the caveat is that they have high skill requirements. The gear you can get through microtransactions is of equal power but has little to no skill requirements. Then there are other things like SP gain boosters, the ability to use comms for a set amount of time (3, 7 and 30 days), as well as other things of that nature. I'm thinking the SP boosters and comms are the hot ticket items.

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Stetson Eagle
Paird Technology
#7 - 2013-02-05 09:27:02 UTC
No worries, the closed beta vets have been able to drive the bulk of them away by pubstomping in unbeatable gear, accuracy and knowledge.
Provence Tristram
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-02-05 09:33:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Provence Tristram
It looks like such a phenomenally boring game. World of Darkness sounds like it has real potential if they'd ever put any effort into it. In a world populated by dozens of new shooters every year (that haven't been in development for a decade), Dust is a dud.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-02-05 09:37:51 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is not FtP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out. Now they ar down to about 500K accounts.

So the real questions is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.


I'm sure once they realise that many EVE players are itching for the chance to screw them over that many of those players will rage-quit in favour of something more themeparky.


I look forward to seeing what more innovative DUST players concoct by way of screwing over EVE players.

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Nyla Skin
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-02-05 09:57:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Nyla Skin
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts?


Wasn't Dust a free game or am I remembering wrong? PSN is free to play on at least.. So theres very few reasons why they couldn't..

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Revajin
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-02-05 10:01:03 UTC
I'm a little skeptical of Dust, especially after watching more and more footage online. The fittings, the persistent elements, the integration with EVE, it's all cool, but as an fps, the core of its gameplay, it just looks kind of bland. The environments are really uninteresting, the gunplay doesn't seem very good, and it all just seems very floaty. I know this is CCP's first fps but really, there's a mod called Angels Fall First: Planetstorm for UT3 that has class based gameplay, up to 64 players, real time space combat with full modeled ship interiors and seamless boarding action. It's a mod. By a group of guys with no budget. I know CCP has probably spread themselves out with WoD and Dust but it's kind of like Incarna all over again. Maybe it's just the limitations of the PS3 but I expected a lot more from 514.
Nicolo da'Vicenza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2013-02-05 10:41:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Nicolo da'Vicenza
Stetson Eagle wrote:
No worries, the closed beta vets have been able to drive the bulk of them away by pubstomping in unbeatable gear, accuracy and knowledge.

logged into some awesome dust map where you and the enemy spawn randomly around each other in a base with no rhyme or reason shooting each other except with my low SP all I could use was a gun with no sights or scope and it took me 3 seconds to turn around

i mean you're supposed to be some sort of super space soldier but when you start playing you move around like a fat sack of crap with guns that aim worse then modern equivalents. I assume this gets better once you start spending da aurum, but still - dang.
Plexas Aideron
Enlightened Industries
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-02-05 10:49:16 UTC
Just wait until the next call of copy paste comes out.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#14 - 2013-02-05 10:54:37 UTC
Let's wait and see what the retention rate is after the FPS folks hit that "OMG MATH" wall Lol

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#15 - 2013-02-05 10:55:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Lipbite
I bet EVE has at least 8 millions registered accounts (450k active accounts it's ~1/3 of total upgraded accounts it's ~1/6 of total registered accounts).

P.S. After playing and comparing Defiance alpha to Planetside 2 I believe I'm not interesting in MMOFPS without PvE.
Docter Daniel Jackson
Fleetworks Training
#16 - 2013-02-05 10:57:58 UTC
Crumplecorn wrote:
Urgg Boolean wrote:
But can they retain that many accounts? SWTOR is now FTP because they started out with huge numbers of players trying it out who later dropped their subs. Now they are down to about 500K accounts and a handful of servers.

So the real question is whether or not DUST can survive the test of fickle gamers.

Oh, and FIRST !!
Sure would be a shame if DUST had to go F2P.


It already is F2P...
Nyla Skin
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-02-05 11:05:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Nyla Skin
Docter Daniel Jackson wrote:
Crumplecorn wrote:
Sure would be a shame if DUST had to go F2P.


It already is F2P...


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Docter Daniel Jackson
Fleetworks Training
#18 - 2013-02-05 11:14:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Docter Daniel Jackson
Nyla Skin wrote:
Docter Daniel Jackson wrote:
Crumplecorn wrote:
Sure would be a shame if DUST had to go F2P.


It already is F2P...


Sarcasm is such a delicate artform.


You would be shocked how many people don't know lol

Some guy was on dust and asked me how much it will cost when it comes out of beta.
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#19 - 2013-02-05 11:28:22 UTC
That barbie-vampire MMO is DOA.

The seminar about it during last year's FANFEST was about as inspiring as human decomp on a hot summer's day -- just walk away, there's nothing to see.

As for DUST, long may it provide any kind of revenue to CCP so CCP can throw some extra server server hardware to EVE. After the last few big battles, it's needed one frack of a lot more than some MMO for the goth kiddies.Attention

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Kinis Deren
Mosquito Squadron
D0GS OF WAR
#20 - 2013-02-05 13:32:00 UTC
I wonder how many capsuleers will rage quit when they get scammed or asploded by the Dust foot soldiers?Twisted
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