EVE General Discussion

Do you really think Sony will make a PS4 that turns all it's multi-player online games obeselete?



I actually own Tabula Rasa.
Yea, that puppy needed to be taken out back of the barn with old yellar.

DUST will have a very small audience compared to COD, BF, KZ, and Halo. I feel that 99% of the people that will be playing DUST are going to be EVE players, and that is only if it is a) a good FPS to begin with, and b) actually worth playing in support of EVE.

MMOFPS doesn't mean anything since there is already PEC in standalone FPS like CoD, BF and just about every other new FPS where you have to gain EXP to unlock new items and weapons. If the game is clunky and unbalanced it will just further push people away which after watching game play video at this point it seems like it is.

To say that DUST is not competing with games like CoD and BF is just ignorance. But keep telling yourself that DUST is going to be some special little snowflake that doesn't need those millions of players to like it then see me again with the servers of DUST are sitting empty because CoD released it's newest iteration.

They don't play the Sims because an updated version of the game came out.

Look at MW1, 2 and 3 they are all really similar.

Good to know, confirms it's a cell cpu then I guess.

I lolled

You failed economy 101 didn't you?

…but that wasn't quite what you said, now was it?

Do you think your typical pimple faced stock boy at Best Buy is not going to look at the box, see a bunch of futuristic battle suits shooting stuff, look at the invoice that reduces it simply as "Shooter" and not place it next to other games? Especially if CCP does NOT pony up an exclusive item within the box?

Then please enlighten me as to which genre DUST is going to be placed in if not FPS. Borderlands is a storyline driven single player/CO-OP RPG that uses the first person setting. DUST is a red vs. blue online FPS. To say that DUST is not competing with Borderlands is correct. DUST is in direct competition with CoD, BF and KZ though.

Also if EVE had half of the subscribers that WoW has I would agree with your point but obviously WoW is the winner on this front.

I wonder if there is any top-down pressure from big alliance leadership on their members to get PS3s in anticipation that Dust will drastically change the Sov mechanic.

And if not, could this potentially cause mass rage-quits when the existing power blocs don't adapt to incorporate the Dust mercs?

Well, none of that really matters to me, I bought my PS3 a month back, signed up for Dust Beta and check my email several times a day for news of the closed Beta launch. I, for one, have been pumped for Dust for years.

Was I disappointed when they first said it was console only? Yes.
Was I even more disappointed when they said it was PS3 exclusive? Yes, but I understand the reasoning they've given, with Xbox's little closed off universe choking the EvE-Dust link possibility.
Am I scared of what the MT model will be? **** yes, but I think that after Incarna and the cluster-**** that NeX was, I can't see them screwing that up again. But who knows, history sometimes repeats itself.

I think this game's biggest competitor is Planetside, as I don't give 2 damns about CoD and won't get BF3 (BECAUSE OF ORIGIN!), and I LOVED PS 1. The best hope is to make it so the Dust players CARE about the EvE universe they are affecting. PS2 will have its continent-sprawling wars with thousands of participants (most likely with several serves, not one universe, not one war), but it'll all just be rotating ownership that doesn't matter to the player over a long term. In Dust, their actions will affect a larger game with "REAL" consequences, and that could really hook a lot of the players that try it when they fully understand what they are a part of.

This. Truly.

I too am disappointed there is no immediate plans for a PC version of Dust, else CCP would have another subscriber/supporter.

And I highly doubt 0.0 spaceboat alliances will rage quit over Dust... it doesnt effect their spaceboat sovereignty, towers or techmoons as of yet in any way, shape or form.

If CCP were to tie moongoo into PI and expand PI into something that would dwarf techmoons, then we will see things heat up when Dust is released.

But if CCP does that and the powerblocks have tantrums, again, i hope testies and goons are first in line to rage quit.

Remember hobos, you can contract me your stuff for a nominal fee.