EVE General Discussion

Has there ever been a FPS game that has lasted more than 1 year, with any individual iteration?
Yes, there are oodles of FPS franchises that last a decade, but that is over 4 or 5 releases of the game.

The 2 key questions are:
1. how good this Dust will be retaining its players (not very good if you consider the industry track record)
2. how many people will try it in the first place. (there is a huge potential market of FPS players to work with)

Halo 4, one of the most successful franchises every, came out around Christmas, and sold around 4 million copies.
I think the question is how many of those Halo 4 players still pick up their 360's and play it on a very regular basis, 2 months later, 4 months later, 12 months later.

I strongly doubt Dust will have the staying power of Halo as a one-off iteration, or franchise.
I certainly hope Dust does not last, otherwise the predictions of Eve being treated as the red-headed step-child may happen.

I figure once the griefers figure out how to exploit the Dust mechanics to ruin gameplay for others, we will see a radical drop in participation for that game. But perhaps CCP has learned from the results in Eve, and will curtail such antics within Dust.

So, I haven't read much into DUST despite trying it a little in the CB but can you call an Orbital Bombardment on your positions? I mean, if a Dust player is also an EVE player providing support from his nearby computer, can he grief his own team? If so, I predict a lot of rage over that.

glad to hear it - friendly fire disabled is anti-EVE

Actually... yah that's possible. They're introducing friendly fire soon for corp matches and contracts mercenary work. There will be rage but that's going to be an allowed form of griefing... like a saboteur or corp thief is in eve. Will be interesting.

And your type is precisely the type that CCP should ban from Dust.
I am no fan of Dust, as it will take away from Eve if Dust is successful.
But I would hate it more if it were to fail because your type ruins the game.

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.