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Dust 1/10th of eve?

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gobbybobby
Negative-Impact
#81 - 2013-05-15 09:15:02 UTC
the new game mode they added Domination is hell of alot of fun, PC and the game went live (out of beta) and it clearly drew in the people last night, Peaking at 5,200 1am GMT ish.
Minmatar Citizen160812
The LGBT Last Supper
#82 - 2013-05-15 13:35:39 UTC
Chribba wrote:
and fyi DUST broke it's Uprising PCU - close to breaking 5,000 atm.


I know how to use a calculator and even if you double that number it's still very low for the cost of producing one of those games. Most if not all F2P console shooters get their biggest numbers when they release, it goes up and down for a few months then stays on life support while the diehard fans complain about the imbalances added to sell the newest overpowered cash shop items (which then get "rebalanced" a few weeks after they sell enough of them to reach their sales goal).

Dust should have been part of Incarna and I don't think their grand plan for separating the two games with some loose connections will work until it's released on PC and totally free with a cash shop. $300 for a console that I won't use except for one game plus whatever they are charging for Dust doesn't sound like a F2P shooter to me...
Kor'el Izia
#83 - 2013-05-16 00:23:12 UTC
Remind me to read this thread again on the 21st, when it's been out one week.

The interesting part on the stats is the bottom part with red graphs, shows the influx of new characters.

It's been breaking it's PCU everyday since launch
Radius Prime
Tax Evading Ass.
#84 - 2013-05-16 00:47:14 UTC
gobbybobby wrote:
the new game mode they added Domination is hell of alot of fun, PC and the game went live (out of beta) and it clearly drew in the people last night, Peaking at 5,200 1am GMT ish.


5k players checking out a free to play game. Imagine what revenue that generated. If they all bought 1 item at $1 a pop that should cover CCP's night security guards and electricity bill for a day. Promising..

With the current revenue model this game requires 10s if not 100s of thousands of players just to break even. Hope at least some console kids end up transferring to EVE. That way it wasn't a complete waste and will give me something I'll happily shoot at.

Reopen the EVE gate so we can invade Serenity. Goons can go first.