EVE General Discussion

I agree personally that given all alternatives, that the PC was the proper choice for the game, especially from a business perspective. They have hundreds of thousands of players that are already willing to give them money and play their game. I am attempting to speak for the majority of the dust community in this post though, so I am drawing on a lot of the voices that I have heard. There are other much deeper implications and complaints that have been discussed in this this thread and on the dust boards however.

im one of those your referring to there, i fail to see the issue here.

Dust has no player base. An MMO with peak 5k concurrency is an MMO which is going to be closed. The numbers that dust had would barely cover the costs of the hosting. Just ask David Reid, he presided over the shutting down over another FPS MMO - I know I was also there too, one of the many who lost their jobs.

PLEX4DUST!

Literally. LOL

I haven't played Dust yet, don't own a ps3 and am not willing to buy a console for just 1 game.

I am however extremely excited about Legion, I am definitely going to be playing it and will probably recruit some IRL friends to start a corp.

Sucks for the ps3 owners, but the platform is too old, too constrained, and was holding the game back. I'm sure that Legion will eventually port over to ps4 though, and knowing CCP they won't leave their mercs behind in the dust - I'm sure they will port over the merc toons and sp.

Hehehe that is one of better trolls I have seen. Good job Elayae, good job.

The dust community was holding on to the vision of dust CCP was telling us would come true. The dust keynote was about legion....the keynote.

They are going to do some bug fixes for dust, so as it is now is how it shall remain, which is okay at best most would call it nasty names. No new content, no strengthening of the eve dust link, no pve, no market, no 32 v 32, no vehicle parity, no weapon parity, no shooting eve ships from the ground, no planetary conquest in null sec, they will probably remove features like FW and PC for legion as well as orbital strikes, and worst of all no monument to shoot.
The dust community knows its dead, the dream is what kept people interested. that's why everyone is burning their isk and assets before biomassing, as a sort of mourning. As soon as they announce no character transfer I'll be raising a glass before biomassing my self.

The most work dust will see is some bugs since mid uprising fixed. No new content generated from legion going to dust. The team working on legion is the team working on dust. This explains why there was so little being put out from the shanghai team, they weren't working on dust.....so why didn't they f****** tell us?

If I have to start from scratch (again) after a year of making my character I better get access to the legion closed beta.....oh wait.....well the NEW closed beta before everyone else to see what they have been spending all their time on that was suppose to be spent developing dust.

So a handful of mercs will probably come from dust to legion, and it will be flooded by master race queers and eve pilots. Meh at least we can stomp you into the ground, that's kind of a silver lining.

Since I now have been able to watch the Dust514 Legion Keynote. I take back some of what I said and apologize to Atruin.

While I still think it is over hyped and that Dust will still be around for a few years, it does appear as if everything Dust was suppose to be will be in Legion. Though I don't blame CCP completely since there may have been limitations they were unaware of during development which made most things they promised impossible on PS3. Not to mention the fact that continuing development on Dust for the next few years would seem pointless since it will be a legacy console after next winter.

This however is partially CCPs fault for pushing PS3 with the possible idea of converting to PS4, which may still be possible even with Legion as they could scale down Legion for a PS4 version. Without knowing numbers on Dust, CCP may not see the value in continuing their push in consoles.

In short

Bad move on CCPs part, though not completely unexpected. If you like Dust how it is(with possible fixes) then it isn't dead, if you liked Dust due to possible long term potential/promises then yes it is.

SSSSHHHHH!!!!!

We know noooothink!

From a CPM blog:

It is bad the way this has been handled, but nerdragers hysterically biomassing is frankly hilarious. I hope loads of them do it then start screeching when they realise it was a bit dumb.

I'm not that old! Had to google that, and eww. Hope so!