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Dust, PS4 And Its Chances At Ever Arriving
So like many other i tried dust 514 on my old PS3, i was really disappointed in the game, i'm a big eve fan especially of the lore, but the fact they decided to release this on a PS3 instead of wait a few months and bring it to the next gen PS4? what were they thinking?
First they have had to lower the gfx to such a point they are unbearable for me, from the lack of AA, to the lack of textures and quality, not only this but the size of the maps, amount of players, content are all low because of this bad decision. Also the PS3 controller i found insanely hard to aim with and the mouse and keyboard support was terrible.
I have just bought and received my PS4 from amazon a few days ago (super lucky i know) and was soo hoping for it to come ASAP to PS4, but then i read the devs state they will not look at this till the PS3 has 80... 80 million players? last time i checked wiki the PS3 had only sold 80 million units? are they aiming for a 100% ps3 player count but even though half of the people prob dont play anymore or have bought a ps4 or xbox one...
So basically they want 80 million people even though every day less people are playing the PS3 and moving to next gen or PC, they off their heads?
But again i will stress how much they have held this game back for the next 10 years because of PS3, sure the PS4 may eventually come out and have better gfx but the content will still have to abide by the laws of the PS3 because the PS3 must be able to run it, 256mb ram vs 8 gig... for a start this aint good, so for the next 10 years the PS4 is now held back from the PS3, great choice there CCP... what have you done.
This game could have been so much more, imagine planetside 2 size or huge worlds that are fought for over days or weeks not simple matches, it could have been open world across multiple systems and planets, and as a primary pc gamer i always wanted this game on PC, but their neglect to their fanbase just shows what CCP really think, i dont care about them wanting a different fan/playerbase you just don't walk into a nightclub and try to convert everyone into hardcore WoW raiders, while starving your true fans of a game they want.
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"hoping for it to come ASAP to PS4, but then i read the devs state they will not look at this till the PS3 has 80... 80 million players?"
"So basically they want 80 million people even though every day less people are playing the PS3 and moving to next gen or PC, they off their heads?"
Can you link where you read that?
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Any game released in a console is wasting potential for a better game.
If people wanna play the best games not held back by consoles..just play pc games that are exclusive for pc ..not ports made from consoles.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/10/01/ccp-still-sees-massive-opportunity-on-ps3-for-dust-514/
CCP is apparently content to keep DUST 514 on the PlayStation 3 for the time being, even though there's no exclusivity deal preventing it from appearing on other platforms. CEO Hilmar Petursson recently told Eurogamer that "there isn't anything preventing us from doing anything like that other than focus and prioritization."
"It's easy to go and look at all the new shiny things that are coming but we don't want to be doing that. We want to stick to our guns," Petursson said. "There are 80 million PlayStation 3s and we have a free-to-play game; I think there is a massive opportunity in continuing to work on that throughout next year." If that sounds like CCP isn't quite sure whether or not it will bring DUST to the upcoming PlayStation 4, well, yes. "We just haven't decided," Petursson said. "It's just as simple as that. It can, technically, be [on the PS4]. There's nothing preventing it, it's just not what we're focusing on."
In the future I will try and post all my sources- sorry about that
However, Reid added that while CCP has nothing to announce in terms of PS4 support, the Dust 514 community can expect to be playing the game far into the future.
I heard they charge $100 for a respec in game? is this really true? multiple people say it is? if so thats just bad, especially when they make and break builds constantly making half of the SP useless.
Lets face it CCP have messed up so much in the past and currently and in the future, no matter how many times they apologize and say sorry and promise to do better, they always mess up as eve online has showed us, i give it a year or two before they are on their knees begging and saying sorry for what a pillock they have been with Dust 514 with no next gen support or PC
P.S. The screenshots of dust on their website, FALSE, yeah like the game is that good looking, i like how they added AA and AF and sharped textures to the screenshots...
I don't know... there has been an awful lot of really bad PC only games over the years lol.
And this is why dust will fail, they are not even future proofing the game, the game is already boring and old, and with such games as BF4 and planetside 2 which is much much bigger and better and open world, the only people who care about the link to dust and eve are the pc players of eve, not the random console player, this is why dust will not last.
The hardware of the PS4 would have ensured that 10 year future plan for dust, but they want another 10 years out of PS3? that's insane, mental... that's like us still playing a PS2 in 3 more years!!!
At least the game would have a dedicated fan base on PC, i know many eve players who dont have or want a ps3 but would like to play dust, but if they get anything it will be a future gen console not ex gen.
CCP are making yet another chronic mistake, i mean how bad are things if they really charge £100 for a SP respec? and have a borderline P2W model.
There have also been a lot of amazing Console exclusives like last of us and beyond two souls, or halo and gears of war. ive played so many shit pc indy games, and indy games are flooding the market now with steam especially, i hate these cheap old school tacky games, not to mention most pc games run piss poor and have little optimization.
I really enjoy killzone, knack and black flag on my PS4, can't wait till order 1886 comes out, that game looks freaking awesome.
This is really just typical CCP. Noone can really tell them what to do but themselves, they've shown that time and time again with how EVE Online has been designed and implemented. My roommate got a PS4 the same day it came out(his birthday happened to fall on the same exact day), and I watched him play CoD Ghosts for about a week. I then went and played DUST again for the first time in awhile on my PS3, and the graphics for that game are truly abysmal. It's really, really bad. I can't imagine what universe this company lives in other than their own strange sense of doing things. I mean, this sort of thing is bad enough, but they're also laying off people from World of Darkness, which is honestly the only thing they were doing that interested me in the slightest. I generally dislike Blizzard, especially over the last few years, but even Blizzard is doing a better job than CCP these days.
It's really sad.
WTF?
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Dust 514 was badly designed. I will talk more about this in my own thread later perhaps.
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I must confess that if DUST 514 were on PS4, I would be playing DUST 514. That's because there is so little out right now on PS4, I'm willing to give new things a try, even games on the margins that I wouldn't think of playing otherwise. Heck. I have Contrast, Knack and Injustice: Gods Among Us on there, only because there's not much else out right now. Plus, I've got gobs of hard drive space to install.
I do have PS3. I'd have no problem playing it on my PS3, but the hard drive space is at a premium on it, and I don't have the space for it. If I am to play DUST 514 on my PS3, it would mean I'd have to uninstall the three games on there right now that I play regularly in order to play it, which is just too much of a tradeoff.
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I said this.
And Was bashed for it.
My suggestion, was to make the PS3 modes stay cross gen modes for both the PS3 and PS4 version so they can play together.
But on the PS4 version, they have extra modes with larger map and larger player cap, like a 100 vs 100 mode with captured keeps and objectives. But this is exclusive content to the PS4 version and not the PS3 version, so these modes dont get held back by PS3's limited hardware.
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Doubt CCP is not able to do something terrible and stupid over and over again.
Maybe a little understanding is needed.
First. EVE online is the worst sandbox I've faced on my whole life; I liked it for some long time but was boring, people was a chunk of freaks and the progression ensured never to catch the old ones. Graphics sub par. Music not even with the slightlest trace of good taste. Handbook for Dummies. Spreadsheet feeling. When skills done it was only a zergfest. Best of it all: some parts of the community that really love the game and work harder than CCP itself. (At least in that Korean garbage named as Lineage2 the zergfests were even funny and motivated by some intra-role if you were into it, but EVE, bah. C'mon.
Second. Dust514 released for a dying platform, as Sony by the time it was developed was sending to the companies the new rules to design properly for the, then, upcoming PS4. MMMmm. Were they missing something? It was obvious that with some planning and pushing out Dust514 for the brand new PS4 would have rocketed the fame of the game to the stars. But no, they were stubborn enough to ignore that simple rule of marketing: Plus + Plus = Success.
Third. The snobbish deal with the, perhaps, the third most important IP in general gaming, World Of Darkness. This was another hand full aces poker all in one. The perfect match if you like football. Your competitors have tried everything, from Conan the Barbarian to the fake version of Warhammer that is nowadays the most important MMORPG in the world, that is... You all know what is this one. Even a company with talent and capable of doing things well gets the real Warhammer IP and surrender'd by a fake competitor it falls down to the rocks at the bottom of the pallisade. Yes, Bioware Mythic did a good job, but the big brother was too strong and too similar. And then, oh, wait, an icelandic company buys the entire White Wolf Studio, the creators of some of the more important and meaningful gaming IP's in roleplaying History and then, after failing technically they throw everything and everyone to the nearest trashcan so that White Wolf must re-do a crowdfunding campaing to make an special edition of their own table-top games Books. What?! Yes, it has worked like that. It's happening right now and in an incredible style of "let copy the cash shop Korean garbage to stab our admirers in the back and raise at least funds to survive". Wait. Is this real? Yes. A corporate White Wolf RP contacted me some hours ago to ask me if I would like to be a patron in their patronage programm for dedicated World of Darkness players - in table-top games- via Facebook. - some years ago I had one of the first web pages dedicated to the study of the game- i did it on a simple HTML work in Microsoft Notepad- but I don't know why the page became slightly important among the fans in that early times when only UO pre- trammel and AC and SRPG Dungeon Siege were at the top of gaming in a spreading internet. I don't know how but White Wolf has been keen enough to at least remember that, but, the big company that CCP is, has let them down as killed mockingbirds. Wait? Yes. That's real. World of Darkness is selling books, single books on about $450 each unit for the 20th anniversary. But, Alas, no MMORPG has been done with that incredible, massive, rolling, amazing IP. Nothing. Zero. Null.
So that, even if they kick a new Dust514 port for PC I will let it get its own dust in the market shelves. And for the sake of Khorne, or whoever is on control up there, I would love to play Dust514 the way it could have been with a little entrepreneaur wits from their part. But the thing is over and ruined. Not my fault. I have spent money in EVE online for me and my friends. I have bought plex, I have worked out role playing character sheet and stories for my nearest playing mates to get them involved into it, but they left me alone and the big EVE left me rot in boredom.
That's is the way of the brave Icelandic CCP. And how have they worked things out. So it is. A sad story or a schizophrenic delirium maybe.... but from the sane minds of a what once was an admirable company.
It is a question of fangs.
CCP are now developing Legion and Valkyrie to add to the Eve universe. Legion will be a PC FPS with a bit more 'scope' than that of the original Dust 514, i don't know whether Dust will be phased out once Legion releases, or if it will be allowed to run alongside, but given how few actually play Dust, my guess is that they will allow it to quietly disappear.
It is highly likely that Valkyrie will be on both PC and PS4, and given its use of upcoming VR technology, it will probably prove to be very popular among those who enjoy playing aircraft combat type games, and as the fighters themselves are apparently highly modable.
I dont think that will come a PS-4 Version and if so I would not buy one only because of DUST 514. I played a lot when they launched it 2 years ago, every day for many hours. Because of my age I was not able to become a bunny, hopping over the battlefield the whole day, so I had to play as a sniper and i have beend bashed for that many times.
Today I am playing from time to time one ore two matches and then I pause for weeks or even months. No more fun to be a sniper.
Bit of a Necro post here, not sure anyone is even looking at Dust as being a game anymore, it failed and pretty much disappeared.