In a conversation with IGN, developer CCP addresses concerns that its PS3 game, Dust 514, may have missed its opportune window to launch.
Ninth episode, and we talk Planet Nomads kickstarter, slow CPUs, EVE Valkyrie event, and I have finally received my Bragi Dash!
News:
* Bragi is finally shipping The Dash wireless headphones
* EVE:Valkyrie players holding an in-game event February 20th, with live-streams
* Apple has the highest quarterly revenue of any company ever
* Intel says future CPUs will be slower, but more efficient
Farewells to DUST514:
A small goodbye to DUST514, from current and past players and bitter-vets
Special Guest:
This week’s guest is Daniel Maslovsky from the game-studio Craneballs, here to discuss their kickstarter game Planet Nomads! It is an interesting Sci-fi Survival Sandbox games, and several Bammsters are already backers on Kickstarter!
From GameWatcher: "DUST 514 was first announced back in 2009 for the PlayStation 3 as a first person shooter played in conjunction with the massively multiplayer space sim EVE Online, and its final build was launched in 2013. CCP has announced that DUST 514 will be shuttered on May 30th 2016, with a new FPS being developed to replace it."
wow. that's messed up. I don't play the game, but shutting it down and then a month after that showing your replacement game after you told the community screw you. LOL. Remind me to never support or play a CCP game. There are games that came out many years before this one and the devs keep the servers up for people.
It's on an old console and was nearly dead in the water when it launched. Not much of a community left to anger. Quite frankly, it sucked, and I'm excited to see what the next one will bring.
From launch to death Dust was only really ever a poor mans M.A.G. God I miss M.A.G and Valor.
Dust 514 was free so I don't see your point, but I do find your name ironic.
@Tony - Yeah I still wish for MAG2, or even a PS4 remaster of MAG.
I remember them saying it was supposed to contribute to eve and everyone was up in arms and that never happened and it just fell to the way side
I'm not sure enough people ever played DUST 514 to say "everyone was up in arms", but there were in fact cross play battles between EVE and DUST.
It was a cool concept with some sizable flaws, but I'd be interested in a sequel that addressed some of those flaws. I thought I heard there was a PS4 version coming, but maybe that's my imagination.
It was definitely ambitious given the tech involved and how late into last gen we were. They tried though and cross gameplay is getting more relevant, so I think not all was lost...
DUST514 players create EVE:Phoenix trailers as part of their #PortDUST514 campaign.
Since the announcement of the DUST514 sequel EVE:Legion by CCP Games at FanFest 2014, there has been an almost eerie silence about the project from the game’s creators. Domains and trademarks were registered, and later left expired, for the EVE:Legion brand, and the player base was left watching as no actual news or progress updates were given by CCP, even at the various player-gatherings or CCP’s own FanFest 2015.
The players of DUST514, both past and current, have rallied under a banner, #PortDUST514, led by Ripley Riley, and are using this hashtag on social media to highlight that there is still a desire for a sequel or a port of the game to a more recent platform than the Playstation 3.
Most recently, this has resulted in the players creating propaganda posters and “memes”, and even voiced trailers, for what they themselves have named EVE:Phoenix.
The player Pokey Dravon, with the help of several other players, created this trailer for the campaign.
To be honest I never heard about this game until a couple of months ago, and now will everything leading up to new consoles, this game is definitely one under my radar. The concept seems interesting and promising, but I'm not sure it's something I'll get around to actually playing before new consoles release, not to mention games like GTA5 ect..
I literally just played this for the first time in a few months... All I can say at this point, is the most recent update ruined it a bit for me. I had a ton of fun in the closed beta, but I don't know now... It doesn't feel the same. It feels even slower and clunkier than it was (which is kind of crazy, considering how slow and clunky it already was).
The game just really needs a lot of work.
I always thought Dust 514 was in the shadow of Planetside 2. Sure, both EVE and Dust is connected, but i doubt it'll be that popular.
I have been playing dust since E3 last year its a fun game but you need to join a corp to really get into it, solo playing will just get boring. the article talks about this being a "true" beta not just a demo or server test and this is very true the game is changing in the last 2 hours they have shown off some new graphics that are being deployed on may 6th. consoles have never really had a game quite like this (that i know of) and its not going to appeal to everyone but there are console gamers out there that want a deeper game and dust can give them that
There supposed to have a huge update on may 6th that will change or fix a lot of things. But ya unless they can get it running on ps4 also, then ya there a year or 2 late with this thing. I mean it's still in beta form with no official release date with the ps4 probably 6 to 8 months away. But hey if they officially release it in a couple months and then release like a year later on ps4 and there connected and u can bring your character over and play with ps3 people they might be in fine shape. It depends on what there ultimate plan is and how addictive the game becomes.