Dust 514 - Eve-online

EVE Online Windows and Mac players duel in space, while Dust 514 Xbox and PlayStation players slug it out on the ground, and the latter informs the former in Icelandic developer CCP's surprise GDC Europe announcement breaking this morning across the pond. You read right: Dust 514 (EVE buffs, explain the name please?) is a "first-person-shooter-massively-multiplayer-online-real-time-strategy-MMO" (one sec, catching my breath) designed for consoles, and it's linked with EVE Online, CCP's sophisticated science fiction space-trading game. Linked, according to CCP, in that Dust "becomes an input" for the computer-based MMO and "dictates" aspects of its content.

Imagine snapping the locks off planetary abstraction in EVE and you've got the gist of Dust 514. Now you'll be able to visit the planets in the EVE Online universe and see what the fuss is all about up close and personal. According to CCP, you assume the role of a marine doing, well, what marines do best in conflict zones. The backstory involves something to do with cloned soldiers, and we'll see more teasers in an upcoming EVE book. You knew there were books about EVE, right?

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[HawK047]

Awesome. But still, why no PC?:(

[HawK047]

Sure, EVE Online is for the PC. And I love EVE. But in heart I've always been an FPS player. I loved the time of games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein en Aliens vs Predator 2. FPS games like today make me sad.

If any, I was very much in love with an MMOFPS game named Planetside. And I would love for another game like that. When CCP announced an MMOFPS I was joyed, untill I heard about it being consoles only.:(

[o0Steward0o]

so is dust a: MMORPGFPSRTS?

[maraux1972]

Regarding the "why not pc?" -topic...I am too one of those who would love having the option platying DUST as a choice since not having a PS. There is the answer to everyones question, why allow present customers a alternative, since not many will sit and pay 2 monthly fees, its one or the other. Market is the console-gamers, which yet hasnt paid any $ to CCP, they are attempting to attract new type of gamers, customers, not keep the ones they already have

[Timster480]

@HawK047 2 reasons, first reason is that if pc gamers could play this,it would make it unplayable for console gamers (unless you totally ingored what he said,it is connected with the mmo) and the second reason is that SOMEONE has to do the rts side of it,SURELY you aren't suggesting we let console fags give commands

think about it,the people on the ground are clonable grunts that mean nothing to anyone,it only makes sense that it be for console,the pc master race will be commanding the bitches

[12togo34]

@HawK047 because the PC internet has more restrictions with online stuff, like eve, and would NEVER alow 2 games to be linked together,on the other hand consoles have less restrictions and will alow that,and i herd this from a comment

[MvSly14]

Well no the made it on consoles to try and connect players but now it's only coming on ps3 because of restrictions xbox has

[Dhomess]

Also, its a PS3 exclusive now.

[HermitGeek]

I can see it now, the marines standing onboard ship looking out the window at the huge battle for orbit going on praying that the ship they are on doesnt become the primary target.

[CaptainCarthex]

I think the reason it's only on consoles is because if it were on PC, they might lose EVE "subscribers" (lol plex) also, if it were on PC and Consoles, PC players would be able to own the heck out of Console players because of unlimited turning speed with mouse- unless they somehow forced gamepad use which would be stupid.

[Uaxis]

This sounds like a game where you can 'change the world'... but whatever you do, you don't really have all that much change on the world, because some other big dog will inevitably get ahead of you. So, seeing as that's the whole thing that lures people into the game anyway...

Yeah. It's CCP's thing in other words.