When DUST 514 was first announced, a number of player concerns rose to the forefront. Chief among them the question of how EVE Online would be affected by the new game. At this year's Fan Fest, MMORPG.com's Jon Wood found the answer to that concern and more.

When CCP announced that they were making Dust 514, a console-based MMOFPS that would tie into the universe of their current PC MMORPG EVE Online, reaction was mixed. When the team revealed more details at this year’s Fan Fest, reaction from the gathered crowd of hardcore EVE players appeared to be almost unanimously positive.

This could owe, at least in part, to the fact that while up until now players have known nothing but a few details about the game. So, while the game is most certainly still in a pre-alpha phase of development and there are some questions that still can not or will not be answered, Fan Fest did provide numerous new details and addressed a number of the overall concerns that were voiced when the game was first announced.

Read DUST 514: Speaking to Player Concerns

Awesome guys.

While I look forward to the Sim planetary game within Eve I find Dust interesting and will be supporting CCP with atleast a Box purchase of Dust.

The Eve universe suddenly has everything. Elements of RTS, Sim, Fps  and much much more.

Great time to be an Eve fan.

It looks nice with the graphics and design, but I do not have a console system, and this will not be the sole reason i purchase one (with a TV and everything) So just EVE will have to do until they release it to PC.

Not having a PC version seems like a huge mistake. It's not that hard to port an FPS game from console to PC compared to some other types of games. Also, most of Dust's initial market is guaranteed to have a PC.

I'm glad its console only. There are already alot of good PC games coming out soon, so this just makes my list of games to check out smaller. Thanks, CCP.

Being that I have a blue ray player that also happens to be a playstation 3 that is collecting dust (pun intended), this is going to be awesome.

Not porting to pc is a mistake, no doubt about it.

I actually believe there's a PC version but they are trying to make sure they deliver a good console version to see how that plays out before releasing to the elite squadron of PC gamers. It makes sense in that they keep saying they are currently focusing on delivering a flawless console experience and not totally denying no PC version. Tell me if they could listen to us say we won't pay another subscription fee why won't they listen to a mass of PC gamers saying they want a PC version?

it is not a mistake, and why? because console and pc controls are very different, the console has a much slower pace and turning ability than the pc, so if they have to bring to PC they will only bring to pc, if they decide to bring to both they have to make them on 2 seperate servers and that wont work.

Hard to mix PC and console players on the same map.  With the mouse and a decent gaming system any player would have a distinct advantage over someone on a console using a controller.  That is a known fact.

I'm impressed and pleased to see CCP making an innovative move like this - integrating multiple gameplay styles within the same overall game world.

A developer dependent upon an external publisher would be unlikely to make, or to be able to make, this kind of product decision.  My hat's off to CCP.

PC and console don't mix.  Why go console at all?  How many times do devs have to hear "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"?

 All the cash I got into a PC I am NOT going to buy a stupid console.

With FPS I strongly disagree that controllers are any disadvantage to a mouse. Some people are better with a controller then a mouse. It is pure preference and what you are most used to.

I feel CCP is sort of leaving their EVE players out. I feel that is a very poor move.

Originally posted by Darter

PC and console don't mix.  Why go console at all?  How many times do devs have to hear "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"?

An untapped market is why go console.

Adding to things said, apart from hardcore gamers that run both "systems" the regular PC gamer community differs a lot to the regular console gamer community. Not only by age ;-)
They filled New Eden with the PC (and Mac, OKOK...) gamers already, time to let the consoleros shoot - with more action & effects and less depth & thinking *grin*

Originally posted by Darter

PC and console don't mix.  Why go console at all?  How many times do devs have to hear "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"?

Because we want something new??? The whole article was about innovation.

Going by the video,  the biggest challenge for them now would be to fill in the numbers.

how many people will be able to play in a match, for the scale they are going for 36 v. 36 is not going to cut it, esspecially with the massive nature that eve carries.

i anticipate ccp's answer as for how many players on one match can participate.  that and the ground rules of winning a match on the defenders side.

Originally posted by XoloX

Adding to things said, apart from hardcore gamers that run both "systems" the regular PC gamer community differs a lot to the regular console gamer community. Not only by age ;-)
They filled New Eden with the PC (and Mac, OKOK...) gamers already, time to let the consoleros shoot - with more action & effects and less depth & thinking *grin*

I think your wrong. I know several people between say 20 yrs old and my age that play console games. Xbox live is very popular with older people, i know several cops that play shooters on Xbox and people in the military as well. PC gamers are just going to have to accept the fact that consoles are a contender and arnt going to go away. Less depth and thought? Yeah only brain surgeons play PC games. 

The older crowd in EVE sending the younger console gamer kids to war, geez. lol! :P

yeah us gamer kids are growing up :)