A pleasent surprise came today: Dust 514

Please tell me why Blizzard can't be this innovative?

Edit: More news links can be found here.

Official CCP press release.

Gameplay trailer and presentation.

Holy crap that is sick.  I look forward to seeing how they blend the communities, and this game is right up my alley. 

Here is a Twitter log from someone there:

#EVE now almost full democracy - Council of Stellar Management representatives are player-chosen in an election

#ooh ooh ooh - video announcement!
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it's in space....
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..a first-person shooter??
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holy crap... looks brilliant
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'DUST 514' is the name - looks very Halo. great feeling of warzone
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...it's a hybrid FPS and RTS set within the EVE universe, for consoles. It's CCP's MMO for consoles!
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takes place on the planets of EVE Online
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backstory to the 'cloned' soldiers coming in an upcoming EVE book
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EVE players fight in space... Dust 514 players fight on the ground... both feed together to dictate control of systems in EVE universe. (????????????)
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Been in development for three years at CCP's Shanghai studio... woah.
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playing the trailer AGAIN... but it's amazing so worth it
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40 per cent of all tech exports out of Iceland are EVE Online... trending to 50 per cent. amazing. proof what game devs can do
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and that's it... talk over... everyone is buzzing! what an amazing demonstration. very, very excited.less than 20 seconds ago from TwitterFox

Veni.

Great news!

I don't play consoles, so this isn't for me, but I still think it's brilliant.

Do the same thing, but with a mouse and keyboard please.

Yeah if it ain't on the PC then whocares? FPS plays like crap without Keyboard and mouse.

eh i dunno about this. I like and play eve but .... this game would have to have some badass gameplay and be worth the buy to compete with every other FPS on the market. I also hope there isn't a monthly fee (over 5$). I mean for eve players, they already pay 15, 30, 45$ a month just for eve .... too add another 15$ for this game monthly i think would be stretching it. Waiting for the video to stream now, so i hope it turns out to be something popular to take advantage of the large universe.

 i'm currios if the action of player playng 514 wiil infuence eve online and vice versa, this is a huge step towards walking on planets/stations, who nows maybe someday you will be able to raid a ship or something like that, blend space sim with fps, would be interesting to see what happens. I'l surelly keep my eye on this project.

As a huge fan of PlanetSide, I am disappointed they chose to make this only for consoles.  Oh well.

This isn't WoD Online, ergo, something that is not newsworthy from CCP.

Originally posted by Murais

This isn't WoD Online, ergo, something that is not newsworthy from CCP.

Not exactly, but it does tell us what CCP Shanghai has been working on for the last couple of years. As we already know what CCP Reykjavik is working on it brings some spekulation to CCP Atlanta might pull out of the hat in the near future.

 So I will be able to nuke console players from orbit? sounds good... 

Not surprising to see negative feedback on this forum.

I think its a great idea. I'll play it, and I don't play EVE. FPS generally have no "point". This gives the game a reason.

Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

Not surprising to see negative feedback on this forum.

I think its a great idea. I'll play it, and I don't play EVE. FPS generally have no "point". This gives the game a reason.

Exactly. What makes a FPS interesting is not how fancy the graphics are or how many weapons you can wield but what the point behind the figthing is (in my opinion of course).

This is a stupid idea, why not just release the full Eve MMO on consoles?  What the hell is wrong with developers, there is a whole untapped market (consoles) and no one is trying to capture it.  Dumb move by CCP to waste money on this crap.

This is a brilliant idea! I am in. Is it for the PS3 or the 360. Hey the PS3 slim will be 299.00/

Originally posted by Lateris

This is a brilliant idea! I am in. Is it for the PS3 or the 360. Hey the PS3 slim will be 299.00/

Both the PS3 and 360 and probably also for the PC since they didnt officially say PC platform was ruled out.

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

I don't play consoles, so this isn't for me, but I still think it's brilliant.

 

Do the same thing, but with a mouse and keyboard please.

Originally posted by Dreizack

This is a stupid idea, why not just release the full Eve MMO on consoles?  What the hell is wrong with developers, there is a whole untapped market (consoles) and no one is trying to capture it.  Dumb move by CCP to waste money on this crap.

I guess they wanted more of an action feel to the game. You know most people have the attention span of squirrels, so EVE immediately comes across as boring. Console players are even worse - they'd drop the game without even finishing the tutorial.

I'm interested to see how this turns out. How they're connecting it to EVE is very cool.

Originally posted by Comnitus

Originally posted by Dreizack

This is a stupid idea, why not just release the full Eve MMO on consoles?  What the hell is wrong with developers, there is a whole untapped market (consoles) and no one is trying to capture it.  Dumb move by CCP to waste money on this crap.

I guess they wanted more of an action feel to the game. You know most people have the attention span of squirrels, so EVE immediately comes across as boring. Console players are even worse - they'd drop the game without even finishing the tutorial.

I'm interested to see how this turns out. How they're connecting it to EVE is very cool.

You are right about that, I doubt a Halo/GoW player would get past the opening credits of EvE Online.