And the author of the article is right – CCP better remember who pays the bills around here and make sure that EVE gets all the same sort of love that this waste of time console game is getting.

The resolution is waaaaay to low!

/grr

Wrong… This has been proven time and time again. Older characters create what we have always known as "twinks" – unfair advantage based on a capital influx from a higher ranking player, thus given a lower Sp character that edge, since everything in DUST has to be bought on the market (and it appears you lose it every time you die). The last sentence makes me want to bang my head against the desk as the death/kill ratio is high in FPS and being that they have AUR items seeded on their market (pay to win) – I can see newer players getting desperate and giving CCP that real capital influx. They know how their players operate, and if you can send the lamb to slaughter and make a few bucks doing it – they will.

Dust's quality level will go up as the games moves towards release, but you have to realize that CCP is not a AAA development house, not on the level that the makers of CoD and BF3 are. Also, it's a F2P game, and I can't think of a single game that started out as F2P that had AAA production quality.

CCP is hoping that a persistent universe, metagame politics and intrigue, and above average gameplay will hold players enough to build a userbase that will at least pay for itself and provide an engaging point of interaction for EVE players.

With a possibility of feeding the troll, I will just say that PvP instances in Eve are very bad for the game for all those reasons stated on the GD topics with the same "idea". If you want noob friendly PvP, join RvB or arrange something yourself – that's the beauty of a sandbox. And you can always do noob friendly PvP with the members of your corporation.

…my real purpose of writing here is I've dabbled with Dust 514-niner, and I must say, as a FPS… its quality is terrible. I completely understand its a BETA, but the game mechanics feel lousy, 3d engine lags, texture mapping and quality looks like a PS2 game, and load times are as bad as a sega saturn (yes I had one). I've been doing some research, and there's some indications that the release version will have better graphics. My only comment would be, "It better." All one has to do is pop in COD after playing the beta, and you can get a real feel for the difference.

So Yes, CCP has good vision with this game, however I fear their execution will make FPS players "hit reset" 10 minutes in to game play. Remember: Most FPS players are filthy mouthed 10-year old drinking red bull… I should be ADHD enough to engage them. If it's as complex as EVE… well.. then just play eve.