So I've put it a shit ton of hours into Dust 514. It "launched" to very mediocre reception, but that's because it they were probably forced to "launch" by contracts or whatever even though at the time it was in very rough shape. Since then they have made a ton of updates and progressed quite far.
At last years Fan Fest they decided to announce Project Legion which was essentially Dust 514 on PC under a new name, and despite a lot of a applaud from the EVE community and the outside community, the actual Dust 514 player base was complete pissed off. Imagine being told the game you've been playing and supporting with your money for 1 to 2 years at the time was going to have a huge announcement being made and hyped up for months, and the announcement ends up being "Hey guys, we're stopping serious development on Dust 514, all you'll get is small hotfixes now, and we're going to make a completely new game that is just a copy of this one but on PC only. No plans for PS4 which is the natural progression for most of you" Yeah, a lot of people were pissed. I edited to OT I made for the game to reflect that as well, it was a bad time. I even own a mid/high end PC now but it's still a shitty move not to include this on PS4 where it makes sense for your existing supporters to follow you.
Aaaaaaaaanyways . . . much like every Fan Fest that came before it, I'd take everything said at last Fan Fest with a huge grain of salt. They have been dead quite on it, hopefully to address the backlash. In the meantime, one of their guys in finance who actually was an avid player of Dust 514 himself was made the design lead of Dust 514 since then and the game has since received a bunch of really good updates, not just hotfixes. It's amazing what happens when you let someone who was a true fan control of the game. Everything is being kept pretty "hush hush" right now though as far as making big public announcements because as was evident at launch, people judge the game for ten minutes in it's current form and then decide to likely never play it again. Definitely feels like they are waiting for the right time to announce it to the public again, whether that is as Project Legion or even Dust 514 on PS4. However, this announcement is highly unlikely for this years Fan Fest. They only have a small team working on totally revamping it right now. In the meantime, if you're able to put up with the PS3 and understand that there is an ongoing revamping process ran by a small team, I'd recommend you check it out again and see the progress they made.
