"People say the subscription MMO is dead. I fundamentally disagree with that. It's simply not the case."
We've been talking to EVE Online senior producer, John Lander, about the decline in subscription-funded gaming. In the past year the free-to-play model has dominated the PC MMO market but, as John mentions in the video, CCP have never considered it a viable option for their massively multiplayer space opera.
We recently asked every CCP man we could find whether DUST 514 is coming to PC . They didn't quite manage to deny it.
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