CCP's Dust 514: PC/Console Overlap In Space
EDIT: No platforms are confirmed for this other than "console", we'll get more info as soon as possible.
So CCP have revealed just what the mysterious Dust 514 actually is: a console action MMO featuring "first-person shooter and RTS-style gameplay", set in the Eve Online universe. Disappointing, eh? But there's an intriguing twist: PC and console games will be able to interact, and the faction warfare map that gets decided in space on the PC, will also decide the map in the console game. There's more, as Gamasutra reports:
Players in the PC MMO can "fund mercenaries and give them goals" in the console title. CCP's Petursson hope that "these communities will meld over time", expecting specific Dust 514 corporations to start with, but eventually social structures that bridge across the two. He quipped of the new game and the relationship between the two titles: "While the fleet does the flying, the infantry does the dying."
So PC gamers get to be the space-bound commanders of the console foot-soldiers... That isn't going to help our elitism complex, is it?