Gamers that Dust 514 want to play, must have a deposit to pay between ten and twenty dollars. This deposit is converted into in-game credits. Developer CCP announced earlier that the game is free to play.
At the recent E3 fair announced CCP that Dust 514 in the summer of 2012, exclusive to the PlayStation 3. The game would be free to play, while CCP money on the game would earn with microtransacties. Players of the game can by the pilots of the pc mmog, EVE Online will be hired to land battles on planets to perform. The events of both games are set in the same universe and have influence on each other.
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz gives CCP ceo Hilmar Pétursson to that CCP as new Dust 514 players a deposit will be ask. Pétursson does not exclude that Dust 514 later after the release without the deposit playable. According to Pétursson, the deposit required to the launchkosten of the game manageable.
What kind of objects of the inleggeld can be purchased in the game, mentions Pétursson not. This is probably because of the controversy that a few weeks ago, broke out in the EVE community about microtransacties in EVE Online. According to leaked documents would make CCP think about it for real money to ask for things like ships, weapons, and ammunition. Officially would CCP only money for vanity items, objects that are only for show, in the Incarna-expansion of the mmog.