14 DAY TRIAL // Developer CCP says that its upcoming Dust 514 shooter will offer gamers the same kind of opportunities for meta-gaming that are already present in the MMO EVE Online.
Jon Lander, who is a senior producer working on Dust 514, told PC Gamer that, “One of the guys on one team found and isolated another guy on the other team – not in the tournament, just found him and said ‘I will give you billions of in-game ISK if half way through the match you throw it and you turn on your own mates and sabotage it. I’ll give out all of this in-game money within EVE.”
He added, “So already people are meta-gaming, and the guy threw the game and they lost. So this other team that paid him all of this in-game money, they suddenly won the grand prize. And [his team] was like ‘Oooh, what did you do that for?’ And he was like “Ohhh, I messed up’.”
Dust 514 will be launched later during 2013 and will be integrated with EVE Online.