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In this thread: Inflated sense of significance.

PS2 is a reasonably big deal, because so few things like it exist - MMOFPS solely focused on PVP.
PS2 isn't that big a deal because so many things like it exist - There are many large multiplayer FPS titles.
Compared to the big console titles it's small fry. Compared to other MMOs it's teensy.
Even in its heyday, Planetside just wasn't all that big.
I'd say Dust is more significant because its part of a currently popular MMO's universe.

In short, PS2 has the "good enough" problem. You can play Battlefield for pretty darn large FPS battles. Does adding in 100 more people really matter? Probably not for FPS folks.
You can play EVE or WoW or SWTOR for lots of people and PVP and persistence and depth. Do people that care about those things really wan to add FPS to the mix at the sacrifice of large amounts of non-pvp depth? Again, maybe, maybe not.

PS2, if it's going to get big, is going to have to be a "grower" title that doesn't have the release peak and decline but a more gradual build. And it seems like that's what SOE has set out to do.