Does anyone have a link, or even better, can someone copy/pasta their response? (twitter is trash for anything other than witty one-liners and pictures of lunches)

https://twitter.com/kanafchian/status/431225612775084033
https://twitter.com/kanafchian/status/431248151488757761
and
https://twitter.com/kanafchian/status/431248568910090241

are the relevant ones.

Either way, this isn't a torches and pitchforks moment for me. I'm more interested in constructively advancing the conversation, and making it clear where our concern as player and content makers lies.

It seems to me like they really do want to tell us the changes they want to make, but are under some sort of NDA and are unable to do so.

Which begs the question: who's holding the reins on these NDA's? Is it Sony? CCP? CCP Shanghai itself?

The inability to explain future changes to this game is kind of hurting them rather than protecting anything, I think.

but, but, but, CCPMintchip

[10:48:11] Kane Spero: CCP realizes that they have ****** up I can say that much.

A really great discussion. I think a lot this gets at some core dissatisfaction that many players have with the game right now. The key is that the FPS part has to be engaging and fun. Does it have to be the best FPS experience out there? No, but it has have a minimum of entertainment. Unfortunately, if the FPS part just leads to a dead end in terms of the bigger picture Dust will follow right along to that dead end as well.

The gameplay and moment to moment is what is going to hook people in at the start, but it's going to be the community and the "greater game" that keep people here.

Also, a tutorial mode would be massively helpful. New people have no idea what they're doing at all and never will without spending large amounts of time which most don't want to do or can't.

Instead I'll mention how there's a dire need for ISK to be generated in other ways than simply hopping on and shooting a gun. It's another one of those "this is a basic game design within EVE, how did this not get thought of or integrated?" issues. Manufacturing or salvaging items to then use is one potential option to handle the lack of player driven market. There needs to be different methods to make ISK, which at present is limited to just one and it's not even that good.

If you listened to the average person posting on this boards you'd think that new guns was the most important thing ever, but it really isn't. Add a new gun and 2 weeks later people are bored. We need the tools and mechanics to start creating our own content, in the form of drama and skullduggery.

"Welcome to the game. Here's your collection of # page forum manuals on how to play." <-- doesn't that just sound fun

exactly, the casual player will never do this, even the interested player will assume they can 'figure it out' fail horribly and have a good chance of not playing the game again concluding its 'bad or simpley 'too confusing'. the low population shows only the super hardcore and people familiar with new eden are sticking around. this defeats the very purpose of going f2p and giving equal access to 80M PS3 users. the NPE will continue to make or break Dust, we have been saying it since May of 2012. http://dustmercs.blogspot.com/2012/05/dust-514-impressions.html

'This game needs a Game Tutorial that will tell players about every aspect of the game, how to be successful and even little things like the differences between Amarr and Minmatar, what PG and CPU are and how the info tab is your friend. This just isn't a forty-yard dash, its a marathon. And if the tutorial isn't well done you'll miss out on a lot of players.'

Just got an email from CCP for a customer survey. I put a link to this thread in one of the comment boxes for Dust, along with a summary of Samahiel's three main points.

I'd like to add here that I completely understand why the link to Eve is so small right now. Linking two wildly different games like this has never been done before and it had the potential to backfire in a rather spectacular way. It had to start small. The last thing that CCP needed was another summer of rage following a rushed merging of the two games. Then we had a rough period where some core mechanics were very badly in need of attention. I'm not really too interested in why this rough period happened, but I've been a developer for 8 years now. Things simply don't always go the way you hope they will, and what is done is done.

This should have a blue tag.

I indeed think tutorials are needed.

But personaly I don't think CCP should fixate to much on newer players at this moment.
Theres no marketing campaign, no real efforts to drag new players into this game anyways, and besides that it's hard to keep players in a half finished game on an olds console. So lets just face the fact that there is not a huge "new player flow"

IMO the right way to go would is to concentrate on what we already have. Atm we have a somehow stable playerbase, build of mostly hardcore gamers who wanna see this game grow. so instead of letting those players go and hope for newer players join and stay we need to concentrate ion the actual game and especially on the eve/dust link.

It is crucial to extend the game and to build up a direct and feelable connection between those games. this is what dust seperates from other games, and if we let this go, we all just can move on to any other lobby shooter. Heck we wouldn't even have to worry about skillpoint anymore lol.

CCP should use the time on Ps3 to concentrate on building up the game. Once this is done and the game is in a stable good working state and good connection with eve, port it to PS4 with a huge ass advertise campaign=profit.

Selling half baked bread just works for one day.

This should have a blue tag.

This should have a blue tag.

CCP Mintchip notwithstanding, I stand by my word. And I like how you only quoted the first part.

imagine your on the surface of a FW district, you're messing around, practicing flying dropships or squad tactics, and in comes the enemy MCC. BATTLE COMMENCES.