Could have been anything, really. Budget concerns at the time, employees leaving for whatever reason (I know at least a Game Designer and Executive Producer no longer work there) or it could have been pressures from Sony; you never really know but you can always speculate. What's important though is that they -are- hiring the position and taking pretty great strides to ensure change

Indeed many possibilities but it may be too late if they don't already have something awesome planned for fan fest

I promise that a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes - arguably more than ever. :)

And yes I do have tickets...My Questions will be LOUD and AS Follows..." Where are your promises of the game you so richly described last year here at Fan Fest??? Do you have better ideas on what you promised us last year that you could not deliver, Is that why it is taking you so long??? How come you could you not deliver anything you promised but two new racial Assault Rifles, and a patch completely untested by your community, delivery date of said patch TBA, with the introduction of a full set of changes and the "Other Half" of the Racial Suits.... What can you tell us "This Year" that will keep a player base that has fallen off because of a severe lack of "New Player Experience" and a lack of delivery?

You have finite number of resources in an office. So Master Smurf for this Socratic Exercise you're going to be the office manager. You have your staff that you now need to divide into teams. Like artists, programmers and testers/balances (whatever you want to call them). You currently have multiple projects on your plate and 50 employees.

1. Introducing new content (armor, guns, maps)
2. Balancing Content (New and old)
3. Art and design for all projects
4. Managing interaction with the player base

These are just broad categories, refine them as you wish. Not every project is finished. You and your staff work on average 8-10 hours per day. You have 30 days to refine as much as you can before having to release this content. Each person will work between 240 - 300 hours per month. More if you force overtime every single day of the week. Now this your show. How do you divide your assets?

I support this fully.

@Heinrich Jagerblitzen - respect.

This is what people want to hear, especially the ones that have been here and heard song and dance before. That a new wind has blown through is very comforting and I hope to see the fruits of that labour in the upcoming months.

Confirming that the above statement is NOT total bull****.

I've seen CCP during slow periods, I've seen CCP during periods where they've just been doing a s**** of communicating about work they absolutely should be sharing with the public, this does not qualify as either.

This is hands down the most productive period I've seen since taking office as a CPM rep, the studio is growing faster than ever before, and there are concrete plans guiding this process. The lack of information shared at this time is intentional (and in my opinion, for completely understandable reasons). CCP wants to be sure their communications are of substance moving forward, in sharp contrast to last year's FF where a bunch of hype was dished out without much regard to feasibility.

Once Rouge is ready to show what he's been preparing for everyone, you'll likely see the communication frequency increase sharply again (and become regular). The silence for the past few months is very specific to the current work in progress, I don't have any indication from where I sit that it will be a trend. I applaud Rouge and the rest of upper management (and the new dev staff) for being so forthcoming with the CPM about their plans, every step of the way.

There will be an end to this, that's all I can say at this time. I totally understand where you guys are coming from, I'd be going bonkers if I wasn't one of the few CCP is consulting about their work-in-progress. Your frustration is completely justified. Believe me, I was around last summer when communication was really in the dumps, and it was because of CCP employees failing to do their jobs to engage the public. I've always called this **** out when it happens. The reasons for the silence have changed sharply in the last few months however, even if the end result for public has not.

Anyways, I won't belabor the point I just wanted to stop by and give you guys what little perspective I can. I look forward to the next couple of months as everyone is brought up to speed finally on where Dust is going. And it is going places. I've never seen more investment in the game (by all measurements: financially, manpower, etc) than I have since Rouge has come on board.

Now lets hope he's not b********** a possible b****** post

From what I've seen him post in the past he comes across as a straight shooter and even though I dont know him, I like what he posts and where he would like to see the game go.

Its not like in the past where a certain CPM seemed like de facto spokesperson, and chief defender.

Now if things continue to slip then obviously all hope in CCP's productivity will be lost and nobody will be able to vouch for them. At this point in time I choose to listen to someone I trust who is closer to the situation than us and give CCP a stay of execution

If you're entirely serious about coming to Fanfest and being from a news organization, I might recommend you shoot an email to CCP Manifest ( [email protected] ).

Confirming that the above statement is NOT total bull****.

I've seen CCP during slow periods, I've seen CCP during periods where they've just been doing a s**** of communicating about work they absolutely should be sharing with the public, this does not qualify as either.

This is hands down the most productive period I've seen since taking office as a CPM rep, the studio is growing faster than ever before, and there are concrete plans guiding this process. The lack of information shared at this time is intentional (and in my opinion, for completely understandable reasons). CCP wants to be sure their communications are of substance moving forward, in sharp contrast to last year's FF where a bunch of hype was dished out without much regard to feasibility.

Once Rouge is ready to show what he's been preparing for everyone, you'll likely see the communication frequency increase sharply again (and become regular). The silence for the past few months is very specific to the current work in progress, I don't have any indication from where I sit that it will be a trend. I applaud Rouge and the rest of upper management (and the new dev staff) for being so forthcoming with the CPM about their plans, every step of the way.

There will be an end to this, that's all I can say at this time. I totally understand where you guys are coming from, I'd be going bonkers if I wasn't one of the few CCP is consulting about their work-in-progress. Your frustration is completely justified. Believe me, I was around last summer when communication was really in the dumps, and it was because of CCP employees failing to do their jobs to engage the public. I've always called this **** out when it happens. The reasons for the silence have changed sharply in the last few months however, even if the end result for public has not.

Anyways, I won't belabor the point I just wanted to stop by and give you guys what little perspective I can. I look forward to the next couple of months as everyone is brought up to speed finally on where Dust is going. And it is going places. I've never seen more investment in the game (by all measurements: financially, manpower, etc) than I have since Rouge has come on board.

Confirming that the above statement is NOT total bull****.

I've seen CCP during slow periods, I've seen CCP during periods where they've just been doing a s**** of communicating about work they absolutely should be sharing with the public, this does not qualify as either.

This is hands down the most productive period I've seen since taking office as a CPM rep, the studio is growing faster than ever before, and there are concrete plans guiding this process. The lack of information shared at this time is intentional (and in my opinion, for completely understandable reasons). CCP wants to be sure their communications are of substance moving forward, in sharp contrast to last year's FF where a bunch of hype was dished out without much regard to feasibility.

Once Rouge is ready to show what he's been preparing for everyone, you'll likely see the communication frequency increase sharply again (and become regular). The silence for the past few months is very specific to the current work in progress, I don't have any indication from where I sit that it will be a trend. I applaud Rouge and the rest of upper management (and the new dev staff) for being so forthcoming with the CPM about their plans, every step of the way.

There will be an end to this, that's all I can say at this time. I totally understand where you guys are coming from, I'd be going bonkers if I wasn't one of the few CCP is consulting about their work-in-progress. Your frustration is completely justified. Believe me, I was around last summer when communication was really in the dumps, and it was because of CCP employees failing to do their jobs to engage the public. I've always called this **** out when it happens. The reasons for the silence have changed sharply in the last few months however, even if the end result for public has not.

Anyways, I won't belabor the point I just wanted to stop by and give you guys what little perspective I can. I look forward to the next couple of months as everyone is brought up to speed finally on where Dust is going. And it is going places. I've never seen more investment in the game (by all measurements: financially, manpower, etc) than I have since Rouge has come on board.

I'm paranoid to believe if this is either legitimate, or a subterfuge for damage control.

I didn't even know this person was a CPM.

If you ask this question, people around you will think you're speaking on our behalf. Think about that carefully.

@ OP:

Quite frankly, most of the promises made by the previous EP did not happen because shortly after making those promises, he was no longer with CCP.

It's still unclear to this day how much of those promises were even in the pipeline or if he basically just went up on stage basically saying whatever cool stuff his underlings had fed to him without fully realizing the time and effort involved in realizing those. It's also irrelevant.

It is also reasonable and safe for anyone to assume that the bulk of the promises will not happen as stated by an EP who is no longer at the helm.


Like you, The CPM held up a lot of the previous promises during our initial meetings with CCP Rouge shortly after his arrival... Stating that it was these promises that got people excited and what made people want to keep playing. In response he said something that really hit home: "Should we really be trying to live up to old promises and goals made foolishly that left us with dust as it is now... or strive to set new goals to make it the game it always should have been?"

Not making promises without being able to back them up is a lesson that CCP is slowly learning, and one of the reasons why we're not seeing much from them recently, despite a few showerings of awesome attentiveness from a few of the devs (Balance feedback threads for 1.8, etc.) This is something we're glad for. We'd much rather have CCP delivering news of things that are actually being worked on and time feasible, than just saying whatever they can to try to draw people in because it sounds ~cool as hell~.


To echo Heinrich and Saberwing : Suffice it to say... There IS a plan, and with new leadership comes new goals and ideals. Without hearing this plan for yourselves, it is understandable for you to have doubts. Like anything... some will approve, others will disapprove. We have been in constant talks with CCP trying to nail down the details of where and when certain details get released (We're always pushing for information being released sooner than later... like the 1.8 balancing stuff)

I won't blame anyone for not trusting this faith we have in Rouge, but I can only hope that once he starts getting his stuff out there, people will share our optimism for a bright future for Dust.

There IS a plan, and with new leadership comes new goals and ideals. Without hearing this plan for yourselves, it is understandable for you to have doubts.

I assure you it isn't. I'm very glad that Hans jumped in to reaffirm what I've been saying. I know it's difficult to sympathize from the outside, but I can only promise that we are working incredibly hard behind the scenes to make an awesome game and we will be able to reveal much more in time.

Until we hear this plan for ourselves, there is nothing CCP could say that would allay our concerns for the future of the title.

Until CCP decides that the people who play this game deserve to have some idea of where the game is going and a rough estimate of how long it might take for certain things to be done, then the community will remain as toxic and cynical as it has become.

I stopped playing Eve because I grew sick of hearing SoonGäó instead of a real plan, and that same attitude will eventually drive me from Dust.

If CCP wants us to accept that they have a plan, they should provide some info. If CCP wants a community that isn't waiting for things that are not coming, maybe they should come out and say that item X,Y, and Z are off the table.

For myself, I have no faith in CCP, nor will I become some optimist based on some words posted on a forum. If CCP wants to wait to fanfest to release a small amount of info, expect that I will be laughing my ass off when the community freaks out.

There are very few developers who can get away with saying "We will release info when it is ready, and the product when it is ready" and have people place faith in them. CCP is not one of those companies. They have a long track record of completely crapping the bed, so betting on them to succeed is a surefire way to end up broke.

I am going to give CCP until Fanfest to get their house in order. By the end of fanfest, if there is not substantial changes to the way CCP informs the playerbase of where development stands and where it is heading, I'm out. I have invested more than enough time and money into this game. If CCP spends fanfest getting their egos stroked and saying SoonGäó, I'll gladly biomass all my characters and forget that I ever played a CCP product.

A developer that produces substandard software and then has the audacity to act as if what they are working on and its progress are nuclear secrets is the type of developer that does not deserve my respect, my time, or my money.