Didn't they outsource? Isn't CCP Shangai just a codename given to another company for the purpose of game promotion?

It's too expensive to release patches, which places the importance on game testing which isn't CCP strong suit. It seems they are more invested in Valkyrie and VR then Dust. I don't blame them, they lost 22m $ last year so a free to play game isn't gonna be their focus.

During the year the company assessed its capitalized development assets and determined that a portion of those assets would likely not have future economic benefits. IAS 38 requires that such assets should be derecognized and removed from the balance sheet. The expense related to the derecognized assets are presented as part of research and development expense in the statement of comprehensive income.

CCP would have lost $30.4 million, but the company's accounts are good and apparently made $9 million from income tax.

Really I think the only issue is the programmers don't play the game, and the designers simply give them mandarin stickies saying... Flaylock too strong or Tanks too weak.

A Public Test server would fix that and would save everyones actual characters from getting lolraped by the eventual FOTM that spawns from every half baked idea that gets thrown live without testing.

Hmmm disturbing, nothing but a tax write off. But it's not like they are making a whole lot of money off Dust except from those that are throwing money at active boosters lol.

If that is the case then we just will have to be prepared for broken game updates ruining some aspect of the game until they add another update that may fix the old issue while simultaneously breaking the next thing. Oh well it's just a game, plenty of other games to play.

That's a cop out though, I used Rail Rifle and tanks and CR day one of the patch and saw it was broken. When I first started at "Full Release" it was obvious that Caldari Shield Tanks were overpowered. When the armor buff hit, it was obvious they went overboard. They always go overboard. When the flaylock was too good, they went overboard. It's not hard to tweak unless you tweak gradually but they don't do that. They take a giant wrench and smash a rolex then say why doesn't it tick? Screw it we'll check back in 3 months. I know games will be buggy, I've played many, but the only games I've played that have consistently been this bad in a pvp environment (IE. a lobby shooter) are Korean fps rpgs. Maybe it's just the genre that is broken, as I haven't seen this issue outside of the limited field of games that are fps rpg lobby shooters. I haven't played their major competitor Planetside 2 but the grass does looke greener on the other side, and at least from appearances they don't say "Hold on scooter, you can't play with this toy until you waded through **** for 3 months" only to then once you have waded through the **** break the toy and say "Well now, sorry buddy, but maybe you should just play with this other toy once you have waded through another 3 months of ****." Ad infinitum.

I guess for an analogy we aren't talking the difference between the G36 and AK 47 in COD4, every update it is the difference between the Skorpion and the P90 in every update where something is changed. A flavor of the month in many games is an issue of slight optimal performance. We are talking about how a swarm launcher tickles a tank for christ's sake.

Edit: If you aren't familiar with the plethora of Korean made f2p games I'm being pretty cruel comparing this game to them, they are some of the worst made games that aren't coming from one guys basement, and some games from one guys basement are better than those turds.