Rorian Gray
HavoK Core
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2014.05.06 20:11:00 -
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I've been holding my tongue waiting for more info to drop, but I think it's been long enough. I don't like to complain, but CCP has shown they might be a bit out of touch with the players at the moment.
1) The DUST keynote was simply a **** move to the console-only gamers you attracted with the release of DUST. Many of us DUST players, myself included, are PC FPS gamers and/or EVE players also, and will be happy with Legion on PC, when we're not playing EVE. But I feel the need to apologize to the console-only gamers in my corp whom I persuaded to invest money in DUST. They invested based on CCP's reputation for being upfront and transparent largely, in the belief that DUST would persist on console after PS3 and would be developed on PS3 for several years. They invested not because they loved the game as it is, but because they bought in on a promise of what it was becoming. DUST players paid to fly to Iceland to attend fanfest because they wanted to see MTACs and player markets revealed, and celebrate the work CCP had done on DUST since 1.8 and what they would be able to enjoy in the upcoming year. And you invited them there on their own dime, and you broke up with them in front of a live audience.
2) Post-fanfest communication has been too little and too slow. CCP owes a front-page apology to DUST players for leaving any information about the future of DUST out of the DUST keynote, for waiting that long to suggest you were looking in another direction, and for the delays in getting information out after the announcement.
3) CCP needs to acknowledge that there are DUST players who have no interest in a PC FPS, and that there are players who want to know the future of DUST besides how it relates to Project Legion. CCP made statements before acknowledging the importance of new blood on console and how it would make the PC experience for EVE players better by giving more content. I agreed with that, and now you have those players, and they want to know straight forwardly what content you've been working on since 1.8 dropped. If that is nothing, they deserve to know. If the player market that was still in discussion recently has been dropped, they deserve to know. The only statement I have heard is that balancing and matchmaking will be worked on, and left us to speculate whether that meant that was _all_ that would still be worked on or not. If content development is done and the game is considered feature complete, please state so plainly and on the front page. If not, please at least share something that has been done in the sprint[s] since 1.8, or what is on the current sprint backlog. The CCP I hailed as rockstars would have done this already, and it concerns and embarrasses me how this is being handled so far. Please get your act together for all our sakes. |