Kujo you are mostly right. Now they won't justify publicly but main reason is for money's sake.


I posted a thread with this 3 days before this Dust keynote and hit it spot on.
On a business perspective it is unwise to pour resources into a game that they were seeing little return from since our player base was so low.

The NPE for this game is complete garbage and was non-salvageable for the resources CCP has set.
No reason to spend alot of money for the sake of ~1000 consistent aurum buyers.
Only way to fix the NPE easily......is a fresh start. They've learned from their dust 514 project.

Even it they do find a way to transfer characters, whats going to happen? The NPE is going to be crushed again and their marketing strategy for Legion will fail.


MY BEST ADVICE: This is not the first game that most of you (community) have dumped coutless hours into before moving on to your next gaming interest.

I've played almost every call of duty and from game to game you lose all your ranking and gun progressions. The sooner you can treat your money losses on this game as an "entertainment fee" the easier you will move on with your life.

If anything, you helped support what will be the game we always wanted and, for some, will never have.



From previous post 3 days ago:
"I could see from a marketing standpoint that it (Legion) will be stand alone from Dust, meaning a fresh start from scratch.

Dust 514 I feel was an experiment to hype the EVE universe which is their main source of income.
In turn, did not turn up the best way possible and had only like a 1% retention of players whom created accounts.


Most FPS vets don't want to come in at a HUGE disadvantage (SP) when their normal routine for a FPS is to excel from the start.


So in the effort of having much greater population:

Would you play and level a merc ALL OVER AGIAN if by then the game was worked on and made better?"