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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2014.05.03 02:28:00 -
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I am furious and deeply saddened by these announcements but I hope that I may be able to stay rational and give an explanation to CCP and anyone else who doesn't understand where all of the anger is coming from. I believe that nothing can be understood by simply stating "DUST is dead; **** you CCP"; it needs to be done with clarity but, yes, the message will still be the same.
* A complete lack of respect for your customers.
Regardless of what happens with DUST 514 or Project Legion, the fact that the DUST 514 keynote was 15 minutes late and ran for 23 minutes, 25 seconds and contained nothing about the game that people have so clearly cared about is shockingly disrespectful. The platform to talk about all the changes that were coming to the game we cared so much about was instead used to talk about a completely different project. Imagine how EVE players would feel if the EVE keynote was entirely focused on the EVE boardgames and addressed nothing about the game. It doesn't matter if the reaction is positive or negative: how can you as a company obviously care so little about one of your own games and for the players (customers) of that game? This is frankly disgusting.
* A complete lack of information
The forums are made up of the most avid and loyal of the DUST 514 community. People such as Jadek Menaheim, running a DUST 514 lottery to show that there can be complexity in this, Judge Rhadamanthus who clearly just wanted to instruct the player base, and Cyrius Li-Moody that were putting out high quality game play videos that were showing high level play. What would they see if they were to log into the forums and have absolutely no information about what is going to happen with DUST 514? The new baby Project Legion is here, a separate entity from DUST 514, and the space for our game is being shortened. The DUST 514 progression speech has more statements on Project Legion, even stating "most of this is for Project Legion." What is going to happen to our game? The community is left alone in our own echo chamber trying to hear some actual information about DUST 514.
* Bait and Switch
Project Legion sounds promising: if I had no time, energy, or money invested in DUST 514 I would probably be ecstatic that what CCP was trying to do for years was finally coming to fruition and I, as a player, may be able to try it. The problem is that Project Legion is what DUST 514 has been promised to be for years now. Imagine if Bethesda released something like Skyrim on the PS3 but it only consisted of the town of Riverun (the first town in the game) with all these promises that it was going to be a large, sprawling epic game players began to invest time, energy, and money into the game so that when the game became what it was promised to be they would be ready. However, 'Skyrim' "couldn't match the vision" that the developers wanted so they decided to start a new project on the PC called Elder Scrolls: Online while 'Skyrim' was going to turn into a basic hack and slash.
This is the exact definition of a bait and switch; DUST 514 was promised to be this epic, sprawling game with connection to a massive universe of pirates, espionage, political intrigue where we Mercenaries would fight to shape this universe. We players/customers put time, energy, and money into playing the idea that was DUST 514, staying through the total lack of polish and incompleteness on the promise and hope that it would become what we wanted it to be. That seems to no longer be happening. Instead, everything we put into the idea of DUST 514 has been misplaced in the wrong game on the wrong console that wasn't even released yet and DUST 514 that exists now will simply become a lobby, arcade shooter.
CCP: do you have any respect for this section of the community? This is in shockingly poor taste. It doesn't even matter if DUST 514 will continue to exist as something different than what was originally promised; it isn't what was promised and what was promised is apparently happening on an entirely different game on a completely different gaming machine. After such a total betrayal of our trust and hope, how can you expect any of us to continue to support your products when you just cast us aside when you cannot deliver on what you promised?
-A DUST 514 supporter.
"People that quote themselves in signatures confuse me." -Joseph Ridgeson
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Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
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Posted - 2014.05.03 04:10:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote:Some info that I got from sources: 1: We will be able to transfer our characters over to Legion, including the stats and SP 2: All of our assets will transfer over, including our beloved BPO's. So really, all you need is a decent PC, and you're set. So why are trying to make the game better by getting it off this underpoweredsystem and moving it along to something more suitable to its needs. Oh wait, is it that you don't have a ballin PC like me? 
Please provide links to these points.
I do have a powerful PC. It would run Legion better than my PS3 runs DUST. That isn't the point. It is still a Bait and Switch.
"People that quote themselves in signatures confuse me." -Joseph Ridgeson
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Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.05.03 04:17:00 -
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Sir Snugglz wrote:LMAO, I read calm in the subject and the letter starts with furious. did not read the rest. to be busy cracking up
Just because someone is angry doesn't mean they cannot compose themselves in a calm manner. That is what I did, or at least hoped to.
"People that quote themselves in signatures confuse me." -Joseph Ridgeson
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Joseph Ridgeson
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Posted - 2014.05.03 08:29:00 -
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The funny thing is that so much of this anger and frustration could be completely avoided if they had actually done a DUST keynote and explained why they were doing what they are doing. If Legion had just been "DUST 514 ported to PC; longevity of PS3 version unclear" there would be a lot of anger but it wouldn't be as justified. Would I be sad that DUST 514 was being moved to the PC? A bit but mostly because of the lack of foresight CCP had on whether they should have even tried a PS3 game rather than just going PC. The fact that it is two separate projects is where the anger is.
I am not an idiot. I have been through several of my favorite games just shutting down, games that I have put as much time, energy, and money into. When Earth and Beyond, City of Heroes, Horizons, or Hellgate: London died, it was just not being worked on at all. It was the end of the road, the machine was off, and the engine began to rust. DUST is different. It isn't dead in a "we are turning off the servers because it couldn't work" sense, it is dead in the "we are instead making Project Legion into everything DUST was promised to be while DUST is just going to be an arcade shooter."
This means that everything I spent, be it real money or just emotional investment, into the idea of DUST is wasted because it is not the game we were all expecting it to be. Project Legion seems to be what that game is going to be. What is going to happen? Who the hell knows because CCP has treated the DUST community like mushrooms.
"People that quote themselves in signatures confuse me." -Joseph Ridgeson
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