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Captain Crutches
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Posted - 2014.05.03 04:19:00 - [1] - Quote

From a technical standpoint, I fully agree with CCP's decision to shift over to PC. PS3 could never hold up to what Dust would have required of it, and really any console they decide to put it on would eventually become outdated. PC avoids that problem while also allowing CCP to push updates at will, run test servers, and use all sorts of tools and metrics they otherwise wouldn't be able to use. This is awesome to hear and I look forward to seeing the results.

From a gaming standpoint, as an almost exclusively PC gamer (except Dust) I'm completely stoked for Legion and will definitely play it even if they don't transfer characters. If necessary I'll biomass this toon so I can use my same name there. Legion as a game shows great promise, much more than Dust does right now, and it looks like it will be fun to play and provide much more interesting content while creating a stronger link to the Eve universe.

From a PR standpoint, CCP really could not have handled this more poorly. Their Dust keynote was a 20-minute tech demo of a pre-alpha game with no timeframe put forward, and zero news of future updates to Dust... And they didn't expect a community uproar? They could at least have spent some time coming up with an FAQ. Surely the CPM knew about this, did they not anticipate what we would ask? I would have preferred that CCP keep quiet about Legion for a few more months until they could release more information and keep satisfying us with improving Dust in the interim. It seems to me like they were rushing to get this news out for Fanfest, and weren't willing to wait until potentially next year to make the reveal. And the lack of blue tags in this forum section trying to calm us down is unnerving.

TL;DR - Legion is an excellent idea and the right move for Dust, but the terrible PR with which they announced it and have handled the community reaction basically cancels that out.

Hopefully they'll tell us some more at tomorrow's CCP Presents keynote.

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