Hi everyone,

Thank you for all of your feedback so far. I'd like to answer a few of your questions about DUST 514 and Project Legion directly given the feedback you gave me. I've picked these four points as they are coming up the most on the forums as well as in the live roundtable discussions here at Fanfest.

1) What happens to my character, skills and stuff?

If Project Legion becomes something more than a prototype, we will not leave our DUST 514 players behind. You would be able to bring your character name, applicable skills/inventory, and other elements of progression with you. We are still working on the details and we will have more to announce soon.

- would be nice if that happened

2) Are you completely abandoning DUST dev?

No. Without promising too much, we are actively working on stuff like balancing, Planetary Conquest, matchmaking, the in-game economy, and more. And of course we continue to work with the CPM to identify ways to improve the game.

- CPM clearly doesn't represent us or our interestGǪ We'd rather interact directly in a thread like this and please keep CPM away from usGǪ

3) Is Project Legion going to have a PS4 version? Or something for consoles?

It is still far too early to discuss platform expansion, as like you saw we are still only working on the PC prototype at this time. But the PC architecture gives us the opportunity to grow once we have a great PC product at hand. For now, though, PlayStation 4 is not something we are working on.

- this is the important bitGǪ After almost two years and thousands of hours of gameplay, i don't think any one of us dedicated players would want to wait another year or two to get this game on PC

It is not about the Money, it's just that we are not PC gamers, so we do not wanna continue in a game only for it to go to PC

Thank you for the clarification thoughGǪ

Not much...

The problems with DUST aren't inherently because the PS3 can't handle what CCP wanted to make. The problem is that CCP's programmers haven't been able to do what other developers can with the same system.

Part of me hopes these are true answers.

The other part of me wonders if that 'SP/items/char' transfer thing is just a way to hold a new carrot in front of peoples faces so they continue to buy items in DUST.

Fool me once...

140+ replies, 3 and a half hours later...do you intend on responding?

I heard differently from some of my buddies who have talked to CCP from the start, and while I have seen plenty of mistakes from them I trust their effort is an honest one, they are not the types who give up easily. They like a challenge and are rather passionate about their vision. To me thats a hallmarks of DEV's who do not just give up a project because they lack skill...

But well, you sound like an experienced programmer who knows his stuff and there is not much I can say to that.

OUTSOURCED

This is a fairly toxic but close community that have followed and supported your vision and also arranged DUST related charity events and have stepped up to get each others backs during real-life crisis.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all of your feedback so far. I'd like to answer a few of your questions about DUST 514 and Project Legion directly given the feedback you gave me. I've picked these four points as they are coming up the most on the forums as well as in the live roundtable discussions here at Fanfest.

1) What happens to my character, skills and stuff?

If Project Legion becomes something more than a prototype, we will not leave our DUST 514 players behind. You would be able to bring your character name, applicable skills/inventory, and other elements of progression with you. We are still working on the details and we will have more to announce soon.

(applicable skills/inventory? umm...how about all of our earned sp/isk and bpos or the equivalence on legion. No way did I put up with all those horrible ******* builds , bugs, glitches, poor matching-making, and this list is the never ending story.. to have to start from scratch and suffer again.)

2) Are you completely abandoning DUST dev?

No. Without promising too much, we are actively working on stuff like balancing, Planetary Conquest, matchmaking, the in-game economy, and more. And of course we continue to work with the CPM to identify ways to improve the game.

(soonTM)

3) Is Project Legion going to have a PS4 version? Or something for consoles?

It is still far too early to discuss platform expansion, as like you saw we are still only working on the PC prototype at this time. But the PC architecture gives us the opportunity to grow once we have a great PC product at hand. For now, though, PlayStation 4 is not something we are working on.

(moving it to ps4 early would be a mistake, as you said it should developed further, tested, and re-tested again, before people have to subscribe to psn to play. But of course you know nothing about testing new code before implementing it.)

4) When are you going to give us more concrete information on Legion?

Again, Project Legion is still in an early stage of development but the whole idea behind giving a sneak peek at Fanfest is to get early feedback - and I really want to keep this discussion going, show you progress through dev blogs and such and listen to what you have to say.

(You will not get another dollar of mine)

Please post your feedback and questions in this thread - and let's keep this conversation going. The team and I will be reading this thread, and I will respond as soon as I can.


CCP Rouge

For the most part, I like you post, its constructive. But have you though about the fact that hindsight is always 20/20?
I mean once CCP decided to change direction I don't think there was ever any possibility of doing it without a considerable uproar no matter what they did, precisely because this community is so toxic..

And the idea of reimbursing for the fanfest trip? I mean if you are going to travel all the way to Iceland you better have more then a keynote or two as your main attraction. One usually goes for such gatherings for social interaction and preferably with a bunch of good friends.

Please do NOT let the rage deter you from making Legion.

Legion is a GOOD idea. You just failed spectacularly at ANNOUNCING that idea, that's all. Please, for the Love of New Eden, do NOT let this project die before it even gets off the ground.

LONG LIVE LEGION!

So you're abandoning major development of Dust in favor of a project that may not even come to fruition!?

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all of your feedback so far. I'd like to answer a few of your questions about DUST 514 and Project Legion directly given the feedback you gave me. I've picked these four points as they are coming up the most on the forums as well as in the live roundtable discussions here at Fanfest.

1) What happens to my character, skills and stuff?

If Project Legion becomes something more than a prototype, we will not leave our DUST 514 players behind. You would be able to bring your character name, applicable skills/inventory, and other elements of progression with you. We are still working on the details and we will have more to announce soon.

ALL LEARNING SKILLS WILL DISAPPEAR

We're not kidding. In your head, in your hangar or in your anything else, they're gone. Vamoosh. Deleted. Sent to the big recycle bin in the sky. Etc etc.

All skillpoints invested in learning skills will be reimbursed, including all the fiddly corner cases. If you have 2,012,692 SP in learning, you will find yourself down those skills, but with 2,012,692 skillpoints to redistribute.

2) Are you completely abandoning DUST dev?

No. Without promising too much, we are actively working on stuff like balancing, Planetary Conquest, matchmaking, the in-game economy, and more. And of course we continue to work with the CPM to identify ways to improve the game.

3) Is Project Legion going to have a PS4 version? Or something for consoles?

It is still far too early to discuss platform expansion, as like you saw we are still only working on the PC prototype at this time. But the PC architecture gives us the opportunity to grow once we have a great PC product at hand. For now, though, PlayStation 4 is not something we are working on.

4) When are you going to give us more concrete information on Legion?

Again, Project Legion is still in an early stage of development but the whole idea behind giving a sneak peek at Fanfest is to get early feedback - and I really want to keep this discussion going, show you progress through dev blogs and such and listen to what you have to say.

Please post your feedback and questions in this thread - and let's keep this conversation going. The team and I will be reading this thread, and I will respond as soon as I can.

CCP Rouge

For the most part, I like you post, its constructive. But have you thought about the fact that hindsight is always 20/20?
I mean once CCP decided to change direction I don't think there was ever any possibility of doing it without a considerable uproar no matter what they did or said, precisely because this community is so toxic. Don't get me wrong, the toxic atmosphere its not only player's fault. I mean that up to this point both sides had a difficult road full of disappointments, but especially the players seem too burned out to try for a more constructive or at least civil tone.

From what i have seen on fanfest EVE LEGION is way more than a protoype, the game is in a much better shape than dust is right now, the skill progression is much more consistent, game play is better, item balancing is better. So basicly, if you call Legion a prototype what dust is??

Please, DONT HOLD LEGION FOR AGES, release as soon as possible, not as a beta, as a full game, even if it only have one map!! we cannot give you feedback if we do not play it! Launch it as soon as possible PLEASE!