Oh no, my virtual assets in a video game may not exist in the future?! What will I ever do with my life?!

Not all of us play video games so we can jerk off to the number next to "ISK" or "KDR". Some of us just like to have fun playing a video game and spending time with others who like to do so as well. I'm excited for Legion on PC and could care less if my stats or ISK or whatever are transferred over.

Yeah, it'd be nice to keep my investments, and CCP has clearly stated they intend to carry over our progress, so I see no reason to be up in arms about anything. Literally the only concern I had was cleared up in less than a day, so I see no reason how we're getting screwed. In fact, we're getting everything we've been hoping for.

Except that they didn't (yet) and everyone already knew some variation of this was going to happen at some point.

The biggest failure of this unveiling, bar none, was that it made people actually believe that dust will be going somewhere within the next 12-18 months. I feel confident enough to say it won't unless the desastrous PR impact of this mess is enough to scare so many players away that keeping the servers up cannot be justified.

Whether or not that's the case we'll see during the following months. Remember that,on paper, project Legion is not even an actual thing yet.

Edit: Still liking because all those a serious issues that need to be resolved to restore a modicum of consumer trust.

thought the EVE universe was HARD, wouldn't it make it more HARD if the previous players stuff transfers over to a game that is similar to the previous product (thats if it evens becomes a game)?

You don't really think any of that was the reason for Legion, do you?

Let's be honest, DUST 514 on console simply was a failure. When you do what no other company in the world even attempts, you are bound to trip up a few times. EVE also was a pipedream, but one that miraculously succeeded. That doesn't mean all of CCP's projects are going to succeed... I still respect them for at least giving it a shot. I know it's more popular to diss a failure (which unsurprisingly leads to a lot of risk-averse gutless endeavours), but that's not for me.

So all I see is: DUST 514 failed. It's normal to be upset about this, and I completely understand how people feel who had their hopes up for the game, or who wished that CCP had communicated with them more openly. But at the same time I am glad that CCP was able to learn valuable lessons from this failure and that they have a decent shot at getting it right the next time.

I am also glad that CCP is willing to make radical changes if they can see that it's necessary. I would be far more worried if they'd avoid the painful changes only to appease their current playerbase.