843 Epidemic
BurgezzE.T.F
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.05.05 11:33:00 -
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I haven't actually made a thread specifically about this really, but yeah. Here we go.
At first I was like everyone else, I made a lot of rage threads and I was incredibly angry at CCP. And rightly so. This was delivered in an awful manner. With NO content being discussed for Dust in a keynote entitled 'Dust 514'. This news was also released at fanfest. This is not 'good' news. This is inevitable news that we didn't want to be told at fanfest. Would you tell your children there are no presents under the tree on christmas morning? It was a poor decision by whomever it was, and has caused us to lose a large portion of the Dust community already.
To be honest, I think we deserve an apology from Rouge, it just isn't good enough the way this has been handled. However, we are all complaining for one reason or another but the simple truth is that we're complaining because we love this game, right?
Everything we were ever promised (Old EP and co) was never delivered. The mechs, the jets, the sandbox, the PvE, the player market? It was never going to get here. Especially not on PS3. The PS3 as we all know does NOT have the capacity to make the game we want. Dust was dying anyway, the only way to immortalise it was to switch it onto a PC.
Why not announce PS4 release right away? Because it could end up being the same catastrophe as the ps3. CCP could spend so long developing everything it'd take them to the end of the PS4's life to get it right. The PC is a guarantee that the game can keep being developed without the threat of being entombed in a dead console. The game we love can only survive this way.
We were losing more players each day anyway. If it wasn't by CCP's hand, the game would have died anyway, and there would be nothing. At least this is something. For everyone complaining about not being able to handle Legion on their PC? I wholeheartedly sympathise. I myself may not be able to run it, and that's a concern, but it's something we have to grow up and realise. On the plus side, we have a long time before it releases. A long time to save up for a PC, the parts to upgrade, or even a PS4 (And just hope it'll transfer).
TL;DR: A lot of things were done very wrong by CCP in this announcement and I do believe Rouge needs to be a man about it, and stop waffling like an anxious politician. However, the decision to move this to PC was never going to be an easy one. There were always going to be casualties and it's going to be a hard transition. But, life isn't fair, essentially we have to HTFU.
When Dust is ashes, then you will have my permission to Dance.
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