To everyone who is angry about Legion, please take one moment to read this...

DUST 514 is sadly over, and the only chance of a New Eden MMOFPS is in CCP CEO Hilmar's hands on if he green lights Legion or not. DUST is dead regardless, and I know this sounds crazy, but here is why:

A team of 20 developers (at 50k salary each, which is low) is roughly 1 million USD a year. Tack on the UDK3 license fee (25% of earnings after 50k revenue) and server costs and you're looking at $100,000 USD a month easy in costs, and its probably much more. With 5000 active players they would need every single one to spend $20 a month minimum to maybe break even. After taxes, they're still in the red. CCP won't discuss it's finances: DUST is a flop, or at least isn't a good investment.

Which leads us to Valkyrie. DUST was originally green lit years ago to be a way to expand the New Eden IP into a new genre. CCP felt that a MMOFPS was the best. But then DUST wasn't as successful as expected and is losing them money every month. And then suddenly, they lay a golden egg named Valkyrie which has EVERYONE excited and is poised to be a cash cow. There is their New Eden IP. Why wouldn't they cut funding to DUST and pour all that money into Valkyrie? That's the smart investment. There's limited competition, CCP knows spaceships, its NOT a shooter, it's won more awards in Alpha than DUST did ever, and it already has a following 100x larger than DUST. Cutting DUST to further fund Valkyrie is the smart decision.

Which leads us to "Project Legion". I am a contractor in software development. I've worked on many multi-million dollar projects in Oil / Gas and I know a hail mary when I see one. CCP Rouge was probably hired, told "Make DUST profitable in X months" and responded with "impossible, this game needs to be completely rewritten for the PC" and was told by Hilmar that he has until Fanfest to produce a "proof of concept" to pitch the rewrite or the funding goes to Valkyrie. Why else would they show Legion without Hilamr having green lit it? Because it's a hail mary. So Legion is CCP Rouge's answer to the sad state of DUST. "You can't fix an airplane while it's in flight" is a programming adage. And it's true.

So, the grim news is that DUST is probably getting cancelled and Legion is the only hope we have of a New Eden based MMOFPS. What does that mean for you? As much as it sucks to lose the $40 or $200 or $5000 dollars you've put into DUST it's going to suck more for the CCP developers who lose their jobs when DUST is canceled. Their only hope is Legion, hence all the "Tweet Hilmar and tell him to green light Legion" blue posts.

So don't be a deuce and cost real people their jobs because of poor scoping decisions by upper management. Suck it up, the money is gone anyhow, and consider it an investment towards a better New Eden based shooter. If your an exclusive console player who loathes PC then mark it down as a charitable donation on your 2015 tax return.

DUST is dead. Hopefully Legion is given a chance (or all the money is sent to Valkyrie because that game looks f***ing awesome).