So while I completely respect your post. Dust players are not forced to spend money at all. You guys chose to do that. You have access to all the same content but just didnt want to wait for it. I say this as an early Beta Dust player to now. Eve players have been going thru this for a decade so the cries for help tend to fall on tone deaf ears. Any money spent on a free to play game should be considered disposable income. Something you could live without. If you are purchasing with any other frame of mind you are deluding yourself. If EVE 2 ever came out I would fully expect to start with nothing. I would have to decide if it was worth it to me. What new features are coming? Do I own the platform? Is it worth buying it I don't. CCP is a game Developer not your parents. Their business staying afloat is always going to be a priority over gamers feelings. Enjoy Dust for what it is now or don't play it.All of you guys have put time and effort into a game that was a shell of what it was promised to be. Do you consider that wasted? If so why did you continue to play instead of waiting for the game to evolve into what you wanted it to be. The drop in a bucket amount of revenue that players put into Dust is nothing compared to what actual shareholders and investors put into it. CCP will always look out for that group of people first because it allows them to eat and have homes.

Dust is just a game. You had fun playing it. Unless you prepaid for features that were never developed you are just along for the ride like the rest of us in Eve's Universe. The sandbox just got shook. Are you gonna dust yourself off and put on your bigboy pants or pull the plug on your clones and fade into debris? Keep playing Dust and give feedback on shaping the next game or rage about it and quit. Its your time and money use it better than this.

We bought the Aurum/Packs under the impression that we will be playing this game for longer than two years.

Had I known that my boosters were pointless I would have never bought a single aurum pack.

The conditions under which many people spent money were either misrepresented, or changed without our knowledge.

If you are paying for something you think will be around for years to come on a console, and you find out otherwise AFTER already having spent the money, you would be rightfully upset.

People are not getting what they thought they were paying for (a game with a commitment to a playstation console). Stop trying to defend people who argue there is no reason to be angry. There are legitimate reasons for people to be upset.

not an assumption when the company tells you that they are going to be around with said game. Are you new here?

I buy a donut expecting a donut. I expect the donut to be relatively fresh, and have the basic characteristics of a donut (sugary, doughy etc).

If I am buying a donut, and have been told it is a donut, and am handed a bagel, then I have right to be upset.

CCP stated they were laser focus on the PS3. Many people spent time and bought boosters because they believed they would be able to leverage those skill points in the future on the PS3, and logically the PS4.

Likewise, people spent time on the game believing their was a commitment to the game, directly because of CCPs past statements.

I am wondering if the parts of your brain that can empathize with others is working correctly, or if you are just a troll.

People spent time and money on a game CCP had said was committed to the PS3.

They got a game that, just months after release, was secretly moving to the PC and weren't told about the facts for months.

Those two things are contradictory. They are not the same. No amount of wordsmithing can make them the same.

CCP made a commitment.

People spent money based on that commitment.

CCP reneged on that comittment.

End of story.

So while I completely respect your post. Dust players are not forced to spend money at all. You guys chose to do that. You have access to all the same content but just didnt want to wait for it. I say this as an early Beta Dust player to now.

Also, buying Aur in my mind was not securing the future of the game, but I was pretty sure the money was spent wisely on Dust514. You know, it's like buying your gas at the same store time and time again. You give them your business so that they have an income to try an stay afloat.

Does that even register in what little brain you have?

Did you buy Defiance with the promise that it would be around for 10 years? Were you told by the developers that they were laser focused on bringing Defiance to the PS3 as a full game? you understand?

What is it about that quote that you found interesting?

Thank you for doing so, the sheer volume of BS being peddled by the butt hurt is just amazing, this subject stands out at the front of the load they are spewing, dust wasn't funded by some crowd sourcing initiative and I doubt its even made a profit from all these "donations" that ppl have handed out, I'm sure someone could estimate the costs involved in dusts staff, assets and bills, our aur purchases probably don't even put a dent in it.

I believe you started the "little shots". I said exactly what I was thinking and you asked if lived life and did my mom and dad pay my bills? Let me guess, that is not taking a shot?

No, gas is not a necessity. Don't believe me? Ask someone who doesn't have a car.

My analogy is spot on. It's not about WHAT they are providing, it is that they ARE providing.

My responses are pretty much cookie cutter at this point. It is the same thing in every thread. My opinion has not changed nor has what it would take for me to play Legion.

I was entertained, no doubt. I spent money that I could still be entertained with years down the road. How can an adult not understand that? I've not even said I was unhappy with the direction of the game. You have to be trolling at this point to not understand.

Because "we're laser focused on ps3", "we'll set dust514 core first, then we'll move it to ps4" things.

It's our fault if we invested in a dream? probably yes. If Dust514 was going to be totally scrapped I would even understand that **** happens. But that's not what's happening. They are coming out with 2 more titles. One of them is even multi platform. What's the point in betraying console community? It's just going to create bad advertisement.

You can essentially say it is the fault of any victim of a con artist for being foolish enough to be conned. I accept my part of the blame for spending money on Dust 514 because I bought in on CCPs vision and wanted to support that (plus I liked BPO stuff). However, just because the victim shares some of the blame for gullibility it doesn't make the con artist (in this case CCP) any less guilty or any less of a scumbag. And most importantly once one discovers they have been conned, they are extra stupid if they let the same person con them again especially with the same con.

That is how I feel about this situation, I haven't called Sony asking for refunds, I just realize I got taken by CCP and I'm not going to allow them to do it again. I am also going to let other gamers here or in other gaming forums know I feel CCP are con men, why I feel they are, and try to dissuade them for falling for the same thing.

Great, some quote from... some dude? I assume an EVE player who's never played this game. Or you could be quoting yourself for props? Whatever.

Hey, they sold this game as an MMO, and since they were a developer of a long-running, successful MMO, we expected we had some right to our accounts and our progress, so long as it didn't lose massive amounts of money, and that there would be advance notice so that people wouldn't invest further into something that was being killed off. Sure, lots of garbage MMO's will be cancelled by devs with no compensation to the players, but then these same devs make another game and you tell us it will be different this time so everybody climb aboard? And we're being unreasonable? Marvelous.

That is the bare minimum I expected: advance notice that development would stop, so we would know that further progression would be pointless because the game would die soon after. I don't think that's an unreasonable to expect that from them while they are trying to sell me ANOTHER IDENTICAL MMO, but they decided to milk us for most of a year instead. Man I find it just shocking that these actions don't give the players here more pause.

I really hope you don't have much attachment to your characters, because if CCP decides that they will sell to more people by axing all of your progress, they will do it, and they will lie to your face as they do it. They have proven that.

I think this is just stage one, mark my words. They will use vets to hype Legion, then they will nerf your characters so that new players are more favoured, and after all the arguments you all have been making against us "haters", you will have no choice but to whine and cry and be hypocrites, or shut your mouth and take another load of their bullcrap excuses. How can you believe they won't do it to you? They did it to us, and there are more of us than you.