Let me start by saying that splitting the dev team in two 50/50, as others have mentioned before, is a very poor decision if you really wish Legion to work. I'm not saying this because I wish Legion to succeed or for Dust to go away. I'm saying this because if you really plan to make the best of the situation you currently find yourself in you need all of your talent focused solely on what Dust was supposed to be (a true living, breathing, persistent MMO/FPS within the New Eden universe).

If you wish to keep the servers going for die-hards who wish to continue to build their characters up for Legion, have a handful of people work on hotfixes and balancing issues. It will cut the schedule for fixes drastically, but it will also help Legion not suffer from the same things that has killed Dust. And obviously the less time you spend getting Legion running, the sooner it can earn money for you. (because to be fully honest, I really don't see much AUR revenue coming your way from Dust after the announcement)

As much as it pains me to say... one way or another, Dust will not be around for much longer since it already has an all-but guaranteed successor in the works. Whether it's replaced by Legion first or it just slowly dies out while Legion is being developed, it's days are numbered. So spending half of your talent on it makes very little sense. It really would be best to keep a skeleton crew on it and get Legion going asap. You don't want to risk people loosing interest.

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Next let me talk about the ps4. I don't claim to know a lot about how to develop things on different systems and therefore it's not my place to say you should or shouldn't develop simultaneously on the ps4 and PC. However, the moment you do know whether or not you plan to put it on the ps4 you would do well to announce it. There will be people waiting with bated breath until that detail is confirmed one way or the other. Don't leave what's left of your console-only fanbase hanging with no idea of what to expect. If it's not coming our way, we need to know we should move on with our lives. If it is, that gives us reason to keep our eyes on it's development to see how it's going and it let's us know to keep an eye out for the release date.

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Lastly, I hope you put a LOT of thought into how you give credit to those who follow you to Legion. As you know, many of those who have been here for 2+ years are seriously injured. They should be seriously commended for having not just followed you through the last 2 years of testing, retesting, new builds, SP resets, stat changes, etc, but following you to a whole new PLATFORM. Please, take extra special care of all of the vets, but pay REALLY close attention to those who have been here the longest. Perhaps tier it by the number of months their PSN account has had a character in Dust, for instance maybe a tier for every 6 months spent with a Dust 514 toon.




That is all I have to say. Good day.