Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with "PC > console" things or "mommy loves me more" that the two communities (soon to be one) of CCP's products stupidly have for one another. This is entirely about the idea of Legion.

Preface: Legion's announcement is a fiasco. Something this damn big and this damn important and we were told this damn late. Every chance that someone at CCP had to assuage our fear and anger pretty much failed in the most ludicrous ways possible. First, it was pleaded by CPM and CSM to release it before FanFest: nope. The announcement for Legion was so short with no questions because, supposedly, Executive Producer CCP Rouge (the brain behind Legion) thought that the DUST 514/Legion panel was going to be streamed and that he was going to head the discussion. Neither were true. It was thirty hours before two of the Three Big Questions (SP, Items, Character names) were answered in a three minute announcement during the CCP keynote added at the last second. Too late at that point; those that are pissed *waves* are already pissed.

It is incredibly lame for console only players that the game they bought into that was promised to be developed on one system is likely abandoning that system for another and even worse for those that bought a PS3 to play DUST. Don't say "servers get shut down, it happens" because a game abandoning one system and transferring itself, to my knowledge, has never happened before. This isn't City of Heroes shutting down after years of service, Hellgate: London shutting down after two or three months; it is a passenger getting from a cab to another cab and leaving some belongings behind. We are the belongings.

Legion itself: With CCP saying the "we cannot make DUST 514 what we want it to be on the PS3; we need to do it on PC." I believe this to mean that Legion is DUST on the PC. Announcing it as a "separate product" is more of the failure to communicate. Legion is probably a decent, inevitable thing. We have played DUST in the hopes that it would be what CCP promised it would be. Seems that will only happen on the PC. This means that if we want idea of DUST 514, we gotta have Legion.

Bottom line: We need Legion. CCP mucked up bad with DUST but CCP has clearly checked the pulse of DUST. We were playing based entirely on the hope it was alive. Turns out it is dead and the announcement came about by Rouge on a stage in Iceland... with the candlestick. The worst thing that can happen now is Legion gets canceled. That won't resurrect DUST. We are not going to get new players because a single Google search will show "CCP announces they are slowing development in favor of Legion, can't do what they wanted to do with the PS3"; the next search result being "Project Legion canceled" won't do any good.

Basically, your car broke down and stopped being fixed by the mechanic. Now the mechanic rubs their sweaty butt on your face, farts up your nostrils, and goes "use this car." We can't be angry at the car for the way "use this car" was relayed to us. We need this car; let's be angry at the mechanic but not the car. If you want to spite the mechanic and not use the car, that is totally acceptable and depending how the transition process goes I might be in that camp as well. But don't try to blow up the car for people that want to drive it.