Hi everyone. Me again.

Why PC first? For a few different reasons... It's a scalable platform. We can go high spec for the most demanding players in terms of Gfx, but we can also scale down to low/mid spec to get critical mass. It's also a good platform for the early stage of a project like ours. You can test and balance the game and the economy quite easily with fast turn-arounds. We can set people up in testing environments easily (eg. ISD in EVE). If you've seen the "CCP Presents" presentation on Saturday at Fanfest, there was a talk about CCP refocusing on its core tech competency, which is PC. It allows in the future the creation of a "universe" of products on the same platform. Again, this doesn't mean that we're not going back to console at one point but we need to focus on one thing at a time and deliver an awesome game, then things get easier.

Now I'd like to address (or repeat) something important for me. I know that a lot of you have been really disappointed and wanted to see much more on the future of DUST 514 in its current form and I absolutely understand that feeling. But the reality is that, while it's a great shooter, I repeat that it's not the base that can give us another EVE Online with 10+ years of epic battles where players can have a great experience whether solo, as the head of the deadliest squad or largest corp in the game. Give people the right tools to manage/achieve all that. A much clearer user experience that opens up that huge universe, always discover new stuff to shoot, to loot, to sell... A social experience where corps can advertise/recruit easily, where you see the main chat going crazy with people asking for groups, selling stuff, talking ****. Some of the stuff that makes me feel like I am in an MMO. All of these aren't tweaks, they are features forming a new eco-system for the game, a foundation you can then build on. No doubt that DUST 514 is a large piece of that foundation. We've accomplished so much and I've had a ton of fun every day since beta but it is not there yet. It requires a lot of work of course but also a different approach in how we design and execute on that vision. I can go on and on about how I see this evolve but we'll cover in more depth as we start sharing ideas and designs through dev blogs and such.

I want to address the concerns about character migration from DUST 514 to Project Legion if it goes ahead. There has been some concern about what I meant by GÇ£applicableGÇ¥. We are looking to migrate everything we can about characters from DUST 514, including names, corporation membership, skill points, assets and ISK. We have not yet decided how this would translate to the new items and progression system in Legion, but we want to make sure that the time and effort you committed in DUST 514 is carried over to Project Legion.

Inb4 & after console kids tell you how much CCP screwed them and that it's all lies

I really couldn't care one iota less about anything CCP says. They have nothing that interests me.

Apart from a convenient forum to whine in?

TIL nobody uses the 'dev posts' button.

I grant this service approval

Also dev posts button gets broke easily when logibro spams like I do.

Ah forgot that, definitely good to highlight as well. I just figure more people need to see this, just in case they haven't been following the stickied thread

I really couldn't care one iota less about anything CCP says. They have nothing that interests me.

CCP said bla bla bla

TRANSLATION:
We ran out of PS3 "customers" to offer our "game items" to.

It's hard for me to imagine the marketing people that ignored the CPM's repeated warnings keeping their jobs. If I were CCP Rouge I'd probably push for their removal. They made that dude look like a fool.

TIL nobody uses the 'dev posts' button.

Great collection of relevant articles, thanks DUST Fiend.

One thing I'd like to add, as a quasi translation to one of the original dev posts..

I think their overall views could be rephrased as follows

"[We had high hopes for DUST on PS3. but it never gathered the huge crowds we were looking for. So, as a large playerbase puller, it must be branded a failed product. We still want to get the (massive, on-the-ground) integration with EVE into a game. However, to have a chance at doing that, we need to launch a 'new' product, to get public eyeballs and attention.

In both our best marketing research background, and also in what we have the best tech skills available to us currently, that means we need to do that product on the PC platform.

We'd really like if if all you current DUSTies come join us for our new, and we hope even more exciting product, so we'll do our best to make it as painless for you as possible, by doing account transfers.]"

Personally, I think that is a fairly reasonable attitude for them to take.

Also from CCP Rouge:

good post
he is right, I just hope Legion ends up better than dust did