wow, just wow.

this is a tad delayed mate.

In short what Dust was meant to be will be Legion on PC.

Legion is not green lit yet, so it might not ever get to see the light of day. If it does, there is no guarantee that it will ever come back to a console, and what will or will not make the transition from your Dust to Legion accounts is up in the air.

Dust has a limited life span and will see limited improvement going forward.

Basically CCP jumped the gun with the Legion announcement.

The problem was there was Sony exec's in the Audience that here there for the Valkyrie project advancement as Project Morpheus is depending on CCP to deliver a game for their platform.

When CCP mismanaged their words at the conference and keynote speech about DUST and how Legion is their main focus, Sony withdrew their generous discount for PSN updates.

So that's it, it's no longer cheaper for CCP to update everyone's Playstation. So now they have to pay a bit AND go through the whole Sony Q&A process..

This prompted CCP Shanghai to make the announcement that they had no more plans for client side Updates. They will commit to server side Updates that do not require to go through the PSN process.

Which is what we are getting in the Hotfixes.


I HOPE CCP isn't that silly.. Content is money for them in a F2p model.. I Hope they are thinking about some dumbed down Legion maps for DUST(seeing how they are using the same engine) SO we can battle test them now.

Heavy weapon variants.. Again so they can be tested. AND GET PAID NOW FOR IT's DEVELOPMENT. Rattati can balance it later.

And Most we are hoping CCP is actually willing to MARKET their game to new players... By developing a PROPER NPE. and PROPER advertisement rather then a banner add here or there...

No one knows about this product, and if they do? it's all 3rd person info. which never bodes well.

They never agreed to anything like that...

Pretty much they said the "Mark you left in the sand will carry over to Legion".. Referring to the sandbox.

We don't know if SP, ISK.. much of anything will be transferred to Legion. just a vague promise. Which equates to nothing from CCP.

But let's detach our personal emotions and feelings about our hard earned SP and think from CCP's shoes trying to build and develop a balanced persistent FPS game... How do you transfer players over with 60-80 million skillpoints+ over without causing HUGE MASSIVE issues. Personally I can't think of a way to do it without nerfing them somehow or saying SCREW YOU to everyone joining in to the brand new game.


Next is... Dust 514 is on PS3... A completely unique platform.. No matter if Legion is a success on the PC and get's ported to the PS4... DUST still is a product that is in it's own market, not directly competing with any of their products.

PS3 is being supported by SOny for next 3 years with new titles comming out for each of those years.. there are 90 million playstation 3's in the world.. They just don't get thrown in the garbage..

DUST as a business decision will be on the ps3 for a while... If they market it in Emerging markets that are now accepting the PS3 technology as a more standard entertainment system as it is affordable now(A PS4 in Brazil is 1800 dollars) ... I don't see DUST going anywhere for a year or two.


So what would you do with all the character data on DUST? when legion started... How could you fulfill your promise of keeping the "Marks in the sand" that players have made. Realistically I Don't see them transferring 60m skillpoint+ characters over to Legion. and then trying to make them fit into their new game.

They will give you something.. From DUST.. And probably some other bonuses... because it makes sense as a business to give incentives.. specially digital ones that cost you minimal capital.

Best guess is that the population of players on dust will dwindle due to destiny and about 5/6 other good looking games coming out around September-October, player migration to ps4, etc

then I believe dust will close.

I expect it to carry on til then as player interest and willingness to pay for things will drive it to the last breath.

or to re-phrase... they will milk this cow dry.

ccp is a company and as such a minimal cost with any profit will only stop when it needs to.

How do you know? Where is the SP reward and progression shown for legion? Why assume it will be the same as Dust? Particularly as CCP have already stated and shown a very different skill progression.