This complete lack of communication from CCP regarding Project Legion sends a very disturbing message.

Half of the active threads here are on this subject, and still none of the devs responded even with a simple "I'm still here". At first, this could have been explained by vacation period, but as more and more time passes by one can't help but wonder... What the heck is happening with Legion CCP?

Since I suspect that devs aren't playing this "silenzio stampa" game on their own volition, the most likely explanation is that they were told by the management to keep quiet. But why is it so? Considering everything that's been happening with DUST and CCP recently, I'm afraid that the answer to this question is more likely bad than good.

However, whatever may be the cause of this silence, it is still an insult to the loyal fans of this game (since I suspect they are the only ones who still linger here).

I wasn't expecting hype nor (empty) promises. On the contrary. But you certainly remember what Legion forums looked like soon after Legion was announced. Devs were posting left and right, clarifying things, presenting ideas, requesting community feedback etc. Now, that looked to me like progress, and definite evidence that Legion is under development.

However, this is not what we're seeing now. Legion forums are dead as far as devs are concerned. Of course, it is possible that Legion is currently in the stage of development where community feedback is not required, therefore devs are quiet. I certainly hope so. However, this still doesn't explain the fact that nobody form CCP is posting anything about Legion. Not even a "we're working on Legion, when we have something, we'll let you know". Even that would suffice.
That type of silence is the silence I find disturbing.

Got to agree if i was ccp i would ditch legion and instead focuse on my money maker but i would least tell my communty whats up. Ccp is a dino these days i dont think they ha e whst it take anymore, elitle and star cit are also going to start eatting into there once safe marker

Riley they said that about dust for like 6 months, IWS even told me new guns and maps where coming, and just said wait till fanfest and then we all know how that went.

i dont trust the word a CPM says as CCP could just bullshit to them, as well the CPM are just focuse testers they dont no anymore than we do, until i here offical news source the CPM are just white noise.

tbh iv seen no signs CCP has learned any lessons yet more people have quit (cant find the site that shows the company reviews but its been posted a few times) tbh i think CCP is in denial that they can somehow save the company by doing the same thing under the false idea they just made a bad choice with WoD and that its the PS3 fault dust didnt work.

rather than it been a management fuckup for both games failing. have we acuttaly seen any indication CCP is ontop of things all we have is on video and few token posts iv not acutely seen anything that could count as progress

This is the new CCP, don;t talk about **** till its set in stone. I rather like it. In the past it bit them in the ass. Hell look at the rouge wedding, that was pulled off so crappily because they were trying to keep dust and legion migration hushed as they did not wan tto hype it, and then they gave no info on dust future. They messed up there, so i think they are taking a 'not say anything till its ready to be seen and set in stone' stance to prevent people having fits if, say, they go 'in legion you will invade eve space stations' then when they cut it later as a soon(tm) item people can;t **** and moan about it.

And if legion is quitely killed, no one can **** and moan about that either.

No, not nessicarily. You forget, EVE subs is what is paying for Dust/Legion. If CCP announced closing of legion and dust with full focus 100% on eve forever, you would see the eve forusm explode with cheers.

Legion, to an EVE player is nothing, if it died they won;t care and CCP will go on fine without it. Don;t fool youself into thinking that legion will make or break ccp, cause it wouldn't.

However, it would greatly damage there rep and there finances.

But i highly, hightly doubt at this phase legion is dead. As i said a few times, Valk forums on eve or nearly dead with just very little trickle of info. Nothing new has been posted there since fan fest, no new info, no new anything. Legion forums here got more info then valk did. The only difference is, you can try valk because ccp wants to hype it up and its awesome. But as said, no news is not really bad or good. It just means they are working. I would rather they keep tight lips, and not spill something that has to be cut and disapoint, or over hype, then say stuff that either fails to deliver or gets changed. We will see in just over a month at vegas if we get new info. then there s still eve down under and fan fest.

Thats because you'll be fired.

The biggest thing in 1.9 is the new maps, but those maps were pulled from a previous patch at the last minute because they were not quite done, then shelved when they shifted to working on Legion, so they must have been almost done. Taking them off the shelf and finishing them off would not have taken an immense amount of Dev time, and is a lot of bang for the buck.

Which is to say, most of the Dev time is still focused on Legion, but DUST may be able to borrow some Dev time if it continues to do well and there is something that is worth doing.