Aeon Amadi wrote:Been something I've been badgering the guys on Skype about. While I love the idea of Legion, it kind of angers me that we're pouring so much effort into a game that would be Dust 514 as it was intended (let alone without being green lit) and abandoning the game that is actually pulling revenue, at least as far as active development goes.
Considering the sheer lack of communication and status updates about Legion, I'm starting to get the impression that it didn't get green lit/is still up in the air... Which, I can't help but wonder what you do with an entire development team that went off to make a game without 100% authorization from the higher ups.
Do they drop Legion all together and essentially have wasted an entire year of development to come back to Dust 514?
Do they take the White Wolf - World of Darkness route and just fade away..?
Inquiring minds need to know where all the money is going from these BPOs that are suddenly being sold.
Aeon, bro, first let me say that it is good to see you around again and reiterate my offer to start catching some squads
Second let me ask you this
Why So Serious?While explicit details are beyond the scope of what is allowed by the NDA in this context I can say this much
When I was elected CPM I had no intention of spending another dime in Dust 514. However as recently as this month I purchased the largest AUR pack with no trepidation.Make of that what you will, but you've known me for awhile man and while nothing in gaming - or life - is ever secure or certain not
really I'd like to think you know by now that I do not make my choices without consideration and reason.
Will my reasons always match everyone elses? Of course not because
no one can legitimately claim that is true, but here is something that
is true due to my interactions with the CCP Dust team I went from casual play status back to capping out at least one character every week. Could something still go wrong? Sure, something could
always still go wrong this is life so I am not pretending otherwise but I can simply and bluntly say that this is the most confidence I have had in the Dust team since sometime in closed beta.
Here is something else that is true, the more support - and yes of course this includes spending money on the game - that Dust gets the better the chances of a positive outcome. The less support - which also includes active players and constructive actionable feedback - the game gets the lower the chances of a positive outcome.
I realize that is pretty much basic reasoning, but it is also - simply put - the heart of the matter.
In the end, everyone makes their own choices based on what they want to see happen.
0.02 ISK
Cross
EDIT: PS ~ I still strongly believe in communication between CCP and the Community and heartily support the notion of there being more information supplied with regards to development generally and Legion specifically.
That being said I also give credit where it is due, Logibro and Rattati have made substantial strides in community interaction/involvement in the hotfix process and IMO we as players (especially those of us who've been around long enough to contract 'bitter vet' syndrome) should not let the past mistakes of others overshadow the current accomplishments of the guys working Dust development now.