Occasional status report would be nice but at the scale of the project's primordial, and shifting soup as similarly what all projects; big time events are not the place for projects yet to be greenlit.

Still CCP should be putting forward the effort to communicate.

As a grown man who does software development for a living I am blown away at how many self entitled whiners there are in the DUST community.

I've spent about $150 on this game and I have no regrets. I have no regrets because it's a game I play almost every day and I've derived hundreds if not thousands of hours of enjoyment from it.

CCP owes me nothing. I won't pout and whine and insist that CCP tell me what they are doing when the reality is that I didn't even pay enough money to cover one days wages for a developer.

Unless you commission the work and pay for the whole project, then CCP owes you nothing.

All you freeloaders who play this game everyday while refusing to pay because you "don't approve of the direction CCP is taking" are basically parasites.

For those few who invested significant amounts of money, I can understand that you are disappointed and I want to thank you for supporting the game, but those are the breaks and you should of understood that nothing is owed to you.

How? Google marketing

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.

Google Marketing Disasters. Oh wait we dont have to look far we already know one!

That said, with the NDA, I have a privileged awareness of some matters ahead of the playerbase.

I've purchased ALL the new BPO, including the nova knifes which I've never used in the game ever and I feel no sense of conflict in encouraging others to do so as well.

Read into that what you will but I'm a happy dust player and I don't see that changing anytime soon. o7

What doesn't live cannot die.

I think it will be next to impossible for any person that's ever been under Dust's spell to NOT get a PC to play Legion.

I found this intriguing. You had my curiosity, now you have my attention...

We know that all the dropsuits in Legion will work as BPOs. Are you trying to imply that the BPOs on sale now will transfer to Legion, and that having these BPOs will give players an advantage or benefit in Legion somehow?

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.

You do realize that CCP has said that no decision has been made about greenlighting a project that is still very much in Alpha stages, right? It's only been 5 months - games take much longer than that to get to a point where it is ready to be greenlit (not a year like you say).

As a grown man who does software development for a living I am blown away at how many self entitled whiners there are in the DUST community.

I've spent about $150 on this game and I have no regrets. I have no regrets because it's a game I play almost every day and I've derived hundreds if not thousands of hours of enjoyment from it.

CCP owes me nothing. I won't pout and whine and insist that CCP tell me what they are doing when the reality is that I didn't even pay enough money to cover one days wages for a developer.

Unless you commission the work and pay for the whole project, then CCP owes you nothing.

All you freeloaders who play this game everyday while refusing to pay because you "don't approve of the direction CCP is taking" are basically parasites.

For those few who invested significant amounts of money, I can understand that you are disappointed and I want to thank you for supporting the game, but those are the breaks and you should of understood that nothing is owed to you.

All legion needs is money, time, and lots of advertisement.

I am fully convinced that if the core mechanics are fixed, Legion will be even better than Destiny

Dust and Destiny = DIFFERENT GAMES

Not that different.

GǪ we will no longer be able to trust anything that CCP says beyond the shadow of a doubt. Also, CCP will prove they are the sad also ran of a game company they have fought so hard to dispel.

Go ahead CCP, make a slick video for fanfest about what you'd like to do instead of what you actually have been able to do.


Lol.

Personally, my money is on Legion being scrapped, its assets being deleted (no more RAM on that PS3, sorry) and then all future efforts directed towards Eve and Valkyrie until the latter is scrapped too.

Plot twist. Fanfest 2015 is going to be them saying they're stopping development for Project Legion to start up Project Apocrypha, the Xbox One exclusive.

And it'll be a turn-based card game.

The shift in course started in November when CCP Rouge signed on and Project Legion's development started. Do try to know what you're talking about before you stand at the podium, please.



You misunderstand the entire point of this thread: We get it, you're defending CCP to the death and using the same rhetoric (herp derp CCP doesn't owe you self-entitled whiners anything). So, allow me to demonstrate in words you can understand:

If they don't show something worth paying for.... We don't pay. If we don't pay.... They're out of a job. If they're out of a job.... There isn't anything to show anyway. It's sound and logical reasoning on the consumers' part.

Who has more to lose here?

If you play this game regularly, you obviously feel it has value. If you play regularly and refuse to pay, then you are a freeloader and basically a parasite.

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.