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Posted - 2014.11.10 07:21:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:
Which begs the question: Is that a subconscious status update? That Legion -is not- a game and Dust 514 is all we have; a dead end that will only continue until the very last die hard fan caps out all of his skills and turns the PS3 off one last time. Who knows? The hilarious irony is that a game company that uses uncertainty in all areas of gameplay as its primary hallmark now has us completely uncertain about part of the franchise's inevitable fate.
I think that answer is "yes" Aeon. I don't think any company, any person, with a good conscious says "we're listening to the fans" and then won't drop a single word on the apparent resource vampire sucking away our franchise's hope at a future.
Frankly, I'd think that CCP has let go quite a substantial number of Shanghai's employees. Right after FanFest, they claimed to be at 60 developers, so y'know 50 at max by this point. Despite some vigorous discussion in this area, my gut feeling is that the amount of resources sunk into 1.9 is about the extent of CCP Shanghai's past exertions on other Uprising 1.X variants. I don't get the impression that the material, no matter how much of it was already half complete, was done by anything less than the majority of their devs.
Altogether? Legion is probably iced, at best in hypersleep. Meanwhile CCP do as much as they can to wring revenue out of Dust, long term be-damned. This isn't a negative, I completely understand the need to make as much money as you can on your product, but as people have mentioned in this thread the changes that have been made really don't help the game's longevity. They'll keep on talking about mid-term and short-term plans for the game, and fulfilling some of them, just to keep the servers alive and to try to recoup some of the game's sunk costs.
Unless CCP tell us otherwise, they're not working on Legion. This silence is just another typical round of betrayal of their fan base by CCP. I would say that it breaks my trust and loyalty, but those have been long spent up on my account. Maybe they'll start working on Legion again when and if Valkyrie releases and replenishes their coffers and their investors' confidence.
Long term roadmap by Aeon Amadi
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