God Hates Lags wrote:There are a lot of other potential reasons why Legion isn't being shown at fanfest. The one that CCP has stated and the CPM has confirmed on these forums is that CCP's biggest title, Valkryie, is going be the star of fanfest 2015. It will be the rift's most talked about game and has the potential to catapult CCP from obscure indie development corp to mainstream AAA studio which would be good not only for Dust and Legion, but for Eve as well. Even Eve will take a backseat to Valkryie come fanfest.
Secondly, while Dust's future is still highly uncertain, just look around you and see that there are three new planned updates for it. Do you really think that's just Rattati programming those three updates solo? Dust is finally profitable now thanks to Respec and APEX suit $$ and you're seeing CCP's priorities shift from a game that could make money a year or two down the road to one that is making money now.
Thirdly, I think you gravely underestimate the time it will take to develop Legion. If CCP wants to release a title that isn't half assed this time they will need to take at least two years to develop it, and it will not be conducive to that strategy to show a half-assed version of the game to fans.
Fourthly, remember the fiasco last time and realize that CCP really doesn't want to have that happen again. If they talk up all the things planned for Legion without mentioning Dust, Dust players will feel shafted. If they talk about their roadmap for Dust, PC players will ask "why are you even still developing a dead game?" and some will doubt that Legion is even coming. It's a no win scenario that will just pit two crowds against each other. Better to stay quiet until there's something major to report.
As I said, it's likely that Legion is being booted off of Fanfest in other to showcase something else (in your example EVE Valkyrie.) This in conjunction with lack or progress or anything to show would explain it's absence. Still, an insight into it's progress feels needed after months of silence.
Odds are we would have just gotten a simple tech demo to showcase the game running and new art assets. Still, we could atleast get some info on Dust updates and Legion alike, so we know that the game replacing Dust is still making progress (even if console players are screwed anyway.)