A more accurate analogy for the OP's logic would be that you can't drive a car and a motorcycle at the same time. Owning vehicle doesn't require any sort of action or resources. Developing Dust or legion would each require a certain amount of both. Much like actively driving a car or motorcycle.

That said, you can totally eat bacon and eggs at the same time. But all analogies fail at some point.

In regards to Legion "We're still exploring what we want to do with Legion."

In regards to Dust "We're sticking with Dust."

Good lord man, you can't have it both ways.

Just man up, cancel Legion officially. Put those resources back into Dust and give us a port to PS4. Your playerbase will more than double right off the bat, and you'll actually have a platform to do interesting stuff that can handle it. You aren't a Valve FPS and it was never going to work for you guys on PC especially since you never had the police force or methods to adequately combat hackers ruining the game in the first place.

And seriously, your upper management needs to learn to stop chasing trends and focus on your existing products. I'm losing count of how many times this attitude has bit your company in the ass now. This VR garbage is going to cost you millions, mark my words.

Dust is now profitable, apparently.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/20/8263823/playstation-3-exclusive-dust-514-is-now-a-profitable-game-for-ccp

Looks like Hilmar may well be considering it now, though he's not ready to pull the trigger yet. We should be pushing for PS4 development to start and, at the very least, for Rattati to get more resources.

Hackers are a pox to competitive gaming and CCP simply does not have the capability to combat them in an FPS.

Yea because CCP has not been dealing with security in a PC game for roughly 12 years now.

Is that supposed to be sarcasm? Because they haven't been. I once ratted out over a dozen accounts who were actively botting and not a single one of them got a ban. This wasn't a blind accusation either -- I personally knew the people doing it. That's how inefficient they are.

Furthermore, legit hacking in EVE requires changing the data the server is getting. Hacking in an FPS simply requires a secondary program to recognize objects rendered and control where your screen centers. It is ridiculously easy to hack an FPS and that is why every FPS has hacks provided.

Server side stat hacking is a totally different beast.

I think your whole argument of "hackers hack FPS games thus it shouldn't be made for PC" is just ridiculous. Yes, hackers have been an issue since the dawn of gaming, but the majority of competitive FPS games have kept up with security. It's a constant tug-o-war, but hackers are typically less than 1% of the community.

Games like CS:GO, Battlefield, Call of Duty, all have their hackers as well as their ban waves and these serve nothing but to give more profit to these games because hackers will often buy a game again on a separate account after they've been banned. The systems used (VAC, EasyAntiCheat, Battleye, Warden, etc.) are all constantly updated and catch every hacker eventually.

And you have to think that in DUST progression is based on skill points which is based on time. If a hacker wants to burn a bunch of 500,000 SP accounts to have his perverted version of fun, then have at it. Any idiot who would risk his 10+ million SP for a chance at some free headshots will get his due accordingly. There's very, very few games where hackers got to the point where it broke the game.

Please, if you're going to try and make an argument against the PC, at least make it a good one.