Scheneighnay McBob wrote: It's been stated multiple times in the past that Dust as we know it ends on PS3.
It was developed poorly, and is being rebuilt from the ground up to actually be an MMO, and not a lobby shooter. That game is Legion, and that game is not coming to PS4.
As far as we know. Of course, CCP is so unbelievably tight lipped on Legion that you have to wonder what the hell is going on. DUST as the original concept might be done. The game could be a Day Z type game based on getting Salvage out in the field considering FF14 rather than an MMO for all we know.
Scheneighnay McBob wrote:
People will come on here and say we haven't heard anything about Legion lately, but it's far more than we've heard about the PS4.
CCP acknowledged that developing on PS3 in the first place was a mistake, and they don't want to put another serious game on a console.
Valkyrie is coming for PS4, but it's incredibly obvious that's just a short-term cash-grab arcade game to take advantage of the VR fad.
When did CCP "[acknowledge] that developing on PS3 in the first place was a mistake"? The only thing I can find is Rouge stating "Was it a mistake to launch on PS3? No. If today the idea is "Why are you going to PC now?" I feel that today, from what we have, the experience we're trying to do, PC is the right way to win at first" when asked "Do you think it was a mistake launching Dust on a platform that was already on its way out by the time Dust released?" (
long time ago for sure) Even if they feel "we should never have tried this console stuff" I haven't been able to find a link about it.
Even more so, I haven't seen any statement on how they don't want to go on console, especially the 'serious game' bit. I might have missed it, certainly; I miss a lot of things because I live in a basement and cuddle my Hello Kitty full body pillow while eating Cheetos all day. Do you have a link that suggests that they actively don't want to go to PS4 rather than statements of "we haven't looked into it; Legion is still a prototype/if Legion becomes a thing"?
I won't make any statements on VR being a fad because it is not even really out yet so I just don't know. I do think it is weird that Hilmar is going head over heels for every bit of VR. "VR fire is the future!" and stuff like that.
The scary thing is the fact that CCP is being so damn quite about things. We don't know if 'Legion' is just "DUST 514 on the PC", if the game has been utterly scrapped, we don't know if it will go to PS4 (again, unless you know of an exact link because my dumb self doesn't), we don't know if they are looking to pull a War Thunder and have PC and PS4 people shoot at each other, we just don't know anything. As the EVE term goes: "we don't know, so let's hope the devs know."
I think the only way this doesn't end messy is having Cross Platform Play and letting us keep our SP, Aurum, names, and corporations at the very least. But we just don't have a clue...