Some doom and gloom people say never. Dust caused alot of people to lose their jobs. But if both communities rallied together it could change big CCPs mind and things like this could happen.

That is deeply unclear.

Nor do I expect CCP to share details about terminations publicly (that's actually against labor laws in most countries as far as I am aware) nor do I particularly give a crap about said details.

I'd rather not pick at the wound for a bit.

What matters is now. What can we do now to work with CCP? This company has had my buy in for 6 years now, we all have setbacks so other than all the aur I've bought... Question yourself. What have you done? Constructive criticism sure... +1 ng good ideas, but to sell the ONE UNIVERSE//ONE WAR concept hasn't happened since Zion.

And admitting mistakes professionally is good for business... The solution was devs like Rattati that rubbed two isk together and made a nearly finished product that deserves support NOW. If anyone desires to say I attacked the development you are wrong, when the chips were down I stood up and gave the money I work hard for to support this venture and I still do this to the day.

Not entirely accurate.

If you go to the faction warfare chat channels you will occasionally see Eve Online pilots offering orbital bombardment support for those Dust players fighting in faction warfare. They earn at least 6,000 LP every time they pull the trigger to deliver the bombardment. You will usually see them in all four of the major FW channels.

The main advantage that OB support has over NPC warbarge strikes is that OB support does NOT require war points. All the pilot has to do is link up with the district and wait 3 minutes between shots. If the pilot manages to destroy anything, they also get a kill mail detailing the fittings of the suits worn by the poor souls who were blown to bits.

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Anyways, CCP does not consider the link between the two games to be priority at this point especially after how they announced Eve: Valkyrie being a standalone game with no Eve connection whatsoever. And since the economies between Dust and Eve are so vastly different in terms of ISK value, means of acquiring ISK, and the level of exploits, the chances of both economies merging like that are as unlikely as you and me ever winning a state lottery.

The link is no longer the primary focus here anyways. The focus now is on fixing the bugs which is exactly what CCP Rattati and his team have been doing and so far they are doing a fine job. There are still problems with the game, but believe me when I say that Dust has seen FAR WORSE days back when it first launched. If Dust launched then in the state it is now, the game would have gotten a far better reception compared to the massive marketing setback it suffered then.

PS: Have you see Splatoon lately? It's constant disconnects and domination-style ranked battles remind me of Dust.

@ krias you said not following thru on promises is a cardinal sin. There is a new guard now compared to the promises they keep realism. Other than Zion saying back in the day "I want to punch Goonswarm in the face" nobody unless those involved with pc showed interest to Dust. The greater community did not push the content cause the communication between both was cumbersome and the payouts small. That being said there is alot this game has to offer NOW and there is a quiet resistance forming. The fact the community didn't do it then when it mattered doesn't mean with the right push the community won't give it another shot.

There is still a large team of Devs in Shanghai, and as far as we can tell, most of them have been working on the next incarnation of DUST on a new platform since September 2013. (That VR game concept they showed at Fanfest was produced during their free time, so did not divert any clockable hours.) We know that Rattati has been getting more help from them recently, but most of their time is devoted to something else.

That "Something Else" used to be Project Legion, but CCP has not said anything about Project Legion since DUST 514 started turning around and becoming profitable. Since PS4 architecture is very similar to PC architecture they can do a lot of development before they have to decide which platform to release on.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that we will have much more support and development on the next platform, when we finally get there.

The EVE/DUST market link requires CCP to resolve the EVE/DUST ISK exchange rate. I would be inclined to switch DUST over to using Terrestrial Kredits (TEK) with every ISK being worth ~10 TEK.
- Have DUST items only purchasable with TEK, and EVE items only purchasable with ISK.
- Have the ability to sell TEK for ISK on the market. (Market driven exchange rate.)
- Have the ability to sell ISK for TEK on the market. (Market driven exchange rate.)

So EVE characters could buy DUST TEK and buy/sell DUST items, and vice a versa.

I am expecting the Savaging Grounds PVE open world areas with a salvage based economy that they talked about for Legion will probably make it into the next incarnation of DUST. They did have a working build of the Salvage Grounds that they were testing internally.

Edit: I meant Salvaging Grounds... but Savaging Grounds will likely be an apt description too.