They actually told you (and everyone else) why they have said nothing over and over and over again over the last year. CCP has had year after year of over-promising, and under-delivering. In fact, their tendency to share too much, that they failed to then deliver on, is where most people's faith in CCP went. CCP's new strategy is to not announce anything until it is basically done. So if and when they announce something new, it's because they're absolutely sure it's happening as opposed to something they might be working on. It's frustrating dealing with silence, but it's a lot worse to be constantly let down by broken promises.

Gunjack and Dust don't draw from a singular budget. The Shanghai studio is not run from a singular pool of money but rather development is portioned out on a project by project basis AFAIK meaning that the work they do on Gunjack or on maintaining their local shard of EVE does not pull from the income stream of Dust development.
Likewise the office itself is not something that functions entirely in a vacuum and 'big ticket' items generally have some level of management level approval from outside the Shanghi studio at some point in their life cycle (this approval is as I understand it tied to allocation of things like the company wide R&D budget).

The simple fact is that in gaming if a company has more than one development team there is hardly ever a 1:1 correlation.
The common notion that expenditures are 'being taken out of' one projects budget to be 'put into' another is at a functional level misconception in your larger scope modern studios.

From my conversations with CCP Devs of many sorts at Fanfest it is clear to me that the company as a whole is working on many projects set in several studios but they each have their own books to balance. Gunjack no more cuts into Dust than Valk cuts into EVE. Were you do actually see a sort of zero sum relationship is when a project is scrapped altogether as was done with WoD those Devs are now working on something else and would not be on their current project if their former one were still live.

I can say without hesitation what I have said frequently before. The Dust development team wants Dust to grow, live, and continue. In a perfect world that'd be all anyone needed to know to feel confident but this real world is far from perfect and there are many more constraints and pitfalls than simply intent alone, implementation, capacity, and yes budget/profitability all play roles in that of course. However come end of the day Dust will live or die on an assessment of its own merits, not on the existence, or absence, of other projects being pursued somewhere within the company.
Many people declared Dust "dead" after the project legion presentation, but Dust showed merits of its own and is still alive and kicking, it is my hope and active intent to support and further that as much as possible with the obvious aim to get the game ported (hopefully to PS4 and PC) so it does not end with the PS3.

Gunjack is not a worry for Dust, it's just a separate entry in the CCP catalog.

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I'm not advocating for silence, so much as explaining why they are silent on the long term future. The entire company is on that page, and you and I are not going to get them to change it.

That's also not to say they have to get to deployment day before they speak, but like Gunjack, which is not yet out, they need to be at the stage in development where release is assured.

In case you're curious, Aeon, we've never had access to FoxFour as CPM1, and when I've asked for just some super simple API stuff for DUST outside of that, I was told it could not be done, but couldn't even get an answer as to why. Recently someone asked FoxFour about getting DUST Alerts workng again, and I offered to help host it or whatever if needbe, but didn't get a response. (This was all public forums and Twitter, FWIW.) And so, if you've had better luck contacting him, more power to you, but I don't really need your usual accusatory tone when I have, in fact, done my job.

Note: FoxFour has many other things on his plate, and we're not really his responsibility, so I am not blaming him for anything at all here. He's even helped DUST when he didn't have to. Just being clear, this is not a thing I ignored.

Aeon, I almost hope you get on the next CPM so you can eat your words as I ask you if you're really asking the hard questions or just coasting by on what you're given.

On a more serious and less snarky/condescending note, why don't we have another community crowdsourcing of ideas for FW like we did for PC? I think that some very constructive discussions took place AND we could involve the CSM, CPM, & players from BOTH games?

I'll toss a few ideas in the thread (no computer for optimal trello-ing atm), but we need to expand our proverbial reach if we want Dust to be taken seriously by CCP HQ. I don't think that's currently the case based on the new product pipeline nor by having both of Ratman's hands tied with resources.
I feel that we need a dialogue with our EVE overlords in a constructive manner, both with the CSM and any of their players interested in FW. We don't need to start with firing upon one another and putting huge amounts of isk at risk, but starting with smaller things... donating to the ground-war effort to supply troops with gear (maybe FW only gear?), having EVE players decide on where we fight, something to increase our interaction in a natural way. Hell, use the current EVE FW mechanics of controlling an area to lock onto enemy vessels and have US put our damned orbital artillery to use, like a reverse orbital strike.

Basically, what it comes down to, is CSMs and EVE devs mostly care about EVE players, much like CPMs and DUST devs mostly care about DUST players. The sweet spot of mutual interest will happen someday but that day isn't today. Talk to regular EVE players, that's going to get you much further than trying to convince CSM to take our wishes over those of their own community.

Do not understand how to join the website without creating a team. Elaborate on how to sign up please.

Slack isn't really designed for public chatrooms. And I'm still not sure which hipsters were responsible for creating a Slack for EVE people. Just go on Skype, you get the same crud without the awful.