DUST Search - Enough already, CCP

howard sanchez wrote:

Enough with the silent treatment.

Weeks have gone by with essentially no communication about the current state and future direction of this game/service.

The playerbase pleads with you daily and we suffer unexplained down times and poor system performance with increasing frequency.

What is the purpose of this obviously intentional information blackout?

What could you possibly be avoiding speaking about with the small but intensely loyal customer base that waits for some word of our fate?!

This all smacks of management putting a gag order on regarding what we can expect in the near future. And why would you need to do that?

Let's consider the two most impactful possibilities:

1) you are porting DUST to another system and you don't want the info leaked before management is 'ready' - meaning your marketeers think this is a good idea for future growth through marketing- stupid

2) you are not porting DUST and want to use the remaining months of confusion and anticipation in your customers to extract more dollars before shuttering this game - skin bundles my ass

Just talk to us


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Shadowed Cola Tal-Romon Legion Amarr Empire 977	Posted - 2015.09.09 16:52:00 - [1] - Quote howard sanchez wrote: Enough with the silent treatment. Weeks have gone by with essentially no communication about the current state and future direction of this game/service. The playerbase pleads with you daily and we suffer unexplained down times and poor system performance with increasing frequency. What is the purpose of this obviously intentional information blackout? What could you possibly be avoiding speaking about with the small but intensely loyal customer base that waits for some word of our fate?! This all smacks of management putting a gag order on regarding what we can expect in the near future. And why would you need to do that? Let's consider the two most impactful possibilities: 1) you are porting DUST to another system and you don't want the info leaked before management is 'ready' - meaning your marketeers think this is a good idea for future growth through marketing- stupid 2) you are not porting DUST and want to use the remaining months of confusion and anticipation in your customers to extract more dollars before shuttering this game - skin bundles my ass Just talk to us Firstly, they aren't really being all that quiet. You, and the rest of the community, should know by now if CCP is developing a new idea or project we won't hear of it until it's pretty much ready to be shown. i admit it's a bad practice, but it gives CCP wiggle room and freedom to do what they want without our magnifying glass on them. So wether or not they're going to PS4 with Dust, porting Legion instead and finally ending Dust, or plenty of other options available to them, we won't know till it's 3 months away from open beta. They speak often and what they do here, and joke with us on the forums almost once a day. I'm almost dead certain Legion is coming to PS4, because CCP was pretty opened mouthed about the PC port of Legion until community back-lash went hostile. Las Vegas, which was supposed to flesh out Legion more, instead came with, "Well, that sucked." and we got no information. That's pretty much a basic CCP cut-and-run ploy. i can almost guarantee you Legion was near an open beta at Fanfest 2014, there video had every mechanic in place already to play the game, it just needed a few tweaks, added UI, and a few client adjustments and that what we saw on FF2014 could of been playable. A year and a half later - no news. It's almost a dead certainty CCP is making a PS4 FPS game at this point. Way too much production time has gone into it to be just a PC port.