Rouge does not deserve any of the hate he got after Fanfest 2014.

The lack of accurate recall in here is crazy.
The FF2014 announcement was a riot because in the preceeding months DUST had been due multiple fixes for various game elements and mechanics that didn't happen. Instead it was months of total silence from the dev team, then, during what was supposed to be an expose of DUST's year(s) to come was an announcement that CCP had effectively quit doing anything support-wise for DUST so as to create a demo for Legion. And don't forget in those weeks prior there was the escalation of monetization elements (100% boosters, anyone?). THAT's the environment that announcement was made in.
Would people react the same to the same announcement now? Who knows. Could CCPs dev group at the time handled the problems that existed then, as Rattati has since? Who knows.

The latter question tho is the real kicker. At the end of the day it comes down to the old adage, "Where there's a will, there's a way." If CCP want to grow the relationship they've fostered with the console gaming community, then they will. If they want to diversify their clientele base by branching (farther?) into mobile, then they will. If they want to solely want to rely on the support of the "PCMasterRace" then they'll do that. IMHO, if they felt last of those was a worthwhile goal then they never would've grown into the console market in the first place.

Well, when they last played, they basically said they're going to take their instruments and play to a completely different crowd as well as take your money and leave.

Soooo.... There are reasons.

Rouge hate was misdirected, but I would say CCP Shanghai hate was justified.

Quite.

Also, it ever occur to any of you people posting with superior attitudes about PCs that you're a major reason why many of the current community wouldn't follow the game to PC?

The honest fact is that your attitude is so repugnant that many people play console games to avoid it.

A gaming PC costs more than a console, and PC games usually involve the use of 3rd party software like VoIP that some people don't want to deal with. Let's also keep in mind that some people have families and a console is more accessible to both the parent and the kids.

These people are NOT inferior.

These people are NOT inferior.

No, but their platform of choice is.

Let's face it. Most people who don't have a gaming PC is not because they don't want the awesome graphics, endless stream of mods, and buttery smooth performance.

They don't want to / can't shell out the cash to get and maintain one. Which is fine. But the simple fact is that PC will probably always be superior to consoles to anyone but casuals.

In their defense, the 3rd party VOIPs would probably be a lot more reliable.

Superior in what way?

Hardware performance is about the only way it really is.

This guy speaks trufacts.

Careful with this, this town'll run you out on a rail for associating with the likes of me.

Everyone go on twitter and tweet @HilmarVeigar #greenlightlegion

it's not too late?

Rouge does not deserve any of the hate he got after Fanfest 2014.

CCP Rouge being the director of Eve TV and proprietor of the streaming service itself is clearly a justifiable reason why the man is at fault.

/sarcasm

You got pissed at the one guy who dared show his face despite the poor planning on behalf of people that are not him. The one guy who had the balls to actually go up at the beginning of the Eve Keynote to play damage control the next day. S'okay, though, because I did too later on. Got banned for it, even.

The hatred toward CCP Rouge was ill-placed and knee-jerky. Players couldn't - and still can't, apparently - understand the orchestra that is behind the scenes and will fault developers they know and see for the actions of the ones they don't.

Learn from that experience.

And one wonders why

Rouge does not deserve any of the hate he got after Fanfest 2014.

I believe what Aeon is saying is that Rouge wasn't the one who made that decision.
He was CCP Shanghai's public face, but there was a net of strings behind the scene that made various decisions, decisions that Rouge didn't approve of and yet had to speak for.

CCP Shanghai had some staff pruning post FanFest 2014, particularly in the PR and marketing department.

While skipping over the "port naow" posts looking for something worth reading in GD, it occurred to me that the lowest moment in Dust's history -- the infamous Rouge Wedding -- was in fact nothing short of a port announcement!

More content.
Sexier graphics.
Better framework.
Fewer middlemen.
Presumably less lag.
Larger potential playerbase.
Etc ...

... and we freakin' crucified the dude.

If CCP Rouge waltzed in today and announced the very same thing he announced in 2014, would we not hail him as hero and savior?

Holy crap- has the whole CPM been granted some detailed info and insight that the rest of the dust playerbase has To? Maybe that is exactly the case. When did you all get this terrific opinion of Rouge?

What has he done for dust? The only blue team that we have ever heard, over the past year, of doing anything positive for this game is Frame, Ratatti and crew. And crew has never included Rouge.

If that guy has contributed to this game in any positive way then spell it out.

Respectfully Mr Bait,

When someone talks TO you it is, by definition, direct.

Of course there are people doing things with DUST that we never hear of or from. Hilmar comes to mind.

But these mystery people do not talk to us and any opinion we form of them is founded upon what we know.

So it is surprising to hear from multiple CPM2s about how great and contributory CCP Rouge has been.

And, again, I will gladly suspend and reform my negative opinions if and when someone with DIRECT knowledge and insight lists some of those contributions.

How is my position unreasonable in this matter?

... it's pretty clear that right now Rattati is the only one that can handle this place.