'No Future' - The Sex Pistols.

Or

'It's a beautiful day!' - U2.


Chose wisely CCP.

Is there someone here who can play jaunty sailing music, preferably on an accordion?

That'll do just fine! Now all we need is a parrot and a box of eye patches. Not sure how many will ride on the dingy.

Looks like that thread derailed right into a big ball of unsubstantiated tinfoil.

Tell us something we don't already know.

My point was these threads should be used as a place to voice support for more communication from CCP. Tinfoiling doesn't do much for us except cause silly arguments about platforms and "where it all went wrong".

Letting everyone know that the boycott is not in keeping with the spirit of #PortDust514.

We are attempting to reach out to CCP without making threats of a "show of force". A boycott is, however mild, a threatening gesture. I understand the frustration that players are having, I do. I really do. A boycott is not the answer though.

Honestly, I don't get you and your goals.

A call for a port is understandable, and we have been heard. However you can't imagine that such work would be instant or that CCP would ever 'cave in' and announce anything dependent on aggressive actions.

if a port is coming, then it will happen regardless of this 'strike' or not. If one is not coming then nothing will change.

Still trying to cause grief to the employees of a company for no other reason than to appease your own ego is not a worthy or productive goal. It does not give you any power, nor does it help anyone do anything. All this action amounts to is a display of false activism.

Aggression muddies the waters of proper discourse, and only serves to exacerbate a problem, not help others see a solution.

Got a question for you.

this is not a defense of the silence.

How many times has a dev shared information, and not been responded to in the following manner: "You're an idiot" directly or indirectly, "you're lying about X data" or "you're only providing enough to prove your point but you're being deceptive," or been told they're ruining the game?

This is a two-way street.

DUST is profitable, but no one has EVER said HOW profitable. Not even to me, nor will they likely ever tell me how deep in the red or black DUST is. Technically $0.01 more than CCP spends running DUST is a profit.

They simply won't. Doesn't matter how much you want otherwise.

As to open discussions, CCP under rattati has been more open about communicating and accepting player input. Hotfix Foxfour was almost entirely changes proposed and developed by players.

The CPM exists as a filter for people who cannot read every single post and still have enough time to do their jobs.

The silence, while aggravating, is grounded very firmly in real issues. I may disagree with it, but I fully understand it. We're not going to change it without both the EVE and DUST community ratcheting back the open hostility by a few dozen newton-meters of torque.

Nothing in the community's overall responses to any given change indicate that sharing more would be a good idea. It's a two-way street.

The lag thing I can't speak on.

And I've been here since beta, does this mean I care less because I don't see things through your lens?

And the people who made this thread want CCP to move the game to another platform so the game can be made better and not be hamstrung by a nine year old console's limitations. Currently you bringing in the whole DUST strike crap here is derailing this thread and undermining their efforts.

Hey!!!! How did you do that?!! How can I do that??!!!

No. Holding your currency hostage isn't going to improve anything. This is a free to play game. Saying 'I'll spend X amount of money if you tell us Y' isn't going to change their attitudes about the silence. Especially not a measly $5 from one person for information about the game that would be spread to the masses. This is a game company, not a desperate crack addict. They need to do what is in their best interest. Right now, they believe that to be staying silent.