If they hadn't announced it like that at ff14 then things might have gone so much better. They could've said many months before fanfest 2014 that they were working on moving Dust from the ps3 and that's it. And then at ff2014 showing the Legion gameplay and being honest saying that it wasn't gameplay from a ps4 but it was on a PC prototype. That honestly sounds like things would've been more acceptable as long as they pretty much hinted or showed that PC+PS4 was the way they're headed. Even if they got a PC version of Dust out there first and had a PS4 port not long behind( perhaps 6 months if they were working on the PS4 version on the side just with a bit of a smaller crew)

It was really too late at that point to just abandon their console players anyways so a ps4+PC port is pretty much the best way to go since the many EVE players that don't want to buy a console couldn't play Dust and they've got many console only players that have stuck with this game for so long.

Yeah, CCP learned a lot from the FF14 announcement but there's a lot of details surrounding that event that aren't and may never be public. Obviously, I can't go into that, so please don't ask.

However, I will say this with absolute certainty, CCP learned from that experience. And yes there may be some flashbacks to that due to the air of silence from CCP at the moment but it is only because they don't want to make promises they can't deliver on like those made with FF13.

The silence is necessary, unfortunately. When CCP is 100% certain that what they say will come true, that will likely change. That era of 'tentative maybes' and 'hopeful optimism' is gone, replaced by an era of educated, relative assurances. You can see that much with every build that has come since CCP Rattati took over: If he said it was coming, it was usually right around the corner.

Trust me, EVE/Dust abbreviations are confusing, for the longest time I thought when people were talking about PC, I thought they mean Computers not Planetary Conquest.