dude CCP shanghai he been re-tasked to VR, they havnt even been working on dust for a few months now.

rattati did so well he got pulled from dust to another project as CCP always does.

its likely we will see less and less of rattati now as CCP constantly shifts him around to give every new project the rattati treatment.

In other rumors just pulled out of people ass. I hear all video game developers working in china have been kidnapped by the government and are forced into slave labor to develop Chinese video games.

TL:DR - Take the chip off of your shoulder. Under Rattati, CCP Shanghai has shown their commitment to DUST. This is not "CCP as a company" or even "Old CCP" we're dealing with, so we should stop responding that way.

For the record, I'm a bitter vet (Been here since E3). I'm not saying I'm the oldest DUST player, nor the most experienced. That statement is just to say that I've been here long enough, and put enough time and money into this game, that I truly want more information on dust's future.

That being said, I think that there are too many people on the "CCP hates Dust" hype train in GD. Yes, I understand that it has been three months since the last Dev update. I too would like more information (or at least interaction) between the shanghai team, the CPM and us. But whatever the reason for this current bout of silence, the last thing that I question is Rattati, Frame, or the rest of the shanghai team's loyalty to Dust.

People seem to forget that, just two years ago, the head of DUST said that we'd no longer have client updates, and the VP of product development said that "Dust wasn't a great game" in interview. Since Ratatti has been in charge, we've seen substantial hot fixes, client updates, and more organization and transparency than all the information that had been provided to us prior.

Whether or not this should have been personal practice from the beginning is a non-issue to me, because we're not at the beginning anymore. We're three years in, with a small development team pushing really hard on a project that most of the company had given up on. DUST could die tomorrow and I would still respect the effort that Ratatti et al. has put in.

The forums are full of enough dreariness to make anyone want to stay off of them. I usually don't post because I don't have anything to complain about. But I saw the value in adding a drop of positive support to the bucket, so here I am.

A captain can love his sinking ship more than life itself but if all he has is duct tape to fix it he best hope he brought enough floaties for the crew.

YOU CAN'T FORCE YOUR OPTIMISM ON ME!!!

Lol. I was actually thinking about adding a section saying: "If you're going to be pessimistic, at least don't hop on the bandwagon. Its a disservice to people like DUST Fiend."