As some of us were observant enough to see, the Jan/Feb period is starting to feel like the target for this upcoming "update".

Sony put out a a (surprising? It's for PS3) 1.7.8 Firmware Update only last week...

Sony's Account Server has been a bit glitchy over the past few weeks...

CCP (clearly not dead, nor laid-off, nor any other goofy conspiracy theory players were getting drunk off of, ugh...) has been tweaking and resetting their Servers over the past week...

And, in case no one noticed (some of us did---we have lots of sharp eyes in Dust 514--kudos!), there have been some very subtle alterations to the way dates and times are recorded in your merc-wallet....

And now, a Security component being added to CCP's Server, scheduled for the 1st day of Feb...

All this, during the year when the game has finally been reported as turning a profit for the dev company at last...

....Conspiracy theories out the window, even I sense something intense and new about to occur with this upcoming "1.3". Will it even be called an Update? It may be something so more substantial than that... that it could rise to what Eve-Online calls an "Expansion Pack".
...There is blood in the water.

I feel safe in predicting that this next addition to the game, is going to do something way beyond anything we've referred to as Updates before.

They don't say anything because they have nothing to say. The idea that 1.3 is so huge and controversial that a Dev doesn't have the time for a single post in two months is just delusional. Time to face facts and accept that the end is nigh.

That's the best thing that could happen.

Correct me if I am wrong but didn't CCP say that Tranquility was grtting an overhaul in this update?

Tranquillity itself is having a hardware update so it's safe to assume they are sorting all that out before 1.3 and citadels for Eve even get close to coming out.

We should hope that is done fast and done properly so no problems arise.

Sorry Echo can't give you anything specific on 1.3 at this time. Bummer I know but there you are.

And Di, read out your questions out loud to your self and you will see that any answer or combination of answers we might give to the first two would confirm/deny to anyone with a small amount of logical thought as what we know/not know about a port happening or not happening, so none of us are going to answer either of them.

And as for the third... how you even think that giving an answer to such a loaded question as that wouldn't be breaching our NDA is frankly staggering.

Any one of your a b or c answers would be enough to break NDA because it's confirmation of a 'hypothetical' question.

We can say CCP is working but only if it's related to Dust and right now they're working on the battle server issues currently messing with the game.

We can't comment one way or the other about if a port is happening, going to happen or happened already. We can't comment or make inference as to a format or formats that a port may or not go to. We can't even speculate as to what we'd like to see in a port if it happens or not because there are players on this forum that will jump on anything we might say and weave it into the latest bit of tin foil. (I know right?)

It's a rubbish situation to be in but until CCP makes a statement of announcement of their intentions we can't comment on anything unless it relates to Dust on the PS3.

So whats the point of having a council of player manipulation?

I did it to be closer to Zaria, my one true love.

Theres seems to be a misunderstanding here, and im not quite sure we are on the same page.

What questions are you exactly talking about?

Do you mean

A) You have to trust us, CCP is cooking something worth waiting for in the next update.

B) Dont have too many expectations, the next update is not going to deliver anything big.

C) You should be worried, the future does not look bright.

If so, they are not questions, I wanted you to pick the sentence that best suits how you feel about CCPs work on dust 514 on the PS3

A and B, no comment because of NDA and because answering would fuel the port debate/tin foil.

And C is the one that's certainly breaking the NDA either way so not touching that one either.

There is no hypothetical statement or question you could pose dealing with Dust's future that we could answer in any way that wouldn't be seen by CCP's lawyers as breaching the NDA. I really can't see how I can make that any clearer.

We can answer your questions once CCP talk and not before.

Everyone I knew in SI wanted to be closer to Zaria...none of them succeeded afaik

Both of you can gtfo...

boo hoo

When Cazaderon was CPM in 2013 (ex-CEO of What The French), he said exactly the same thing for DUST development (yeah, and that was the silence too...).

The reason? Because for the FanFest, CCP said that Legion will be port on PC, and not for the ps4. 5 months before, he stopped completely the game because he was disgusted about that when he learnt it, but of course he said nothing because he was also under the NDA.

What I see today? Exactly the same history, and now I'm pretty sure it's for the same reason. Dust is still in development of course, but the next update will be controversial apparently.

With the new servers who are coming (they are too powerful for the currently EvE/DUST players), the excess of power is for sure for a big project... and the best platform for CCP is the PC because it's a powerful architecture, and above all, they are more famous there than in console.

(and for investors, the $$$ gain is the more important, and I'm sure they think the PC will be more rentable, and they have maybe right, because I have some Eve players in my corp, and all of them said to me they will use their money if DUST will be on PC, so I can't imagine how it's in the CCP mind if there is 30 000 or 40 000 players who think like that)

In short, just say that DUST will be port on PC, and we will be fixed. And if I'm wrong, fine, but well, I'm not really naive haha. ;)

So I have a question, do I have to build a PC gamer for this year, or not? Thanks lol