The one thing I'm most curious about right now is how much communication in regards to this new Dust will we get before FanFest 2016?

I mean, I understand if you guys are going to keep the details under-wraps for marketing reasons, but I'm just curious.

Dude, when they announced Legion and backstabbed console players in april 2014, decision was made in mid-November 2013 at the very least. I challenge anyone to deny that fact as it would simply be dishonest.

We knew as CPM during december and despite my pretty savage push to go public ASAP, it still stayed under the carpet until April because it needed "good communication". Anyone here remembers about "good communication" during FF14 ?

What i remember is rathr a good amount of paid gear to be released between january 2014 and april 2014.

But what will happen to the forums?

Are you not breaching the NDA there mate?

The one thing I'm most curious about right now is how much communication in regards to this new Dust will we get before FanFest 2016?

I mean, I understand if you guys are going to keep the details under-wraps for marketing reasons, but I'm just curious.

Something is better than nothing, will there be a beta? (with early access to dust mercs)

We've made it clear that the forums be preserved in some way. As to the future of the forums, a quick trip over to the Valkyrie forums should give you a few pointers.

That...that seems a rather horrid layout

Dear DUST 514 Community,

CCPGÇÖs development team in Shanghai has been working on a prototype for a first-person shooter for PC with the goal of building a great FPS set in our sci-fi universe of New Eden (the universe in which EVE Online, DUST 514, EVE: Valkyrie, and Gunjack are set). Their experience is being utilized to build a new game from scratch using Unreal Engine 4 while harnessing all our learnings from DUST 514. This is in many ways an evolution of Project Legion, the concept we announced at EVE Fanfest 2014, but without the limitations of technical debt and development paths we quickly discovered in that effort that could never serve as a future-proof technology base for a full production game. This new project is still in an early phase of production, and we feel like weGÇÖre on the right track and plan to give an update at EVE Fanfest on April 21st as a part of the free livestream of the event. Since this new game will be different from DUST 514 (although keeping many of its great parts), we will provide tiered recognition rewards to our loyal DUST customers, details to be announced.

We are very proud of what weGÇÖve learned and accomplished with DUST 514 on PlayStation 3 over the past three years and it is an honor to be a part of such a dedicated community. We consider DUST 514 one of the best free-to-play offerings on the platform, but the years have caught up with us. It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that DUST 514 will be shutting down on May 30th, 2016. We therefore will not be releasing the 1.3 update as we had planned. Players will continue to be able to play for free on our servers until then, but all further PSN packs and purchases have been removed and disabled from the in-game marketplace and the PlayStation Store. Players with existing Aurum will be able to continue to purchase items from the in-game marketplace.

Thank you for being a part of DUST 514 on the PlayStation 3. We look forward to the next chapter, and hope youGÇÖll be a part of it and continue the journey with us.

Can't say for sure, because that's up to CCP obviously, but I'd be surprised if we didn't get more blue tags popping up once the immediate rush dies down.

It does seem odd but once you get used to it, it become more natural. Plus it has a shed load of feature that'll make running them a hell of a lot easier for Frame.

This announcement pleases me, and, quite frankly, starting from scratch is a great decision and I look forward to supporting it as CCP Shanghai works on it.

(Thank god Dust isn't completely dead)

Also looking forward to hearing CCPs plans for those dust veterans when details become available.

It's been a pleasure o7

Very much this! I, for one, would like my character name to live one. I would request that CCP reserve all current names used in Dust514 as part of the new console so that those like me can live on without a name change. I want my legacy to continue!

The last time they came out and said something first at Fanfest, the world blew up and it was a disaster.

I think announcing it first here, on the forums that the community utilizes, is the responsible way to go about it.

I understand the frustration though.

As an EVE player since 2006 who bought a PS3 FOR DUST, I am sullen by this news. I am happy that Legion will still be a reality. I played DUST with a KB/M anyway and played mostly tanks because AA on the KB/M was non existent and I could only snipe effectively in suits.

I played DUST in Beta and would be willing to Beta test Legion if CCP is looking for testers.

See you on the other side fellas!

Despite common beliefs we really dont

I just wanted to highlight something from the OP.

This is a new game, built from stratch. As a result no one here should make assumptions about anything or everything making the transition from PS3 Dust to PC Dust. You'll be just setting yourselves up for disappointment or false expectations, something which this new game, I think we can all agree, doesn't need round it's neck on day one.

As Yoda says, You must unlearn what you have learned.

I don't expect a full character transfer, but can we at least get our character names reserved?

Legion isn't a thing neither is its forum. This is a new game.