True. A little hard to forget that.

But that was in the past and that is not likely to be repeated for several reasons.

1. They clearly don't want a repeat of what happened with World of Darkness. Devoting 8 years and millions of dollars in development that resulted in not only the project getting perma-shelved but also the rights to it sold to another game company. Not something they are proud of bringing up let alone repeating that mistake. Dust 514 was the same thing except it actually did finish and was released. CEO Hilmar said that the game was actually making a profit at that time. Though probably not by much, it still made something in return for CCP's investment into the project. So there is that hope with Nova.

2. CCP Rattati is still in charge of development of Project Nova. As you and I have seen in the past, ever since he took over managing the dev team, Dust 514 greatly improved for all of us in a very short time. Unfortunately it was too late. The PS3 was already dying and CCP Rattati mentioned that the game can't possibly be further optimized at that point given the nature of the legacy code and the limits of the hardware.

3. Project Nova is no longer using the same base code as Dust 514. Dust was using Unreal Engine 3. Nova is using Unreal Engine 4 which required scrapping the original code. Thankfully, the assets were transferable and the dreaded legacy code that plagued us all was thrown away.

3. Development has been moved to Iceland. Home of Eve Online and where the entire Eve devs are located so that the game can finally be done right this time.

4. CCP Games now has prior experience in developing first-person shooters thanks to Dust 514, Valkyrie, and Gunjack.

5. Last, but most important, it will be on the PC. This is huge because now we can have a chance of having our own test server access to try out changes to the game en mass BEFORE it gets deployed into the main server itself. This is what was not available to us at the time with Dust. If we can finally get a test server for Project Nova like how Eve Online has one, that would be awesome. Overwatch has it's own PTR server on the PC as well. I am not sure if the console versions of Overwatch having PTR access as well but then again they are running on more advanced consoles like the PS4 and XBone.

I miss my jail cell apartment with a bed no one could ever fit on, oh and my sweet hologram partner.

Our ambition is not to do a fixed class lobby shooter. It is also to learn from EVE and Dust 514, a thinking man's shooter that is easy to understand, difficult to master.

Many concepts from Dust are alive in development, and many others have been cut.