ITS A TRAP!!!!

I'd like to see the whiteboard from CCP's "Why did Dust Fail?" meeting

Don't be. You'll still be playing eventually for nostalgia sake then I'll be there to put a headshot in your dome. GG
That should make it feel like Dust.

Yeah I too feel slightly pessimistic about what Nova will be. I have the feeling it will be missing the vital 'DUST' essence, that thing about DUST that made it unique that you can't quite pin down. Slightly disappointed the complexity of the game is being scaled down. Whilst that makes the game more popular, if CCP was purely concerned about sales then they might as well just make CoD. I'm sure the second-to-second gameplay of Nova will be fun, but there are plenty of other shooters where the second-to-second gameplay is very fun too. Will Nova be able to compete solely on that basis if it doesn't have DUST's X factor? I suppose Nova doesn't really need vehicles. It would be nice if it had them, but I understand that they're very difficult to get right. I just hope CCP doesn't add them as an afterthough; something like that would inevitably mess up balance and leave the vehicle experience unfulfilling. I also hope that there isn't too much focus on PvE. Nova should be primarily a PvP game.

A part of me feels that the flaws of DUST were its strengths. The little bugs and imbalances, quirks and oddities were part of the experience. It made DUST DUST. In furiously polishing something to shine, are we unknowingly eroding away a beautiful mosaic?

Best analysis I've seen yet