CCP;

Why the info black out prior to today's 'announcement' about no patch until 21AUG and open invite to the EVE player community to enter DUST closed beta?

That is the real question: Why impose the information black out on your current testing community? Did DUST development staff decide this was the best way to communicate when and how the next steps in closed beta would proceed?

Did something happen with the roll out plan and Sony's lack of action that suggested saying nothing for several days regarding any changes, events, plans or otherwise was the best business approach to this matter?

I am just asking for a CCP response on this issue. I do not expect to get one. I do expect to hear a ton of play tester responses.

And I'll make this final statement: this is not good business. This is not a good approach to growing an integrated community. When you stop talking and don't explain why things are happening (or why they are not) the other side [yes - your actions create two distinct sides] starts to formulate their own ideas of why.

And this is where a distrusting or adversarial tone gets set in Player/Developer environments. Sometimes its the players. But in this case I would suggest that the testing community wants to interact, listen, assist and participate. Your choices of how that relationship proceeds can dictate how our community reacts to the development team and the game overall.

So, whatever the real reason you decided to communicate with the current closed beta community the way you did, please consider how it will effect our interactions in the future.

Very Respectfully,

This was posted yesterday



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great post, everyone else gets the info and we left in the dark. i just don't understand why all these eve players saying that CCP are great with their community and we get nothing? dust 514 looks like it's going to be a good game but things like this just puts me off the game. why should i put time in a game when CCP are just messing me around.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=30002&find=unread

In case you all haven't seen it. CCP has posted the most detailed and welcome of patch notes.

Thank you all. Thank you, CCP. Wonderful informative and, no CDR, we didn't miss the fact that you've given us this terrific info first.

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