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,

100% agree, but there is so many different things going on. Today is the Eve update, so they have to be spending tons of man hours doing that today. Plus try to squeeze in as many things into this update as they can.

Coming from DCUO, we got hints in the news or IGN always weeks before but never from the company. Then the update news would come out on the forums the day before it came out in game. Again this the devs and Sony trying to get through as much as they can in each update, with out over selling it.

While we do have GM's on here, they have to follow CCP rules of forums and company policy and Sony's. Both are told by PR what they can and can't say and when. Trust me they want to share all of this to us, but they are employees of a company and must obey them.

i dont see why they would want to add eve space pilots to tests, when the ps3 has a massive fps playerbase wich could actually give proper feedback. are they opening it up to more ps3 players too?

One word: Leaks

If they give us the when, how and why, then it will leak somewhere and they can't announce big changes to the media without everyone already knowing about it. I for one was very excited to read all the things coming in the next build on a macro level. They don't have the micro level worked out yet. So we don't need to know right away. Once they know all the number changes in dmg or something, then maybe we can be self entitled to know that before everyone else.

Macro Level, we don't need to know.

Micro Level, it would be nice to know before the general public.

So totally the biggest problem about all of this make a game for the same crowd on a new console?? Sony must be desperate to shift more ps3s this year! I feel bad for you guys. This game is blatantly being made for you, but for some reason on the wrong platform. You're a different breed of gamer than the ps3 crowd, and unfortunately CCP's reliance on your feedback for the final version runs an incredible risk of creating a dud....... forever known as the game that should have been on PC. KB/M is the start of it, and unless its embraced as a PS3 game for PS3 gamers its not gonna end up well---- but at least you now have a shiny new PS3 to play COD on