Only means there will be a lot more to look forward to, I bet it will be more than well worth the wait.

Also, doesn't Eve have roughly a 6 month schedule for significant updates? It would stand to reason that Dust will follow the same pattern.

It didn't use to be like that in its initial start until much later.....much much later.

Where do you think SOONtm came from?

When eve was launched the developers were so broke at the time they launched what they had to try and save the game and their wallets, trust me eve wasn't pretty for a few years.

Here's the biggest thing to consider, us eve players over a year ago asked CCP to focus their resources on eve and not dust.

They agreed and cut the dust team down significantly.

We had issues in eve that were taking to lo long

So really CCP is having to work with limited resources since the main income, eve has said they want the focus there not dust.

Also they had to almost halt another game they are developing because of the eve community out cry that CCP's focus had changed to much from their main game.

That will never happen, I do agree dust is going slow,

I recently quit eve after 10 years because I like dust more, more of an fps guy but eve is fun.

In the eve community if you ask current thoughts on dust you will receive this opinion in mass,

I heard dust is just a cheap knock off of planetside 2. Why bother.

With that kind of mentality do you really think eve community would allow their expansions to be cut simply becausemthe dust community want a better development? Not when 95% of eve refuses to play because the mass rumor is dust is crap and not getting any better SOONtm.

Which I find sad. Like you said if we focused CCP dev resources on dust for 1 year, we would have an amazing game.

But get used to the progression because that will never happen SOONtm

I can almost guarantee that it will be out near the end of Feburary, or beginning of March.

@Parson

CCP is a legitimate company. You are correct. But they are a company that is sticking to their roots unlike other major gaming companies. They also want to break the traditional stereotype or assumptions on how a gaming company should operate. How often do you see MMO companies host conventions specifically all about their product outside the typical Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conventions in a venue that is in their own home country and allows you to pay your Fanfest tickets with PLEX? What about letting the players have their very own player-elected representatives (in this case the Council of Stellar Management) that not only speak for the players but also dictate the direction of the game's development? Are the developers of other games willing to stand idly by as a group of players threaten to burn an entire economy for 3 days while the developers say things like "F**king Brilliant"?

You are also correct that the market is over-saturated with FPS games right now. That is certain. This is why CCP has to think and operate differently to the point where most new players will be forced to be taken out of their comfort zone and be thrown into a universe that is so violent that New Eden is practically the Mos Eisley of the gaming universe where the only way to survive is to adapt while the weak are left to rot in Hek as the strong become powerful megalomaniacs that fight for control of the galactic economy.

Also, YOUR NAME HERE's statement about the Eve players demanding CCP to focus most of their resources to fixing Eve does deny and refute the idea that Dust is progressing too slowly. CCP is still a small company regardless of their success and thus they do have limited resources. Back in 2011 they had to cut back on many things and thus 100+ people lost their jobs as a result of the mass protest by the players. The 2011 Guinness Book of World Records Gaming Edition placed CCP at #1 for most player WALK-OUTS in a single month during the summer of rage. The CEO or Vice President even had to post a public apology to the players for the greed the company exhibited and thus the company promised to finally focus their efforts on fixing Eve Online. So yeah, it does deny and refute the idea that Dust is progressing too slowly.

It's our fault, really.