The wider the audience, the more platforms you push the game onto, the less focused and more fragmented the experience becomes. Dust 514 seems to be designed with that in mind. Instead of fragmenting and diluting the EVE experience it channels it (or reveals it) along a specific and limited vector (or from a new and distinct vantage point) hopefully adding more people to the fold in the really elegant and contained manor (or, as CCP put it, revealing another facet of the Universe) without disturbing or obscuring what is already there.

I had been thinking about writing up some of the best counter arguments to my manifesto that I can think of, since they haven't yet appeared in this thread and are worth considering.

Ultimately I think you missed the whole thrust of what I was trying to say. The only entity CCP should be "loyal" to is CCP.

However, back to the whole business thing: reaching a wider audience might allow you to make more money, selling to more customers. It doesn't necessarily mean that you can continue to offer the best possible product. It does not mean that you can sustain your expansion. More and bigger is not always better. Sometimes small is beautiful. People will sometimes resent "sell outs" and Dust has seen an undo amount of criticism because of that. What I object to are those that do not seem to care if Dust 514 is "good" or "bad" in its own right, but only deem it bad because they can' have it, or are unwilling to take any steps to obtain it. And therefor seem to be saying that it is only going to be a good thing if it belongs to them.