Maybe, you gotta have big dreams.

You have a carpenter, electrician, but no mason.

Build me a brick house and see how far you get.

I need to balance feature development with revenues, that's simply my job.

I am responsible for a much reduced team from before, and I need to balance feature development with revenues, that's simply my job. I made it my quest, if you will, to add good gameplay, fix long standing issues, work with the community and keep DUST 514 open while our players stick with us. Fixing performance is at the top of our list, now that Warlords is out, and we are even considering moving out any new development back, such as PC 2.0, for the sake of a few frames, which includes a new way of rendering skins, level lighting and the whole chat/voice code.

And honestly, everyone can drop the tinfoil hats, there are no ex-EA execs breathing down my neck, twisting my arm to monetize. I am tasked with making a "normal" profitable ans sustainable game-as-a-service, covering costs and a bit more. Just take a look at PS2 and Smedley's statements on its profitability to see that this is a tough industry. We are very proud of the way we have been gradually improving and we are doing all we can to not make DUST514 P2W.

If i have a case of beer in the fridge I'll find a mason

Or atleast a jolly. And who needs bricks when I got strongboxes for daysXD

I'm imagining plasma cannon welding and I'm also imagining that it won't end well

sadly unfolds tinfoil and places it back into the cupboard

Sorry if I came across as being accusatory. It's just that we've been put through the wringer with Dust in the past so I want to make sure I've got all my bases covered.

Good to hear that performance is being worked on though! I'm a little disappointed that PC2.0 is being pushed back but I think in the long run this is for the best. I get the feeling that there are one or two deep-rooted issues that have been causing the performance problems and resolving them might lead to a big increase in performance, I hope that's the case.

But just imagine this productivity and clear mindedness combined with the resources that DUST had in the past.

Here is another glaring problem no one mentioned outside of CCP Ratatati's control- the fact the game is on the PS3 and basically stuck there. That's going to become more and more of an issue as progress marches on. the only reason I haven't chucked my PS3 yet is so I can give BPOs and other digital garbage away to people here.

Can you get on that player trading, CCP Ratatai? I want to get my PS3 out of the house.

Cat you sound like someone that has some experience with software development. Did you consider that adding more to a team can cause a clear vision to be somewhat obscured? That managing a bigger team has its own additional overheads? A perfect software team would nail a lot of this stuff...but I would suggest there is no such thing.

My own personal take is that despite having more resources in the past, less was delivered (based on what was promised!). What we don't know is whether the previous DUST team were pulled from pillar to post, split up, put onto other CCP projects, put back together again, etc. etc.

I feel confident in saying CCP Ratatti has been 100% a DUST resource since he started. I am in no way saying the team should *not* be increased in size, just that it's not as simple as what I'm hearing you say.

So some of you may remember a couple of months ago I was joking about how a potential employer spent thousands of dollars to fly me across the country, put me up in a resort hotel just so they could talk to me in person.

Well it's a funny story that...

When I initially applied for the job I got the standard cut and past rejection letter reply. A couple of hours later I got another email and phone call apologising and asking if I still wanted to do the interview. I said sure and a few days later did a phone interview. Then they flew me out for the in person interview at their expense. Then about a week later got a phone call saying sorry but they went with somebody else.
Fair enough... that was all back in late November.
Cut to yesterday and I just got an email asking if I was still interested in the job.

So... Do I take the job I've already been rejected twice for? Haha.

Note: The problem is it's very far away and remote... it's on a small island off the northern coast of Australia.
Away from my girlfriend with whom I just recently had a 10 year anniversary.
To put it in perspective, most of you can probably only name one Australian city, Sydney.
It's so far from Sydney that in a straight line I'd actually be closer to the Philippines (which I might note is in a different hemisphere).
Though apparently they have ADSL2+ internet out there, but I'm not sure how stable the connection is.
Either way, if I decide to take the job either you'll be seeing a lot more of me (nothing else to do out there) or none of me at all.

Fair point, Jolly. Can't say that I've ever had a sixer.

So... Just had another interview this morning and walked away with another job offer....

I hate making decisions. They're both so awesome!

But that's my problem. There's already rewards that lean towards the unemployed or those who can otherwise play every day.
And now there's this thing with the warbarge where you have to log in to claim every day.
I've said before but if I was still in my previous job I'd only be able to log in a couple of times a week, even though when I do play it might be for 8+ hour sessions.
And I'm sure there are many others in the same position.
It's one of the reasons I like the Passive SP system so much.

Maybe, you gotta have big dreams.

Are we going to be able to walk around our warbarges soon?