I agree, it makes perfect sense for CCP to branch out into another project. Let me clarify though, another ONE project. CCP are currently developing/maintaining four games and a mobile app. Three of the projects they are working on are new, ie unreleased. Bioware, one of the most successful and powerful games companies on the planet are currently developing.... ONEnew game. Know why? Because splitting your resources so extremely is daft. Blizzard, another market leader is developing ONEnew game.

CCP, are developing two new games. One of which is for a platform that hasn't even been released.

Of course.. its not my money.... but I would hope them the best... and have an element of concern for "a friend" lets say.

I think the better question is; is Dust 514 showing a positive constant cashflow yet? Is the current income enough to cover the development cost or is it turning into a massive fail of a project that is causing CCP to lose money? Also don't forget that Sony made a sizeable investment in Dust during initial development.

Try to read the whole sentence next time...

"it is obvious that they tried to expand their income sources and came up with a less-than-bright result for it."

So the whole argument is: "we lack evidence for A and B, but C is evident and is compatible with proposition A"

They HAD the money and they invested it, so that disproves that hey would rather pocket it than invest it, thus if they didn't invested on DUST, that only left EVE and WoD to get the investment. Plus, investing in what gives you money is a sensible business decission.

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Rem. The idea that the directors would have absorbed 4 projects worth of company profit is just stupid. No amount of discussion or arguments about evidence is going to convince anyone otherwise. Companies reinvest. If they didn't invest in new projects they would be investing in getting more our of current projects. If a business doesn't reinvest, it dies.

Well, that's too bad about people who won't change their minds based on the evidence. There are other people that do that as well, cling to subjective validation and ignore any evidence that disagrees with them - anti-vaxers, conspiracy theorists, vegans... the list goes on.

Because the difference in profits for 2013 and 2012 clearly shows they have taken a hit to profits, while still maintaining a competitive income. Doesn't really matter whether anyone's convinced or not, the available data does not convince me, or anyone else with the capacity for rational thinking, that EVE would be any different were DUST not to exist.

It's not just Dust you realise? There's Valkyrie, WoD as well as the mobile apps Unifex is project managing.

The question is you want to have dust or WiS?

if you need to choice withs one? Keep dust alive or convert it to WiS in eve online?

My choice is to let dust die and use dust as a platform for WiS.

Wasn't Valkyrie developed as a 20% project? Because CCP devs are alloted 20% of their time to conceptualize and develop new projects, it isn't that surprising that there are so many projects being promoted right? Is developing software for platforms that do not yet exist risky? What is the word? Duh? But if that risk pays off, it tends to pay off in spades. As long as the 20% perk exists, we should expect more and more ideas to hit the deck. Instead of deriding them out of hand, I'd suggest we instead celebrate the hits and mourn the misses.

I get that some people would enjoy meaningful avatar interaction and they may have a point that the in-station engine could have been used to work out the bugs with Dust. I'm not a software engineer but it makes sense. If I were able to attend an in-avatar CSM town hall meeting, would I? Sure. Why not? But only if it could be raided by pirates who could kidnap, ransom, and/or execute everyone in attendance. Just like the risks one takes when going anywhere in public.

I seriously doubt that CCP is going to let Dust (or Valkyrie or any app) destroy its entire organization. They may shoot each other with guns, mow off each other's hair, and play sociopathic kamakazis in-game but I'm betting they have better business sense.

EVE, after all, is proof that they get some things right.

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#1 reason I want Dust to tank quickly:

I feel the potential but it's such a horror to play that I want to be able to completely quit it without fear of falling off the peak of skill and skillpoint curve. Either it has longevity or I'm wasting thought thinking of the potential.

This is about as objective reason as there is to be hating on it IMHO.

One has to wonder if Dust has done poorly because EVE players are vindictive and want it to fail, either because it's a PS3 exclusive or because they don't want CCP working on anything other than EVE.

CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2008: 5,532,343 <- CCP: "Bring us weed and hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2009: 6,020,872 <- CCP: "Bring us coke and high class hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2010: 5,482,264 <- CCP: "Bring us cheap booze and hookers!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2011: 8,817,262 <- CCP: "Oh yeah, we're rich! LET'S FART OUT DUST!"
CCP total comprehensive income for the period 2012: 4,597,556 <- Playerbase: "Ewwww, who farted?"