Ex-Trion SVP David Reid joins CCP for DUST 514

Wont be on PC for another year..gfy's

Hopefully now CCP will actually have a half decent marketing direction.

That is if he stays away from crap like the not in Azeroth campaign. They say all publicity is good publicity and that's something i doubt very much. That ad campaign was pretty bad, the nail in the Trion's coffin for me personally.

But he's David Reid, i'm sure he can do something cool with the cross platform-cross mmo-cross genre idea.

yuck

how come every second public guy are called reid nowadays?

APB's (original) was something about reid,
Sw:TOR are reid
DUST are reid now...

While I'm not a fan of the "we're not in Azeroth anymore" campaign, it certainly got people talking. Hopefully, whatever ad campaign comes out of this produces the same results, but through a different method.

Only part I cared about:

"and Gamasutra reports that he'll also shape the publicity strategy for CCP's upcoming World of Darkness title."

Nice to hear -something- about WoD, no matter how small to give a glimmer of hope (also however small).

This is very good news. RIFT had an incredibly successful launch. As a fan of EVE, this makes me eager to check out DUST.

I cannot stress enough the (relatively shorter) lifespan of console games over PC games. Dust NEEDS to be on PC as well as PS3. Otherwise Dust will not survive its first year as a supporting feature of EVE Online. My worst fear in all of this is that Dust will not live up to expectation and be quickly forgotten in the next wave of FPS games to follow it. Leaving EVE Online player with planetary warfare mechanics devoid of soldiers to fight. Much like faction warfare in EVE now. A side thought project that ended up ultimately forgotten/ignored by the players.

The only chance Dust has to succeed is if they release it for PC within a few months of the console release. If they don't Dust is going to fail badly.

Jumped. Ship. Before. The. Crash.

Smart guy.