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We live in interesting times; in fact CCP is the kind of company that if things get hairy they instinctively stall for time. That, they certainly have done this week. First of we have the fallout over Incarna, an amazing example of company resource allocation gone wrong. A vision from years ago that has been re-purposed to serve as a prototype for CCP's other MMO project. It rolls out a midst massive controversy, in some cases larger than what has been seen before, this is the pinnacle of community insults. For all the hurf blurf and :promises: we should all stand proud, years from now this is what people will remember.

But CCP have done more, not only have they redefined their level of customer disconnect with Incarna but they have also defined what it really means to fail at communication, both internally a la resource allocation and externally a la CSM.

Naturally, they have caught the attention of the world. Only a few months ago they averted catastrophe over Monoclegate and now they have done it again by committing to their core purpose as a company by managing expectations.

Currently we are seeing _very predictable feedback_ on what we are doing. Having the perspective of having played this game for six years, I can tell you that this is one of the moments where we look at what CCP do and less of what they say. Common sense takes time to set in and the predictable reaction is always to resist change.

All that said, I couldn't be prouder of what we have accomplished as a community, knocking sense into Icelandic alpha males is hard and we are doing it as so many times before! Stay the course, we have done this many times before.

Watch this space.

There was plenty of information, but apparently not the lines you were expecting to find.

Info> Over the past days and weeks, CCP has been doing extensive and intense introspection and revitalization.
Info> The result of this is a refocusing and reprioritization on a scale unheard of within our company.
Statement> These are indeed defining times.
Info recap> Torfi’s most recent dev blog provides some indication of what’s to come.
Info> We have decided, to focus our collective efforts on the areas you have asked us to focus on.
Info> We will reveal more over the coming weeks.
Statement> As certain details are prone to change, we want to make sure we have absolutely concrete information to give you.
Statement> You’ve often told us that we promise too much and deliver too little, and this time we want to be certain that doesn’t happen.
Info> We are listening to you, we have heard you, and plans are already in motion.

There was plenty of information, but apparently not the lines you were expecting to find.

Unverified Claim> Over the past days and weeks, CCP has been doing extensive and intense introspection and revitalization.
Unverified Claim> The result of this is a refocusing and reprioritization on a scale unheard of within our company.
Statement> These are indeed defining times.
Information Direction> Torfi’s most recent dev blog provides some indication of what’s to come.
Unverified Claim> We have decided, to focus our collective efforts on the areas you have asked us to focus on.
Validation of Previous Unverified Claim> We will reveal more over the coming weeks.
Statement> As certain details are prone to change, we want to make sure we have absolutely concrete information to give you.
Statement> You’ve often told us that we promise too much and deliver too little, and this time we want to be certain that doesn’t happen.
Unverified Propaganda > We are listening to you, we have heard you, and plans are already in motion.

Yea well...

It would be easier for them to promise somethingTM to make people happy and (maybe) deal with it later when same people think that soonTM time has passed.

I believe that zulu is really trying here, so lets at least give him fair change. I would be more worried if he had posted awesome blog with full of junk and tried to push it with impossible development timetable again... We all know where that road leads.

The right response would have been for them to have actually done something by now, other than talk.