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I approve of this new strategy

congratz indeed


edited: PS forgot to ask, is Hilmar Petursson taking a sabbatical ?

Looking very much forward to what this year brings, these latest expansions have been simply brilliant <3

There is no fullness without emptiness, and WiS is the Yin that balances EVE's Yang.

I have to say the new strategy does look really good on paper, the new flow chart gives everyone something to look forward to and must be a big hit in meetings. But it begs the question of how you will handle features that require large amount of man hours to release and can not be released in stages?

I'm using POS's as an example here. From everything we have heard a rework of them is a huge undertaking in terms of design and man hours. Previously a "team" would have been assigned to this task and worked towards it's completion as it's goal thus doing all the man hours at once then releasing the feature. Now under the new strategy it seems a few people will work a bit on a feature for an expansion at a time, building towards it's eventual completion at some not defined latter date. Won't this have the effect of dragging the development of features that need large amount of man hours out for literally years? It seems on the surface that a feature like POS's which the community has been waiting on for years, would take several more years to get even to a first roll out stage under this new strategy?

It also looks like it's going to have the effect of appearing that development has stopped on large features for a least a few expansions as new ground wok is laid for them by smaller groups of employees for multiple features. This may cause a bit of rabble from the community in an expansion when nothing completed is delivered. I really hope this works out, but these are a few concerns I can see happening.

More Apocrypha style expansions can only be a good thing. I may even actually wade through the CSM paper this time instead of just skimming it.

Apocrypha was the first splash screen I ever saw.

You were once a god amongst men. But when you dropped your pants and took a Hilmar on the modular POS you lost your virginal brilliance and became just another man.

Ascend again, Jon. I have faith in you.

I am also in the sizable crowd of those who are still very eager to see more done with avatars, interiors for meeting and socializing, and more ambitiously avatar game-play mechanics.

I really hope that CCP does have some concrete plans to continue and expand on this and that there is still SOME movement on it, even if it's going to be awhile to come to fruition.

Congrats on the promotions!

The themed releases sound great, but having not read the CSM minutes yet, I hope the idea of one big expansion followed by ~2 smaller and more focused releases on the same theme was considered at some point.

Small, controlled content is probably better and smarter, but it's cool to have some major (and not necessarily perfect) gameplay content from time to time, especially in a sandbox-style game.