Jita Park Speakers Corner

After the Quantum Rise expansion, subscription numbers have increased dramatically and stayed high.

source: http://jestertrek.com/eve/blog/2011/eve-players-exp-2.png

One of the major theme's of Quantum Rise was:

The staged delivery of the expansion began with the recent implementation of new technology such as StacklessIO and EVE64 which upgraded the server hardware and streamlined communication between server and client to reduce lag.
These improvements provide performance allowing for player vs. player battles with thousands of participants.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansions_of_Eve_Online#Quantum_Rise

Growth +30D +60D +Next
source: +18.5% +30.5% +24.7%

the status is somewhere between imminently deployed and figuring out what the hell coding is and why its important in compooters

thats not even trolling, they have no way to make a metric for "progress" in complete engine rewrites, because at any given time they might find out they have +/- 6 months of work than their estimate, giving ETC's on thsi kind of stuff not only gives US false hope, but leads to the kind of development mentality CCP is trying to get away from with the six week cycle (kinda like when your boss asks you how long til the project is done, you NEVER tell him "oh 3 weeks boss" because if soemthing goes wrong you either have to beg for more time and look bad in front of your boss, or put out something thats barely above concept and make your boss look like a chump to HIS boss, neither ends well, you just keep saying "working" and "Soon(tm)" and strong him along until your down to just polishing)

Legion and Valkyrie run on UNREAL, which is a licensed third-party engine with its own developers. There is a 0% chance that the team working on any aspect of CCP's in-house engine is spending any time on any game that doesn't use it.

they wont be viable products, theyll receive the same issues DUST did, in that "integration" will be what most people want, and in many cases what CCP advertises as "in the future", only for people to realize what CCP meant in DUST when they said "integration but both games completely unreliant on the others existence"

in other words youll just have 2 arena shooters competing with other similar arena shooters with bigger budgets, and their only gimmick being effecting a single unimportant percentage bar in EVE used by maybe 10-15% of the population

unless CCP goes full integration single-account for all (unsubbed accounts would still get access to Legion/Valkyrie), the games dotn have a good future, which means they wont be financially viable, which means more cuts at CCP, which means code projects will never see the light of day due to lack of people with training (because lets face it, they arent going to fire CCP shanghai for the DUST debacle, theyll just try making the same game for a THIRD time and hope for a different outcome)