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You kind of just did that, again...

You just made an announcement of an announcement, in a Dev Blog. Take a step back for a minute and think how silly that sounds.

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.

Honestly I would have rather seen no blog at all than seen that.

It's not confidence inspiring when all you say is "We're doing stuff because you asked us to!". The complete lack of even the lightest shred of details removes any credibility from your claim, and if anything it looks like a last minute stall post.

Look CCP, I don't claim to be the bittervet many other posters are, with only a few months of EVE under my belt (and a previous trial experience 2 years ago) I don't really qualify as the most jaded EVE player in the world.

But even I'm not so blind to see how hollow that post was. Most of us were expecting a "Big Update" this week. If this is that post, then, welp.

CCP's new release schedule is fine. It's what they've been releasing (and not releasing) that has been the issue.

As a former CSM and follower of this sort of thing, I've seen the "We hear you!" line used but not evidenced in later action. I will say this though, the TONE and SCALE of "We hear you!" is new.



That's new. It's long overdue (and always surprising it hasnt happened earlier each time i think about it) but if true and it's happening that's a very good sign.

I wont say I'm optimistic, but I WILL say I'm interested.

Well this is awesome. CCP really proves time and time again how amazing they are.

IBC, rly

This.

Came expecting information, left disappointed. About par for the course.

What the hell was the point of posting this vacuous dribble? I've seen Tea Party announcements with more intellectual basis.

Is there some sort of genetic defect in Icelandians that makes you allergic to Public Relations? Go hire some Americans to tell you how to post BS and make it look good.

Yeesh.

I have to say it would be prudent to learn from past mistakes and not decide on the details of this new direction wtihout running it by the CSM first.

I don't doubt that you have the best intentions, but there "has" been a tendency in the past to get enthused about something you are sure the player base will be behind 100%... but after the original good idea has been kicked around internally for a while the final proposition ends up missing the mark completely.

Just sayin' (in a hopefully tactful way).

I think that most will be pretty happy with a more equitable distribution of dev resources between projects old and new, internal and external to EVE. Especially if the resources devoted to iteration come up with a really well thought out way to solve major issues we have been dealing with forever. New shiney's have their place, and so does actually making Incarna interesting... but little things like making FW or PI or mining or SOV warfare worthwhile, interesting, and FUN should be the main focus.

We know you have committments elsewhere, but here is hoping that the heavy lifting on those other projects is done (18 months) and this refocus can happen without kicking them in the teeth.

We've been watching it since H1 2009.