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[Silas Vitalia]

I might be wrong but we are well into announcement neighborhood for winter expansion, yes?

Do we have any conjecture or anyone with knowledge willing to chit-chat about what's on the horizon?

Is a promised expansion land of sweet gameplay milk and PF honey to soothe us on the way?

Or are the cracks starting to show and we are about to be proverbially pooped on with nothing but more stat juggling and no new gameplay?

[Anslol]

Isn't stat juggling what people were bitching about all the time though? Ugh, the screaming ranting bittermajority wins again this expansion I bet = =

[Silas Vitalia]

I'd posit that balancing should never be an acceptable substitute for new content.

[Anslol]

Trust me I agree. But the masses kept yelping 'why are you adding new content when you need to fix 34982756 useless things I unsub my 21 accounts until you do cause i like numbers and not fun!'

Fuckin' elitists man...

[Lyn Farel]

Hey, i'm a bitter elitist and I don't agree with them

We need a healthy dose of both. But anyway people will always find a way to be unhappy. Eve is not special when it comes to niche stuff with a lot of bitter elitists.

[Makkal]

Marauder re-balancing and... that's it.

I guess spring 2014 is where the magic is?

[Silas Vitalia]

Someone might be able to enlighten me but I was always under the impression that 'balance' teams were separate from 'design' or 'content' teams in the company.

IE the guys twiddling the numbers for balance are not the guys making new code for features.


OR as some have said, the lights are on and no one is home (they are all off writing content and making stuff (tm) for other CCP projects)?

[Lyn Farel]

The guys twiddling the numbers in a database remain gamedesigners, not programmers. Unless there is something seriously wicked somewhere...

[Anslol]

Wouldn't be surprised if they're working on other games or have been reassigned to help move numbers in the data base. Then again, Odyssey WAS a cool content addition, I must say. Maybe they have epic things planned? Who knows....no really who here WOULD know lol.

[Makkal]

Someone might be able to enlighten me but I was always under the impression that 'balance' teams were separate from 'design' or 'content' teams in the company.

IE the guys twiddling the numbers for balance are not the guys making new code for features.

OR as some have said, the lights are on and no one is home (they are all off writing content and making stuff (tm) for other CCP projects)?

Or it's possible that whatever they're working on won't be ready for 2013 release.

[Silas Vitalia]

I never understand with these companies why they just can't say these things.

'hey we are working on x, y, z things to come out in x, y, z release dates'

That way people don't think nothing is happening

[Saede Riordan]

I'm really hoping for more starbase iteration, and more scanning and hacking iterations. More stuff for wormholes plz plz.

[Anslol]

I never understand with these companies why they just can't say these things.

'hey we are working on x, y, z things to come out in x, y, z release dates'

That way people don't think nothing is happening

The problem is the audience seeing it. More shitstorms, more bad PR, and more shit slinging.

"I PAY A SUBSCRIPTION I AM OWED A RELEASE EVERY 6 MONTHS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU I UNSUB" etc, etc.

[Katrina Oniseki]

Ever since Incarna, CCP has been terrified to release new features and is focusing on iterating existing content. Well folks, this is iterating!

Have fun with it. Hope you're all happy.

[Makkal]

Are you a bittervet now Kat?