Make a thread explaining CCP's goal for the game. I expect nothing less than one full post (6000 characters). Like this post when you do, so I know you have, I will read it, and if CCP confirms you know their goal for the game, I will give you 10 million ISK when I start playing the game again.

I'm not asking because I wish to challenge your comment for the sake of it. If you truly know what CCP wants from the game, then share it with the damn community. We're flailing about in the dark here. CCP goes on and ON about community feedback and how they treasure it, but how can we provide feedback that we know will be considered if we don't know where CCP want to go with the game?

For starters, what game genre is this? What aspects of FPS/RPG/MMO are we focusing on? What kind of content will we see 5 years down the track? What kind of game modes? What will our impact be on New Eden?

The answers to these questions should be a small part of CCP's whole 'goal' that you claim to know. I doubt even the CPM know.

The problem is that all of the things you're talking about sound like Pie-In-The-Sky ramblings of a stoned 14 year old. When the rubber hits the road, only 1 in 100 of their seemingly random "dude, it would be, like, sooooo cool if Dust 514 could..." even seem to be on their SOON(tm) timeline, let alone actually in the game.

They have delivered so little of what they've talked about in all of these blogs, keynotes, interviews, etc that if you watched/read all of that info before booting the game up for the first time (and with no outside knowledge aside from the nonsense the dev team spews) you would surely think you were being "punk'd" and that the real game must be hidden away somewhere else.

At the speed they're working at, it's going to take them 10 years just to get to where Dust 514 vaguely resembles the game they dream out loud about.

If the actual product is this far away from the product they sell us in their infomercials, then it follows that we would be interested to know specifically what their vision of the game is for say, the next few years.

I mean, frankly, most of what they talk about doing is obviously the sorts of things most devs would like to do. It's just most devs understand that most of these things just aren't yet possible, and require a MASSIVE amount of development time and hardware power. Just look at how they went from "1000s of maps and at least 64 vs 64 at launch" down to "ok...5 maps and 16 vs 16."

If they can't give us a realistic idea of what this game is going to look like for the next few years, and instead just continue to blow smoke up our collective ***es, then you have to expect the player base to get itchy ***holes.

You may not have noticed, but most of the playerbase already found the door. Pointing to it is just going to leave you standing in an empty room.

I understand software development is hard. Lots of stuff is hard. No one is forcing CCP to talk big and deliver small, that's on them, not me. If anyone should know how hard software development is, I would think it would be SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS. As such, your argument reads to me like just another strike against CCP, and another check in the "CCP Doesn't know what they are doing" column.