Just to clear this up, none of the CCP staff we've ever engaged with have had any problems with English. The management of the Shanghai studio is almost completely made up of expats, and English is the required operational language spoken inside the company.

Good guess Regnummyummytummy - but unfortunately this goes deeper than anything hiring some translators could fix.

Leading up to the meeting the situation and attitudes seemed fairly grim. CCP's openness and honesty during the meeting was a breath of fresh air to say the least. I'm personally feeling much better about the situation, but again it's going to come down to the actions that are taken. Words will only take us so far.

I did get the sense that CCP genuinely cares about both the community and the opportunity that the CPM represents to facilitate community interaction. There is a reason that CPM0 is in many ways a "beta" council in that many of these processes are being and will continue to be iterated.

I think that the real signs of actionable progress will be in the charter, which I'm happy to see will help to put us on the path to player elections and begin to lay the foundations for CPM1. Seeing a path through the fog where we actually have a foundation of communication with CCP laid that will allow for meaningful player representation has given me a much brighter outlook on the situation.

So has this charter been finished yet?