Since most of you probably don't read the council chambers, here's a courtesy head's up with the current state of things.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1167515#post1167515

It makes me slightly sad that a player has to tell CCP how to do thier jobs since they are getting paid to think the things you wrote in that post.

Thank for you keeping it real. <3

Bumping for great justice.

Also a short quip to you guys out here, what I do out here and what I do behind closed doors of the council chambers are two entirely different things.

Some good news to report

Holding out hope for 1.4, it will be the litmus test of the new release cycles.

If all goes well 1.5 should be the first release largely presided over by CCP Flying Scotsman, I have faith in his ability to get things on track.

To any CCP reading this, I'd like to reiterate the CPM statement; we're here because we want the game to succeed. Let us help you figure some of this stuff out!

Whining resulted in lip service?

If CCP actually wants to do this right then they can start with a simple schedule for how information gets released to the public

- Within the first 2 weeks of content lock, dev blogs are released accounting for the major changes that will be taking place in the upcoming patch. Any change to player assets will have the stats listed out.
- The beginning of the 3rd week will see the release of the full patch notes
- The third and fourth week will be a mix of discussing possibilities for issues with the new changes as well as providing information on general things that will be going into the next patch.

And for god's sake, use the community team properly. They should be the bloodhounds for CCP marketing to understand what trends are taking place with their customers. They should be reporting to the team what hot-button topics would be good for the developers to give some feedback on so the community feels like they are being listened to. They should also be setting up and managing a FAQ (or in this case, FAQQ) section that shows what the major topics are and the developer responses are to them.

Something like this:

Issue: Hit detection not registering for X% of fired shots

Developer Note: We are currently looking into this. Right now, we think that it is being caused by ___________ and we will require some further time to see what the root issue is.

Priority: High
Timeline: TBD based upon finding root cause
_____________________________

Issue: Unfinished racial suits

Developer Response: We are currently waiting on __________ and ___________ to be finished so that we can begin testing on our internal server. Main issue is making ____________ worthwhile to give diversity and reason for using different suits

Priority: Medium
Timeline: Expected late Q4 2013. Dependent upon internal testing

As a professional marketer, I fail to understand how simple stuff like this is overlooked by the marketing and PR team in CCP. Given the state of things, Im surprised the CMO still has his job.

YOU MEAN A ROADMAP.

Like SOE and Planetside 2! Yes it would be good for ccp to do alot of things like ps2 has, but will they? No.

They seem to not care what anyone has done before. That is why they have failed so many times with there rediculous systems.

Since most of you probably don't read the council chambers, here's a courtesy head's up with the current state of things.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1167515#post1167515


EDIT:

Some positive followup news to share here.

A bullet pointed roadmap has never been CCP's style. They throw goals on the table and try to pursue them but they always been vague goals mostly containing 'experiences' they want to create and rarely the features that makes that experience possible. Rarely has it ever included Gun X, Ship Y, Map Z which allows those content to get done and done proper, there have been plenty canceled ship classes before and thank god those were not on the roadmap you have fishing and moaning players asking where'd did those squadron frigates go? where the corvettes? Where's my MTAC? As long as CCP keeps it mostly vague and under the stamp of Soon(tm) they can get away with quite a bit of things without over upsetting the players. Though some features are constantly still asked for by the CSM/CPM despite realization of the feature not being feasible at the time. The most accurate maps you are going to get from CCP are probably... half life of a patch cycle. So in our case 4 week roadmap is the most accurate you're going to get and at that point might as well show you guys the patch notes which unfortunately just got some trimming because of QA.

This is one of many massive complaints about SOE's own roadmaps and its beginning to start topping their complaint lists. Where's this feature? Why was the negatively voted roadmap item done first or at all? Why was this delayed? What did you guys worked on that feature it wasn't on the roadmap at all? Had SOE done it eve style people would be asking about the flying aircraft carriers right now instead of bitching when's the next map.