A 10 year plan that includes several key leaders leaving (who have not been replaced to date), including the Executive Producer, and several complete changes to the development focus and schedule? No, there is no 10 year plan. There may be a 10 year budget, tons of ideas for features, but the plan is gone, even being generous by assuming it existed in the first place.

Did you just call the EP dead weight? Do you even know what that job entails?

It's not an opinion, those are the facts... do you even know the difference?

The development has changed radically several times in cadence, focus, and methods multiple times as direct responses to critical reception. Each time with a "bear with us as we do something new". This is not following a plan, it is the antithesis of long term planning to continually throw out the plan and start using a new one. It is crisis management, which tells of a complete lack of self awareness of the quality of their shipped features.

Several key personnel left, and to date no revealed replacements. The EP leaving is especially telling, he/she is essentially the "word of god" on what goes in the game, how it is balanced and monetized, and creating all high-level plans short and long term. Monetization especially has been one of the worst managed aspects of DUST. Even if you appreciate the gameplay, CCP has no intention or capability of running DUST as at a loss indefinitely. Uprising was the revelation that SP was how they intended to make their money. A short term solution, because the more SP you have, the less value a booster presents, and sales taper. Boosters falling off the top sellers list actually reveals there is NOT the necessary fresh blood to maintain sales.

It's not an opinion, those are the facts... do you even know the difference?

The development has changed radically several times in cadence, focus, and methods multiple times as direct responses to critical reception. Each time with a "bear with us as we do something new". This is not following a plan, it is the antithesis of long term planning to continually throw out the plan and start using a new one. It is crisis management, which tells of a complete lack of self awareness of the quality of their shipped features.

Several key personnel left, and to date no revealed replacements. The EP leaving is especially telling, he/she is essentially the "word of god" on what goes in the game, how it is balanced and monetized, and creating all high-level plans short and long term. Monetization especially has been one of the worst managed aspects of DUST. Even if you appreciate the gameplay, CCP has no intention or capability of running DUST as at a loss indefinitely. Uprising was the revelation that SP was how they intended to make their money. A short term solution, because the more SP you have, the less value a booster presents, and sales taper. Boosters falling off the top sellers list actually reveals there is NOT the necessary fresh blood to maintain sales.

lol?

1.5 is what? Fixes to fixes basically, with minor "new" improvements coming from the team that's mainly in charge of PC mechanics. Firing people had NOTHING to do with how often updates are coming lol...what a short sighted, ignorant view.