I don't like the glacier analogy.

Glaciers move forward.

CCP appears to like moving laterally way more than in a forward vector.

Progress would indicate this game has gotten better since launch....so no.

Im just interested in one thing.
How our community see the CCP globaly, their progress, achievments through DUST 514.
And their care for customer.

By my side of view i really admire their visionary work on concepts/ideas and their customer service.
What i hate is no responce by devs, their secrecy and overal feel "like they don care"/"they are lost"/"they dont listen to us".

They care about US customers, that is why lags and unbalance exist. Done.

I just think it's strange that CCP can't or won't fix minor details that cause big problems (such as the recent tank speed fix). Such simple changes (10% vs 100% speed increase) should be ninja-nerfed immediately. It messes up the game to an extent that it's frustrating and will cause (newer) players to stop.

Something else I find frustrating is that CCP tries to balance with huge steps. We've seen the effect on swarm launchers (huge triple nerf last update), and we'll see it again with damage mods (which will be yet another nerf for swarm launchers).

Finally, I fail to see reason in some of the events. They tend to reward protostomping, as if it isn't bad enough. Some people here say it's to quickly gain data, but data gained under different circumstances will be pretty useless.

Im just interested in one thing.
How our community see the CCP globaly, their progress, achievments through DUST 514.
And their care for customer.

By my side of view i really admire their visionary work on concepts/ideas and their customer service.
What i hate is no responce by devs, their secrecy and overal feel "like they don care"/"they are lost"/"they dont listen to us".

The only problem with this game and CCP is that they think it's OK to make promises without delivering anything similar to those promises anytime soon.

CCP's progress has been somewhat stunted over the past 9-12 months. This is to be expected when you have an EP who for whatever reasons isn't able to deliver. Up until Uprising we were getting decent 3 monthly title changing updates. After Uprising a slew of problems cropped up that needed immediate attention.

At EVE Vegas CCP Praetorian said they knew the game wasn't ready for release but they had decided that DUST 514 ought to be made with the gamers so they released it. Uprising 1.0-1.7 brought mostly quality of life changes, some attempts at balancing an incomplete picture, some new suits, weapons and equipment and a vehicle overhaul. While we were still making some steps forward, the game in general suffered from stagnation. We played the same maps, the same modes in the same suits with the same weapons and desperately sought after features like PvE and NPE were left on the way side. PC is a fail but FW is somewhat better since the introduction of LP and the store.

Now that there is an executive producer at the helm I have full confidence that things are on the right path. Members of the CPM have stated that CCP has good reason to be quiet and that good things are coming in 1.8 and forward to Fanfest which promises to be the next big evolution of the game. CCP Saberwing said that the NPE is at the heart of what they're doing and Praetorian said that 2014 was the year of 'putting the MMO into DUST 514' and said PvE would come this year. I'm hoping that it was also Rouges directive to get racial parity in suits and I hope that we get parity in weapons, equipment, vehicles and turrets in the next few updates so CCP can finally properly balance things.

So yeah, it hasn't progressed at the speed we wanted but you can't expect amazing results during a change of management and if you can't acccept that then you need to skill into realistic expectations and expectation management then come join me in the real world where you understand **** happens and just enjoy the game for what it is while watching it gorw. If you can't do that, just **** off and go play a nicely polished retail game and stop wasting your finite time on earth in a constant state of butt devastation. it's pathetic to wallow in that ****.

No progress?

Things may be borked up with the weapons or what ever your current problems are but the game has gotten better and things have been added and some of those things were player ideas or came from feedback from the players.

5 minutes minimum just to log on.
5 minutes to load contacts just to make a squad.
Resets every third game and 5 more minutes to log on.
More suits
More weapons
More maps
PC
FW
Corps
ISK transfers
Fitting glitches that needed resets that took 5 minutes to log on.
Horribly crippling lag in every game mode.
Horrible hit direction.
The sounds are different but overall better.
Bland but looks better.
Better visual effects.
Better UI
Squad Finder
Better leader boards
Over all better performance

Those are just the things I can think of and yes some are borked up and yes there are some vehicles or maps missing but overall we have made progress. To think otherwise is an appeal to tradition. You may not be happy with the progress or agree with what was released or how but you cannot honestly say that there has been no progress.

As for CCP and their customer service, they do listen and do what they can to use our suggestions and feedback. CCP does reply to tickets and deal with them appropriately. Don't let frustration with how you think the game should be developed cloud what has happened and the progress we have made. Call me whatever you like but progress has been made and the progress made was player influenced feedback through the CPM and from CCP reading the forums.

I just think it's strange that CCP can't or won't fix minor details that cause big problems (such as the recent tank speed fix). Such simple changes (10% vs 100% speed increase) should be ninja-nerfed immediately. It messes up the game to an extent that it's frustrating and will cause (newer) players to stop.

Something else I find frustrating is that CCP tries to balance with huge steps. We've seen the effect on swarm launchers (huge triple nerf last update), and we'll see it again with damage mods (which will be yet another nerf for swarm launchers).

Finally, I fail to see reason in some of the events. They tend to reward protostomping, as if it isn't bad enough. Some people here say it's to quickly gain data, but data gained under different circumstances will be pretty useless.