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Moorian Flav wrote:Soraya Xel wrote:It's false that Gunjack is a "priority" for Shanghai. It's a mobile game, it's pretty simple, and it was a fairly small team that worked on it.  Really? Rattati was last heard from in October here on the forums. Then in early November, Rattati tweeted (https://twitter.com/ccp_rattati) about the Gunjack release which was the last tweet he's sent. If Shanghai has not been working on Gunjack, WT* have they been doing since late November (especially as 1.3 was said to be almost done in early to mid October)?
Do you have a job? 
Project milestones are marked as projected expectations, but within that timeline any number of alternate projects, priorities, or short-fused "distractions" may (and often do) come up. I've never seen all-or-nothing in business. Sure, there may be the occasional focus on one single project depending on contractual obligations, staffing schedules, and windows of opportunity, but even then it's understood to be a temporary push.
Hell. Even when I flipped burgers as a kid, I was never "just" on the grill. I'd be on assembly, or up front on fries, or manning register when someone was on break, or mopping, or loading the freezer when stock trucks arrived. As a student, did you only ever just take math? Or just science? No, you learned time management to multitask and juggle several tasks at the same time. Not literally at the same time, but within a given period of time.
Oh. and what Soraya said. I agree. Most things have a gradient, and are not so black or white. At least that's been my experience. For whatever that is worth, if anything.
What was the topic again? Oh. Gunjack. Never played it but looks fun.
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Moorian Flav wrote:Quote:byte modal
Do you have a job? Evil
Project milestones are marked as projected expectations, but within that timeline any number of alternate projects, priorities, or short-fused "distractions" may (and often do) come up. I've never seen all-or-nothing in business. Sure, there may be the occasional focus on one single project depending on contractual obligations, staffing schedules, and windows of opportunity, but even then it's understood to be a temporary push. For your information, I work in software and when something unexpected occurs that will affect customers we notify them ahead of time so they do not get pissed off or otherwise. CCP obviously is not going by that model though.
I guess that's relative then. As I said, a gradient.
Do we have a timeline from CCP? Not being a smart ass. It's an honest question. I was under the impression that that was partly the reason for the silence, so as not to mistakenly suggest a deadline or goal that might not be met? So, yeah. Were we given a deadline? Is CCP really obligated to provide that level of insight to us?
Not saying I disagree with you, just playing devil's advocate here. Silence has pretty much always been CCP's model. Also, silence does not mean he's sitting with his thumb up his ass. Nor does the release of Gunjack mean he or anyone else for that matter has stopped working DUST or whatever other projects they may be floating that we are not aware of, which is sort of what the point of my post was to begin with.
o.O
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