With the benefit of hindsight, we can make our own roadmap of the past 8 months or so (for whatever good it does us). It goes a little something like this:

June:
E3 Beta Access Invites.
Adjustments to the SP system

July:
Remove Skirmish 1.0
Adjustments to the SP system

August:
Skirmish 2.0
Augustments to the SP system

September:
Ladders!
Add maps
Adjustments to the SP system

October:
Player Corps
Take away maps
Adjustments to the SP system

November:

December:
Stability fixes
Adjustments to the SP system

January:
Merge with Tranquility
Open Beta
Adjustments to the SP system

July:
Remove Skirmish 1.0

Worst thing they ever did


R.I.P Skirmish 1.0

Stay Tuned, we will likely get alot of answers:
http://fanfest.eveonline.com/en/default

The below is speculative based on informal discussions with developers, tweets, interviews, and blogs.
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I think this is part of the problem. Every once in a while someone comes out and seems to have about 90% more of an idea of what is going on. If CCP are communicating even half of what you said outside the forums how come we can't get a sticky post from the Developers about this stuff?

Something vague like "This is what we are trying to accomplish in the next six months" and just being upfront that not everything will be done in that time.

So read PS2s roadmap thing and tbh this is communication CCP
http://themittani.com/features/ps2-examining-roadmap
shows ppl what they can expect in the coming months and what u have planned

Aw man! They are gonna switch the game over to the PS4? I didn't know about that. I wasn't planning on buying the next console until the price drops.

From the sound of it, their IRC channel is their main method of communication - it seems the Forums are mostly a player feeback and chat tool, which is fine by me considering current in-game chat isn't nearly as good as it can be.

Iron Wolf's roadmap sounds like something CCP would do - IIRC it took about the same amount of time for EVE Online to introduce null space and full industry.
Following that roadmap, DUST seems set to act like a bubble blown inside another bubble - do what its predecessor did at about the same speed, and eventually fill the space that it's set in without bursting the "mother" bubble
Even if it's a little slow, that's exactly how this kind of game needs to go - nobody's done anything like this before, so they're making sure it's done right.

EDIT: that means that, right now, we're likely in an "experimental" design phase, where CCP is testing different paradigms to see which fits better before using it as a groundwork - likely how we wound up with such a vastly different Skirmish than originally designed.
That is different than technical work and bug-squashing, which is work that continues from the beginning of programming until the end of time.

A roadmap is long overdue.

There seems to be an excuse meme among the longtime CCP fanboi that it's not needed or impossible.

Sony clearly shows its not only possible but a key part of their customer communications and development process.

Do better CCP.

A roadmap is long overdue.

There seems to be an excuse meme among the longtime CCP fanboi that it's not needed or impossible.

Sony clearly shows its not only possible but a key part of their customer communications and development process.

Do better CCP.

I don't consider PS2's roadmap a roadmap at all to be honest and I quit the game because of it.

Also... The reason why some companies HIDE their road maps.

Competition.

Well if the only thing PS2 is going to do is add 2 guns, 1 vehicle and 1 map and further quit bothering in trying to make every faction more unique and address nothing...

JANUARY
January - SMGs
January - Rendering Distance Based on Threat
January - Spawn Room Tunnel System
January - Window Plugs
January - Tower Redesign
January - More secure spawn rooms at small outposts
January - Destroying the SCU only penalizes Spawn Timers
January - Creating "No Deploy" zones for AMS equipped Sunderers
January - Defender Only Jump Pads
January - Player Invincibility on Spawn
January - Experience Source Display Improvements
January - Experience Incentives

February
February - Empire Specific Rocket Launchers
February - Vehicle Update: Flash
February - Pump Action Shotguns
February - VR Training Area
February - Orbital Strike
February - Spectator Mode
February - Regional Empire Priority System
February - Loadout Screen Revamp
February - Community Grief Reporting
February - Daily Medals/Achievements
February - Account Level Unlocks
February - Increase the number of vehicle cosmetic slots
February - Separate Score from Experience
February - Improved Item Preview

March - Player Generated Missions
March - Implants
March - Class Revamp: Light Assault
March - Ragdoll Physics
March - Color Blind Support
March - Convenience Items
March - Improved Map and Respawn
March - Cert Screen Revamp
March - Tutorial
March - CONTINENT LOCKING
March - MAX Flamethrowers

April - In-game Mail
April - Gifting
April - Empire Specific Run Animations
April - Facebook/Twitter Integration
April - Outfit Recruiting
April - New Continent: Hossin
April - Interlink Facility
April - Vehicle Update: Sunderer
April - Common Pool Heavy Pistols

May - Class Revamp: MAX
May - Taunts
May - Voice Packs
May - Resource Revamp

June - Vehicle Zoning
June - Player Made Decals
June - Outfit Tournaments
June - Outfit Progression
June - Outfit Leaderboards
June - Outfit Base Capture
June - Supply Containers
June - Air Vehicle Passenger Transport
June - Improved Vehicle Deconstruction
June - Per Seat Vehicle Locking
June - Faction Pistols
June - New Vehicle: Buggy

lol

Pathetic.

Applies more boiler.

'The next 6 months of planetside 2 is marginal appeasement to the current generation of gamers while disheartening previous fans and nearly abandoning them. '

What you really meant to say is:

"I'm squinting my eyes to ensure I only see the things I want to see".

http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/6703/fefwefwfef.png

This probably explains where the full platoons went...

Today's peak login 9,981

Vs Team Fortress 2 at 53,407 players which is years old

Or Borderlands 2 15,000 players and that's a 4 player game, on multiple platforms and virtual stores. also approaching its first year.

Or Call of Duty MW 3's at 17,000 who everyone here can agree its strongest platform is xbox 360 and is already quite old.

Or Modern Warfare 2! at 10,000 still!

There is something absolutely wrong with planetside 2 at it's core and you're saying that every one of those features over the next 6 months is going to miraculously save the game?

The contents of the road map is nearly what I expect out of a DLC for Battlefield 3.

This is not like Dota 1 vs Dota 2 where Dota 2 overshadow its predecessor entirely and nullified every reason to go back to 1.

When planetside 2 is losing people to planetside 1 you got a major problem.

And the one game that was declared a sinking ship and abandon all hope has 5x more xfire players than Planetside 2. Star Wars the Old Republic. Why? Because they addressed the heart of the game's issues.

lmao

You do realize that Planetside 2 is available through other means than Steam don't you?

If a game of the quality of Planetside 2 numbers are so "low" then you might as well wipe your arse on Dust right now.

I don't think I've ever seen a more blinded fanboy.

Keep repeating "CCP are great....Dust is perfect....CCP are great....Dust is perfect".

Actually Planetside2 totally lacks "meta" or why you are doing what you are doing in context of the larger PS2 world. Battles seem pointless.

That is no excuse to ignore the pretty amazing technical work of the huge epic battles that PS2 has that Dust totally lacks.

It's also no excuse to ignore CCP's failure to give adequate vision for where the game is going.

The "meta" of Dust514 doesn't even exist at this point. We are all dreaming of some fantastical spot it's going to arrive at in some unknown number of months or years.

CCP has given very poor signalling of its intentions as to timing and scope of what they have been hinting at...

You posted STEAM stats for Planetside, spud!

Posts meaningless stats on a game that's available from more than one place as a means to show the game is dying and then says "duh" when he's shown that not everyone uses Steam to log in.

Is that you Dolan Duck?

You are just doing your utmost to obfuscate.

You aren't answering the question, a tactic I notice you are particularly good at.

Now, let's assume that Planetside 2 closes in 5 minutes. Whoopee...no one really cares.

How does that have anything to do with the fact that CCP are not doing a good job communicating with the community

Now, let's assume that Planetside 2 closes in 5 minutes. Whoopee...no one really cares.

How does that have anything to do with the fact that CCP are not doing a good job communicating with the community

Actually no, I have logically answered all of your questions with support evidence, you have stupidly grasped at thin air concepts such as the statement of Planetside 2 shutting down in 5 minutes. You're nearly breaking every bad rule in the debate book that wouldn't impress a business meeting.

As for your communications they're busy as hell as well as CCP's IA is still rather irate with the recent bad leak that the rest of the members are sworn not to repeat. Because of [CCP]Nullabor won't spill the beans on FW his project unless its approved by marketing, and [CCP]nothin today posted he is looking to see if the odd squad and odd size player battles work and from the general feel from irc conversations the server stability is their current focus. Lots of hamsters are getting sick or lost.

[CCP]Fame is busy as heck as well working with [CCP] Pokethulu (David Reid) on marketing which is why he rare talks to us.

At least he tries
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=507091#post507091

BTW this was a road map item since day 1 of public beta.

[CCP] Pokethulu > 'We don't want to have dust 514 soldier suddenly everywhere in New Eden and not explain them in the New Eden universe, so we are actually going to integrate the beta into the story line.'

I been predicting portions of the event for about 3 weeks now. Just got the location and 1 of the factions wrong.