To people who are angry about lack of "meat" in this devblog, let me just say a few things.

As a player, I want to know what's being worked on, and not just a "it's going to be ok" kind of statement (like I trust CCP to do things right ).
As a member of the CSM, I want to know what's going to be worked on as soon as it is talked about so I can give feedback before considerable effort is spent on something that's not going to solve our issues.

Those two things are what I'm unsatisfied about in this blog.

However, that being said...

CCP has had several problems in the past, the most notable of which has been a severe issue with direction of development. Planetary Interactions? InCarna? Both decent ideas too many resources have been put into without any satisfying roadmap or expectation of positive result. It's been mostly wishful thinking and the product of what we refer to as "team awesome".

CCP is currently taking a big step back from the crap and forward in the right direction. Following the forum rage, the dismal reception of incarna, the subscriber loss, they're effectively saying "let's refocus on what our customer want". That's quite big, and I can't fault CCP for taking a bit of time to figure out exactly in which direction that step should be taken. Which leads me to the 2nd point.

Having seen the way plans are made, I know CCP usually plans for more things that eventually make it to the release. Some of it is bad evaluation of resources needed to complete a task, some of it is the result of too high standards (lol art department), some of it makes sense as you want to overplan so if something goes faster than expected, you know what to spend your resources on.

Historically, whenever CCP has published a plan, instead of taking things with a grain of salt and being happy for the part that eventually made it in, people have reacted negatively to the things that *didn't* make it in. In that sense CCP Zulu's stance to underpromise and overdeliver makes a lot of sense.

The scope of the change is really huge, he said it, I say it. And CCP better be darn sure that what they're telling us is coming will actually be delivered (*wink* *wink*). If anything, this blog ensures that the next ones, the ones with the meat, have to show something we care about, because if it doesn't not only will we be facepalming at the content, we'll be raging at CCP's inability to comprehend what it is we want, despite the amount of feedback provided on the forums and through the CSM. So I'll be repeating what I said in the other thread. If they have to take 2 more weeks to figure out how to do things right, they should do just that, because at this stage promising something and failing to deliver it would be the worst move for this game.

We have another meeting with Zulu today, and what I'll be saying in essence is this:
- don't bring us shiny worthless **** that won't fix anything
- if you want to introduce new shiny, do it in a way that fixes existing problems (new shiny modular POSes, engaging sov mechanics, bounty/sec system revamp, use lowsec improvements to fix the "Crimewatch" system, etc.)

So, is this blog a missed opportunity for positive announcement, yes.
Do we need more information than vague statements, absolutely.
Is CCP's changing direction to go towards what we want a bad thing? Hell no!
That change is happening, we'll just focus on making sure it happens in the right direction.

Rage about the right things.

We are put in a position of weakness where we are the one expecting when the magical anticrap patch will be deployed.

The result of this is a refocusing and reprioritization on a scale unheard of within our company.

I can tell you that this is one of the moments where we look at what CCP does and less of what it says.

Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.

CCP Zulu does not need me having his back but I thought I would like to chime in on behalf of Community.

We know how passionate you all are about EVE and I promise that we are working towards delivering top notch FiS content over the coming months.

Spaceships are all the rage right now, seriously, watch this space.

Fake edit - No, this is not the next '18 months' but a promise to you that we are going to deliver cool stuff

Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.

Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.

So you're basically just a man-child, is that it? Grow up. Do your job. And take a class in customer service, ffs. Here's a hint - being a douche to your customers is counter-productive.

Plain-speaking is what is required at this point in time. Not your childish attempts at being an internet coolguy.

Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.

Oh, and to the rabble brigade:

It's spaceships.

Spaceships is what I'm referring to as focus.

Excellent PR and communication skills. Congrats.

...I promise....
... a promise...