So, pretty much everything that CCP talked about happening in 2013 last year, took feedback on, etc... isn't coming until after 2013 now. I'm bringing this up because it was two years of this kind of 'general idea of what we want to do in a few years but no actual plans now' that lead to the years preceding Incarna. Let me show you what I mean by that and you tell me if you agree.

• Walking in stations is critical to the future of EvE.
So, at some point in the future, we're apparently going to get establishments, right? Sure. And maybe the Jove will be playable. How old do you think the concept of WiS is? Check out this devblog from 2006. Over six years ago... still no good delivery.
EDIT: TO BE CLEAR - I'm psudo-quoting from dev interviews from when incarna was being developed. That was the line they sold and the implication I was angling at was despite the fact that CCP believed that WiS was critical they still didn't deliver. Apparently that wasn't clear in the OP.


• Well... the NEXT one will be like Apocrypha!
They've been pretty much saying that ever since Apocrypha. Looks like that's still the case... given the CSM minutes.


• I have an idea! Modular POSs!
Yah. 2006 is on the bananaphone again, and they want their modular POS's and ambulation prototypes back.

Now to be fair... Retribution is up there as one of the best expansions to date because it fixed a lot of broken stuff. To be fair to previous expansions though, it could have just as easily been an after-expansion patch to Apocrypha or Trinity. The teory I'm reading on the forums is that all this great new stuff will be revealed a month before the next expansion at fanfest. I wonder what is really going to be in it? Re-balancing? That's not an expansion. That's a line in the patch notes. I'm not sure if I'm just having a bittervet day or if I'm genuinely getting pi****... was kind of looking forward to POSs. Now I feel like an idiot because I thought that was going to happen.

Do you think we can count on anything coming up, or do you think CCP is going to just ditch their bold talk of an expansion that's 1.5x what Apocrypha was (CCP having said 'well we did Apocrypha in just 4 months and we have six now at the CSM meeting) for quick fixes and re-balancing this year?