How did they fail in communicating this? It is at the top of the Dev Blog list, (the same one where you would go on the eve website where they always are). They prominently posted about it on their wall on facebook. CCP staff tweeted its arrival. CSM tweeted its arrival. I'm sure the next time they send out a newsletter, it will be mentioned there too. People are simply being ******** and raging about things without checking their facts first.

Rouge, stop hanging around all this depressing forum chatter and come fly with your corpmates again, we've missed you! I thought you had unsubbed and MIA until I saw your posting. If you have an account active (i'm assuming you do since you're posting), come fly with us :-) We're having just as much fun as we always have had....whether CCP or CSM has anything to say about it one way or another.

I dunno....an Evemail about a dev blog about minutes from a meeting, which was about a leaked bulletin, which was about content, seems to be a stretch. I think if most players don't care enough to read forums or peruse the website from time to time, they will most certainly be annoyed with information about information about information being dropped into their evemails.

I much prefer that Evemail be kept for In-game purposes only. I send a lot of mail that has to do with "important stuff" - which for me means diplomatic issues, corporate bulletins, marching orders, announcing campaigns, events, etc, and when I send a mail I expect my corpmates or friends to take a moment and read it. The minute that our Evemail begins to fill with out-of-game junk (which I would say an announcement about a devblog about minutes from 2 month old meeting qualifies as) than people will stop reading it and gameplay would be hampered.

Not promoting is not the same as hiding, so I hardly think you can say CCP is being deceptive. And let's face it - the playerbase is just too smart to be fooled anyways. This is the heart of this whole conflict - CCP has been repeatedly using run-of-the-mill everyday corporate business practices to navigate PR, spin, damage control, etc, and while it may work on everyday consumer masses, Eve players are the type who will crank out spreadsheets, flowcharts, and the like FOR FUN. Sifting through information and calling bullshit is something the players and the CSM have done a great job of, so I really don't think there's a lot more to the picture than we have already pieced together. It's all here for the grabbing.

In the end though, the fact that subscriber numbers have merely leveled off, instead of plummeting, is evidence that a great number of players simply take Eve at face value, log in everyday, blow **** up, and have fun without complaining, blissfully unaware that Eve "is on the brink of disaster". And as long as they keep it up, Eve won't be.

I, too, would love to see some of the much needed fixes and long overdue promises made good. I hate seeing CCP continuously promote stuff, than fail to deliver. It's almost pitiful. Winter brings with it a chance to turn that around, so in the meantime I'm just trying to enjoy what is there to enjoy.

At least now, unlike the past few expansions it seems that the Emperor has finally more or less admitted that he doesn't have any clothes, and there's every incentive for him to get his tailor in gear or to get a new tailor.......cause winter means cold. And no one wants to see a shriveled pair.