Originally by: DaDutchDude

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Posting to confirm QEN has gone MIA without any explanation to my frustration, and I'm sure many with me.

Of course I can speculate at explanations, and I'm not claiming CCP has been picking their noses and doing nothing the last couple of months, but if a deliberate reprioritization has been taken place, communicate it. If not, then either fix the underlying problem or make the subconscious reprioritization a conscious one and again, communicate it. I don't want to have to speculate, I want a simple statement of the current state of the QEN in all honesty and with planning and thought to back up that statement instead of stating an intent that cannot be backed up by actions.

Is the marketing department too busy to write a statement? Here, I'll help you out and write the outline of a blog for you, based on my current speculation.

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The end of the Somewhat Periodic Economic Newsletter

As you've all noticed, the Quarterly Economic Newsletter has regrettably been less Quarterly then intended. We at CCP have had our hands full at creating all sorts of new yumminess for you players, while at the same keeping the game running as intended. As part of these ongoing operations, we also monitor the in-game economy to insure its stability and fair play for all players. This has (amongst other things) resulted in recognizing and handling the POS exploit of 2008, and said incident has made us ramp up our monitoring efforts.

This, combined with the CSM, has lead to a larger then expected work load for our in-house economist Dr.EyjoG and his team, and despite several additions to this team, their work load has grown faster then the resources we could throw at it. In turn, writing the QEN has been put on the back burner for much longer then expected.

Recently we had an internal discussion about the current situation, and we were faced with a choice to either hire more staff for our economic department or to cut down on their work load, and we have decided that for now, we'll go with the second option. This unfortunately means that the QEN will be no more until otherwise stated. I am sure many players will be disappointed about this choice, but I hope you all realize that this is better then not making a choice at all or leaving you in the dark any longer then you've already have been.

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I'm sure it could do with a polish left and right, but it should do the job fine.

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