It’s clear that CG, historically, is not good at communicating accurately for a game that evolves constantly. Since Carrie departed, their messaging has suffered. Either they don’t truly have a dedicated communicator, or that communicator is unable to be effective because someone in leadership prevents the effective messaging or CG does not really want to inform the player base effectively. Regardless, i no longer assume anything communicated by them is permanent or assured. What really irks me is their lack of giving us expectation dates. Don’t tell me you are going to reduce the burden for R8 and R9 materials in the same notice where you outline new R8 and R9 required characters. It prevents players from planning and this game is not an impulse type of play if one wants to be competitive at the higher end. Sure many players never visit the forums and won’t know that the Profundity and Jabba are coming soon until the in-game announcement but for those that do visit the forums, it’s pretty clear we like timelines, deadlines for when commitments will be delivered. Then if CG does give a timeline, to either meet it or update us in when they will or if they are no longer going to meet the previous commitment(s).
