[ajacksified]

I'm a (retired) director of one of the larger corps in EVE, and I've been discussing the points of contention with members today.

Most of it stems from the fact that those rioting feel the prioritization of the walking-in-stations expansion and the addition "vanity items" is poor judgement. There are bugs, missing features, and new changes that are viewed by the rioters to be of far greater importance than the time spent on this latest update.

There's a semi-offical "voice of the riot" here:http://eve.beyondreality.se/NeXCQResponse.html

And CCP's response here: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=932

[ajacksified]

And now that you've read that, I'll keep my opinion separate: I think the riots are out of line and unnecessary. CCP does need to do a better job at addressing the complaints (requests are listed here http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/November_2010_Prioritizati...) and explaining their prioritization... but I think the riots have trouble focusing on the real issue, which is simply communication.

[protomyth]

Going by what CCP said, their internal newsletter really is a collection of position papers not necessarily reflecting the true views of the authors. This is much like internal position papers to a political campaign (argue the other guy's side so we can hone our argument). That is truly something I would not want leaked and could cause some serious damage.