[PSA] SOE is working on optimisation, not new content - stop whining!

The game is by now over 9 months old
Your opening post might had been relevant back in February

So ? doesn't matter how old a game is , just depends how good it is .

None of what you mentioned is really objective based.

In fact you make the game sound rather depressing as a grind only game with no content at all!

In fact what you are saying is play battlefield since its better at all of what you mentioned

At first people complain that all the devs do is release 1000 cert/700 SC weapons instead of fixing the game's performance and when they do go about fixing the game's performance they complain that they aren't adding new content...

Soooo.... you'd all rather SOE kept adding more and more shiny new helmets, different weapons, more clown camo, more flower decals and continue to allow the optimisation to fall and fall until the game becomes so unplayable they have to bin it???

Sounds like a good plan.

This actually concerns me... a lot.
Its not just "needs some serious work" or even "bad"... but unacceptable? And this as an official statement?
How the **** did they allow to even get here?

Because it is unacceptable , im glad he knows it too .

Once the game is optimized it will bring the game back to life , its important they do so before anything else .

1) I'm pretty sure that their current team is significantly smaller then it used to be. 20-30 people at max I would assume.
2) It's similar to lattice impementation - they need to fix the core of the game before adding more content.

I do understand optimization and I welcome it, but how about you optimize the game THEN you release it?
Higby said (in late beta I think) that they wont be able to optimize the game much better and that multi-threading will be as limited as it is and they cant do much in this regard.

There you go, my opinion on what you just said.

Class updates, gameplay overhaul hello. Although i'd like more pistols, never enough pistols

That's because games like that were competitive at heart and focused on gameplay, not unlocks and endless pubfarming.
There you felt like you really were dueling against another person, not just grinding the mills 'til more XP points pop up on the screen and that's what made them so fun and enjoyable.
Only place in PS2 where you seem to find some of the same competitiveness is in the air, but I'm not the best of pilots nor am I interested in spending the time and certs to become one. I'm more of a sucker for Shooters than Flight games.

This game has content but shallow gameplay so it gets boring and repetitive in the end.