The Faction Warfare Representative of the Council of Interstellar Management (CSM) was reportedly interrupted on the morning of September 6, during the Council’s morning session. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), the elected Faction Warfare official shared that a “big announcement” derailed a carefully prepared presentation on the state of Faction Warfare and solutions to re-invigorate the neglected game feature.

“I had made a Powerpoint presentation complete with charts, graphs, and spreadsheets,” the Representative stated, “All of which, I was going to use to underline the importance of implementing timer rollbacks, removing citadels from FW space, and revamping the new-player experience in the militias.”

After shaking off a short bout of nervousness and stepping up to the meeting chamber’s podium, the Representative had barely begun explaining the loyalty point tier system when CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson entered the room and brushed the Representative off towards a chair to the side.

Although the NDA prevents the Representative from divulging too many of the details of Petursson’s announcement, he stated, “It basically began with Hilmar making a so-called ‘big announcement,’ acting like it was the most serious thing in the universe. All that happened, it turns out, was that CCP was purchased by a Korean company called ‘Pearl Abyss.’ At first, I thought it would be one of those ‘I’m going to keep this short’ announcements, but instead, he had the audacity to start taking questions from the other CSM members!”

The questions fielded by CSM members ran a gamut of issues, none of which were directly related to Faction Warfare, according to the CSM Representative. “You have Steve Ronuken talking about financials, ‘The Judge’ asking about how developers would be affected, and Jin’taan saying he was excited that he would finally get to wear cat ears. It was insane!”

The CSM Representative went on to say that important issues that were scheduled for the time—including but not limited to—suspect timers for neutrals sliding FW gates, revisiting station lockout, and increasing the tier rewards to provide system-wide industry bonuses tied to system upgrade level, were completely unaddressed. After the meeting, the CSM Representative tried to regain control of the floor but to no avail.

“Everyone was too preoccupied with the acquisition to discuss Faction Warfare mechanics.” Breaking down into tears, the Representative concluded, “You have mass exoduses across all militias and Faction Warfare collapsing into disrepair. This was finally going to be the year that Faction Warfare got a balance pass! And Hilmar ruined it!”

Pétursson could not be reached for comment.