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Directors' Chat - 2025 & Beyond (video format)
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First video-led variant of the Directors' communication: CCP Burger, CCP Okami, and CCP Rattati in conversation with CCP Swift, recapping 2024 (Equinox + Revenant + Havoc) and previewing the two 2025 expansions. Teases "expansion-flavour crystals" and the cryptic "T.O.I.S.F.A.F.S" acronym. Signals format experimentation - the cohort alternates between text-led Letters and video-led Chats from this point.
Directors' Chat - 2025 & Beyond
Background
Published 28 January 2025 as a video-led variant of the Directors' communications - CCP Burger, CCP Okami, and CCP Rattati in conversation with CCP Swift, in place of the usual text-led letter. The first time the cohort experiments with format, signalling that subsequent iterations may alternate between text (Letter) and video (Chat).
Key takeaways
- 2024 retrospective - Havoc, Equinox, and Revenant shipped as the second consecutive year of the biannual expansion cadence. Player achievements and "monumental clashes" framed as the highlights of the year.
- Two expansions coming in 2025 - not yet named at this point, but later landing as Legion (May 2025) and Catalyst (November 2025).
- "A path to healthy projection" - a phrase that, in retrospect, foreshadows Legion's capital meta retune (DD damage adjustments, supercap shield/armor extender penalty rollback, fighter salvo +50%).
- Cryptic teases - "expansion-flavour crystals" and "T.O.I.S.F.A.F.S" referenced without explanation. These lined up with Catalyst's mining mutaplasmids and (apparently) the Theaters of War / Solo Friendly etc. roadmap announced a year later.
Why it matters for returning players
Less actionable than the text Letters - more of a vibe-check on what CCP was framing as exciting heading into 2025. Worth watching if you want the conversational unfiltered version of where the team's heads were post-Revenant and pre-Legion.