[Goodbye, friends]

1 hour ago, Xavven said:

I don't think so... This is part of regular turnover you see at every company. People have to switch jobs to advance their careers and keep their work lives fresh and exciting. You can only do the same thing for a living for so long until it gets too familiar and doesn't challenge you anymore.

Plus, look at what we're getting in patch 1.2. The new dev team has taken things in a new direction -- one the community has been asking for for a long time. Sometimes it's good when the old guard gets replaced with a new team with a fresh perspective and vision for the game.

In two years, when I'm done with my apprentice level project as a C++ developer, it may well be that staying with my current team and helping on "next project" will be a great option. Or it could be that moving on to something else will be an even better option. It is impossible to tell, just as it is impossible for those of us who are not close enough to the "inner circle" of KSP staff dynamics to tell anything except "Quite a few long-time team members departing."

Given that for many (all?) of them, this was their first job in game development, if not in software development more broadly, I'd say it is just as safe to speculate that they have maxed out their development potential and are moving on to greener pastures.

Wish them well, and wish the existing team well and hope the best for everyone and accept that what is going on behind the scenes is more than likely to remain as obscure as it ever was.

[Goodbye, friends]

Fare thee well fellow space traveler!