Several members of the WoD development team told the Guardian that this early bump in the road was exacerbated by extreme disorganisation on the part of CCP's Icelandic management. Very shortly after initial development began, the company started blurring the lines between the World of Darkness and Eve projects.
Repeatedly, staff were shifted over from the former to work on expansion projects for the latter. At times, our sources say, the entire WoD staff was put onto Eve, particularly during the development of 2009 add-on Apocrypha.
..."There were plenty of developers who would get redirected to create Eve content for three to six month cycles. During these times, World of Darkness development was significantly slowed down. I remember the upper management often exasperatedly trying to figure out what to do with the remaining staff for a six-month period while their artists and programmers were busy elsewhere."
...This constant yo-yo effect contributed to a development cycle in which planned features were partially completed and then dumped numerous times over. There seemed to be no clear vision on how the various parts would create a cohesive end product. Sources report that, over the nine-year period, the game effectively reached alpha - the stage at which all the major features have been implemented - three times, only for each version to be scrapped.
