Then, if the usage of the bug reporting system were consistent with its status descriptions, one would expect it would have been flagged as “Attached”, rather than “Closed”:
Attached: This report has been linked to an active defect.
However, I think you’ll agree the current communication practices make for an uneasy situation for the players who -despite not requiring a response per se- have to decide if the silence on CCP’s part (and the closure of a bug in this case) means:
- something which was overlooked, and perhaps worth bringing to your attention again;
- that’s a known defect we are tracking on a different tool and no further reports are required;
- that’s a known defect we have decided not to fix for now, and no further reports are required either;
- that’s no defect, but an intended change we decided not to include in the release notes.
The fact that, as I pointed out, the thread with the known issues for a given release may stop being updated by CCP after a few days, still listing bugs which were addressed in follow-up patches as existing, makes a strong case towards the first option. Yet in the latter two, one should adapt to the new situation and accept it as the new baseline.
Nevertheless, thank you very much for the clarification.