Dear Jeto and dev team,
I know very well that the lack of answers on details about post 4.5 PQ3 means you have no information to share with us yet. Probably even you are in a similar situation to us, not really knowing how things will really be going forward after all the recent changes and therefore trying to avoid giving info and making promises without completely certainty.
However, a lot of players seem worried and uneasy about the lack of info on how the game will be after 4.5. It is clear that there will be no more new seasons, but this fact, the automation of adventures and the team taking on Marvel PQ suggest that there will probably also be a meaningful reduction in dev involvement in this game. This raises some questions that haven’t been answered yet, making a lot of players uneasy.
Therefore, here I will post the main doubts and worries I have felt from other players. I hate to add any pressure to you, but I do want to make sure you know that the current silence and absence of answers is making players worry and is hurting player motivation. The optimistic ones are trying our best to ask for patience and understanding, but the longer it goes on the worse it gets and more players quit. That is why any answer to the questions and doubts I will be posting will be really welcome.
1) Will there be festivals and date specific adventures?
We already have the new automated adventure calendar, which is great. But a common doubt is: what about festivals and date specific adventures (in the summertime, gongsgiving…). This is “old” content that is already in the game, so I believe it shouldn’t be too difficult to keep using it, even if it is automated as the regular adventures. Furthermore, now that we don’t have new seasons, the festivals may take part of their place as exciting time-limited events that break the monotony. So we want to know if we are going to have festivals back, really hoping the answer is yes.
2) Will there be new content, QoL improvements, fixes and other changes?
Without new seasons it seems that we won’t be having major updates. However, we want to know if we can still hope to get minor updates with QoL improvements, fixes, may some minor new content… I am not talking about anything big as the past reworks, but some minor changes as new offers (such as the thursday offer that was announced and we are still waiting for), adding some extra utility to a follower, including epic light scrolls in a replayable adventure. Mostly, we want to know if we can hope for the game to keep improving, or if it will be labeled as “finished” and will keep working with nothing new, just bug fixing and player support.
3) Will there be new achievements?
The last achievements were always tied to new seasons. Now that there will be no new seasons, will there be new achievements or players will have just the ones that have been released until now.
4) Feedback on the new adventure calendar.
After some weeks it seemed very clear how the adventure calendar would be: a non-replayable during the week, and a replayable during the weekend. Since there are 9 regular non-replayable and 9 regular replayable adventures, I guessed we would have a 9 week cycle. However, expeditions being during the week was a surprise. There are a couple of issues with the adventure calendar as we have seen until now that players don’t like. First, overlap days between the weekend replayables and the expeditions (we both know very well from past discussions how much players hate overlapping replayable adventures). Second, the expeditions being back to back (not sure about flametree, we will see) is definitely strange, it would be better to have them distributed along the calendar, instead of concentrated all together in a few hectic weeks (separated by a long time with just non-replayables during the week ).
As always, thank you very much for your hard work on trying to make this game as great as possible. The lack of new seasons is tough but I still hope that the game can slowly keep growing and improving.