Magic: Puzzle Quest's New Development Team: Oktagon Games (9/27/17)

Steeme

HypnoticSpecter said:

@Brigby, you said 2 weeks ago tomorrow that these cards would be added into the packs in "about two weeks." This was after we received a message in our inboxes 2 weeks ago today that said the cards would be in packs in 2 weeks. Is that timeline still accurate, or should we consider this officially delayed? That would be discouraging after a specific timeline was given through an official communication. I realize you aren't in a position to make promises on behalf of D3 in these forums, but I think we should be able to at least rely on actual in-game communications.

If it is delayed, why was the two-week timeline given at all, if D3 wasn't confident it could be met?

Guy, please stop doing this.

Everyone begs for information.  Then when something gets delayed, or changes, you hold it against them.

Now you know why they don't expose information ahead of time.  And the vicious cycle continues.

HypnoticSpecter

"About" is fine, I can live with that. I assume all dates have an implied "about." Brigby's last post sounds like more than "about" though. That's what I'm seeking clarification on. "About" does not mean an indefinite delay.

bk1234

Brigby said:

tfg76 said:

Brigby , any news on when the bug limiting the number of HOU cards available in the vault will be fixed? Hopefully that´s a quick fix and thus will not be queued behind the Ixalan release.

TL;DR: Developers are getting used to new system in a short amount of time. They're making sure that adding new stuff won't break anything, before actually adding new stuff.

I unfortunately do not have any updates regarding this fix, because the development team's biggest technical challenge right now is making sure that the process of introducing new content can be successful moving forward.

I understand that players are very eager to see some fresh and new content, however there are hurdles the team must first overcome, since they're adapting to a new system in quite a short amount of time. Once the team has become fully acclimated with the system, then I will be sure to try and update players more frequently on development features.

Technically, I suggested old stuff. Can we have some old stuff @Brigby ??

wereotter

Brigby said:

tfg76 said:

Brigby , any news on when the bug limiting the number of HOU cards available in the vault will be fixed? Hopefully that´s a quick fix and thus will not be queued behind the Ixalan release.

TL;DR: Developers are getting used to new system in a short amount of time. They're making sure that adding new stuff won't break anything, before actually adding new stuff.

I unfortunately do not have any updates regarding this fix, because the development team's biggest technical challenge right now is making sure that the process of introducing new content can be successful moving forward.

I understand that players are very eager to see some fresh and new content, however there are hurdles the team must first overcome, since they're adapting to a new system in quite a short amount of time. Once the team has become fully acclimated with the system, then I will be sure to try and update players more frequently on development features.

I can appreciate their caution in wanting to make sure anything added won't break the game. However, these cards already exist in the game. I have in my card collection right now cards that can not be looted from packs and use those cards in events without and problems.

I admit there may be issues impacting this that I don't have knowledge of how it might negatively impact the game, but it would seem that adding the cards into the packs would give us fresh, new toys to play with which we already know work in the game as they're already being used. 

Krishna

Look on the bright side, you get a good crack at Omniscience in 9 days in you don't have it. 

HypnoticSpecter

I don't think that is a given at all. They haven't put out a new elite pack in months and haven't demonstrated any capacity to put together a new feature yet.

Krishna

sorry; you may get a crack at omniscience lol

shteev

Remind me what the odds of pulling a masterpiece out of an Elite pack are? Was it 5% for a 400j pack? So, about a 2% chance of getting an Omniscience?

Ohboy

I think it was about 5% for a specific masterpiece. 

Volrak

shteev said:

Remind me what the odds of pulling a masterpiece out of an Elite pack are? Was it 5% for a 400j pack? So, about a 2% chance of getting an Omniscience?

It's about double that.