It was Election Day and Veterans Day for them this week. It's still weekend. The next 5* release is on the 17th.
yea its on the 17th 5 days away you would thought you would knew who it was what powers they had and what other 2 5s would been in their store. but i can wait
They usually reveal who the 5* is on the week of their release, which should be 14, 15 or 16. Anyway, it's going to be Wakanda related.
@HoundofShadow said: It was Election Day and Veterans Day for them this week. It's still weekend. The next 5* release is on the 17th.
Honestly insane that this is some kind of valid excuse. The last update to this thread was over three weeks ago. How does Veteran's Day, which is a one day holiday, prevent the thread from being updated?
I have to be careful because I got a warning last time for making fun of the development team but this amount of time is quite something. Is there any activity over on discord or any of the other ones? They seem to favour them over the official forums.
@nixed said: @HoundofShadow said: It was Election Day and Veterans Day for them this week. It's still weekend. The next 5* release is on the 17th. Honestly insane that this is some kind of valid excuse. The last update to this thread was over three weeks ago. How does Veteran's Day, which is a one day holiday, prevent the thread from being updated?
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AND they had plenty of time BEFORE this week to update. The last update was 10/20/2022 for crying out loud. At this rate, we'll know what happened this weekend... 3 weeks from now.
I don't think we should be getting torches and pitchforks out, but most US businesses don't get either of those days off.
I just saw that even though the last update was in late October, the update lasted till 8th or 10th November. Talk about impatience.
Wait for next Tuesday, shall we?
@HoundofShadow said: I just saw that even though the last update was in late October, the update lasted till 8th or 10th November. Talk about impatience. Wait for next Tuesday, shall we?
@HoundofShadow said: I just saw that even though the last update was in late October, the update lasted till 8th or 10th November. Talk about impatience.
It is 12 November now in US (13 November many other places). So they are already two days off of the last event posted in the update. Something that had been going smooth for years suddenly has issues? I think it's fine if people would just like some communication, even if the communication is when an update can be expected.
Believe it or not, some people actually plan where they spend time and (more importantly) money in this game based on what is coming up in the events.
In the latest October Q&A, the dev did mention two things:
1) they are busy with holiday content for the next 1.5-2 months. 2) they'll try to update What's New thread every Tuesday.
I'm not sure if it's necessary for them to repeat these biweekly or even weekly.
If players need to know what happens two weeks in advance (subjected to last minute changes) to plan around playing MPQ, then I think they need to chill.
You'll get your update when you fix this damn door!
Come on. The community manager isn't busy working on the game. There's really no reason to not update this, all it takes is a look into the database where they store the upcoming events, not some voodoo that requires hours of dev time.
But if it isn't sure what events and how the characters are going to be rewarded, then to update the thread is pretty useless, don't you think?
But they MUST have this planned out at least one week in advance? That's why the weekly update interval makes sense.
Actually, no-- a preview thread is only useful if the info is up before the event goes up in-game. (Because at that point, we can just look in-game). "8th or 10th" is not when the info would have been useful. Preview in-game usually comes online a day or so before the event. So, the info would have been useful before the 7th.
Edit: And in fact, where do you even get the "8th to 10th" thing from? PvE goes to the 3rd-8th (so useful update = before the 2nd), PvP goes to the 2nd-5th (so useful update = before the 1st). We're about 2 weeks behind.
But yeah, it's not like we can do anything else other than waiting for Tuesday. There have in the past been instances where we had the preview thread fall behind in times of high stress. I'm hoping they'll find back to their usual balance again soon.
Given that updating such thread promptly is neither important nor urgent, this will happen again in the future. If you ask yourself this question, "What's the impact to the game if this thread isn't updated promptly?" The answer is there is zero impact to the game. If you want to squeeze something out of it, then at worst a small group of players will have their plans affected.
The 12 hour or so preview is sufficient for majority of the players. I only start planning 30 minutes before the next pve is up.
@HoundofShadow said: Given that updating such thread promptly is neither important nor urgent, this will happen again in the future. If you ask yourself this question, "What's the impact to the game if this thread isn't updated promptly?" The answer is there is zero impact to the game. If you want to squeeze something out of it, then at worst a small group of players will have their plans affected. The 12 hour or so preview is sufficient for majority of the players. I only start planning 30 minutes before the next pve is up.
@HoundofShadow said: Given that updating such thread promptly is neither important nor urgent, this will happen again in the future. If you ask yourself this question, "What's the impact to the game if this thread isn't updated promptly?" The answer is there is zero impact to the game. If you want to squeeze something out of it, then at worst a small group of players will have their plans affected.
I disagree with you. Routine updates are important and others agree based on the posts here. Spin it however you want, but there have many days when it could have been posted even with a holiday one day last week.
Congratulations on planning 30 minutes before the next pve. That’s when many are doing final clears. I would have imagined you would be too.
Update posts are very helpful for various reasons. Is the next 5* leaving latest legends featured one last time for the shards needed to champ or do you keep pulling? What 4* are upcoming? They may be the shard target for some. Knowing who is coming lets them add or remove the favorite designation. Some may need to move supports to the new boosted list. Others may be considering playing up or playing down based on the event and boost list.
Updates and communication also show a level of care/appreciation between developers and the community. This new team had been very, very good with communication but have not been in contact much lately (almost anywhere including Discord, Reddit and here).
Do I need to chill because I would appreciate some timely information? I don't really think so. I'm not demanding they do it or stomping my feet or threatening to quit. But I can certainly express my concern that the number of updates has really slowed down.
As mentioned above, they certainly could be busy working on other things. But it takes about five minutes to login to the forum and provide some information.
The dev team knows you love them. You can take a break from defending their honor.
Always appear this discussion again, and always I say the same: I don't need any info type outside the game, so I want all the resources for the game and not for to update this thread. Even on the godboost week I realize the characters when they appear the first in my roster. The anniversary was amazing isn't it? Well, but it claims a toll. What it cannot be is to always ask and ask until the infinite and beyond. This thread is not relevant so it hasn't priority. That's the real truth here, in present and on future days, sorry about that.