Work In Progress Mid-Year Development Update: Announcing Large Content Releases, Open Episodes, and Summer Plans

please make scraps acountbound/tradeable, aswell as gear and generator mods.... pls!

Um? Nope, monthly content just didn't feel like a rat race. I could take my time and get everything done at my own pace. Monthly content felt rushed and generic.

U understand water was announced a year ago and we were told it was going live in 2016 and now its been delayed again for what looks like another 6 months with gear and style unlocking and alternate progression. And mepps stated months ago the other movement mode variants are not being developed. Idk how people are missing that a lot of features that were announced this year are not happening this year or maybe not at all.

It's not just about that, Monthly content DESTROYED all diversity in content, not just about difficulty balance, but also talking about open world, more than 1 alert per cycle, more than 2 raids per cycle.
It's better to not have anything to play for 4-5 months, than have trash content for another year.
Progression is yes, one of the most stupid things and got even worse with monthly content, but the lack of diversity and balance, also the bugs and delays to release a episode makes monthly content terrible.
With quarterly content we aren't "forced" to use replay badges, it becomes something more optional, you may still need to use them if you are unlucky, but in most of the cases you don't, since you have at least 2 raids to get gear from, and they may still implement the elite alert in quarterly, bringing more diversity.
Ofc you won't be playing 24/7, neither you do with monthly content, but you'll have things to run DAILY instead of a single solo/duo and will have the raids to run weekly.
The best thing isn't progression change itself, it's all about the content, the quality and the diversity.
Most of us who wanted monthly to be removed, were tired of getting raid/duo solo/alert raid/duo, we may now see better large episodes than before, at least it's what everyone expects.

I see both sides of it, can only speak for my own perspective.

I used to spend money every month with monthly content. Now I spend 3-4 times a year. I like this new move much better for my credit cards sake.

The wait for it to get there might hurt a lot. But yeah this could get better. I'm a bit hopeful.

Those scraps are exclusive to the 3 month cycle we are in now and if we are going back to 3 month dlcs then we get all the gear at once with the dlc like before monthly content. Those masks and rings are meaningless. Especially since when ep26 goes live u can buy the vendor mask in episode 25 and vendor rings with episode 26 and still hit top cr which will be 175. So....fail.

water power...cough....cough

People need to get it into their heads RIGHT NOW that nowhere in Mepps' announcement do they say that they're going back to quarterly releases. Nowhere.

The devs have, in fact, just given themselves carte blanche when it comes to timelines for creating content. No deadlines, no schedule to meet. Just 'It will be done when it is done'.

As it stands, it will be at least 5 - 6 months between Episodes 26 and 27. But they could take longer if they wanted for later expansions. 9 months. A year.

Prepare yourselves now for long waits, folks, because I don't want to see any whining from any of you later.

(P. S. There were also no promises made about the amount of content included. We may get one raid, two duos and an alert for all we know. They promised us no open world areas, no bounties, no daily missions, so please lower your expectations now and don't yell at the dev team when AFIII is finally released without whatever amount of content you personally think is necessary.)

"hey devs leave it alone". Least thing you could do is be considerate about the staffing now. After the turnover of soe to daybreak, a smaller team, I actually thought it was a bold move to release content monthly with a smaller team, something the soe team could've done better.

Daybreak has a smaller team, so let them take their time too specially on fixing stuffs.

And yeah, make alts, stop burning replay badges too. So called "freshness" of content is up to the community.

We shall see. We shall see.

raids should get lootlocks reduced on normal raids like: 1day for normal, 1week for elite, just like alerts... at least for legend members ^^'

might wanna take care of that cough, but i don't see water cancel, it's just coming at the end of this year or next year they still kept they're promise.

monthly rush has killed the quality of content as well as it has lead to gear chase. it must have an end...!

Lets just wait and see. I'm not that hopeful either. I'll at least give them their 17th chance.

They create these post and topics for us to come together to help them solve the issues at hand and all some of you do is attack other players and then these post get closed and than you players cry that they didn't listen and why should they if you going to act like you're the developer behind the game knowing that your just a player so stay on topic we need post open we need to be heard.

cough....serums...cough

Perhaps there is a new feat planned for Subscribers who stick with the game until Episode 27. This feat shall be called:

Back from the Lack

before 2016...dude seriously stop trying at this point, you're making yourself look bad, and we are going off topic.

But if a lot of players leave because there is no new content for 6 months how is there more people to play with? And that open episode thing is only 30 days. So for 30 days people can have all the content and get to end game. Even tho loot locks are twice as long so people might not be progressing as fast. But then the next 5 months? Where u would have to sub again and there is no new content? I just dont understand how that equates to more players.

I read thru this thread and dont understand how people dont see what is happening. Majority of the features announced for 2016 have been pushed to 2017 and could not happen well into 2017. And then there is a very large gap in new content. IIRC it will be the largest gap in the games history between new content. So i dont understand at all how people are saying they are impressed or this is brilliant. I just dont get it. No disrespect to people and their opinion. But i disagree and cant see how this improves things. Yes some of us wanted 3 month dlcs back. But we wanted the features that were announced if there was a gap going back to 3 month dlcs. Not sure why there has to be a long gap either but whatever maybe that is the only way it can be done. Almost every player i know ingame has said they will be taking a long break after reading this today. And that there is a chance they come back at the start of 2017 but if they find another game then they are probably done with dcuo.