Laurion's Song: Only 2 Missions and 8 Raids

Lets hope the two missions are easily doable by the majority of group players. I am sure some missions get repeated over and over while others do not.

I burned out in ToV from it. Repeating the GD event in group missions and then Raids was just too much Deja vu.

I'm expecting NoS XP to still get nerfed though.

I understood just fine. You didn't understand me or you would know what you said is wrong.

Honestly its really hard to motivate myself to do any of them anymore.

After doing them over and over enough times to get a full set of type 5's its hard to go back.

Once upon a time the dev team gathered & decided that only having 1 or 2 people design raids really was not good for the game.

Then Absor was left to do it by himself.

There is a problem here & Absor is not the problem

Yeah I have no idea what the problem is but I doubt it has anything to do with him not being willing to teach anyone how to do them.

And group missions should be easier to do and we get only two this year.

I would like to trade Overseer, Alternate Personas and 3 updated UI windows that don't play well with every other window in my UI for (at the very least) the same volume of content I purchased last year. I am willing to pay the same price as last year, unless you are providing more content. If there is less content, it should go as unsaid, that I expect to pay less.
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The answer may simply be ....Time.

I am willing to bet that time is simply something devs have far too little of, it is not a big team, each dev has multiple areas of repsonsibility and I would think a big part of why EQ is so profitable is just how much juice gets squeezed from every dev, even if we as players feel like we get less game every year, individual devs are probably doing more now than ever.

But at some point there is a limitation on corporate-driven efficiency and you simply need more people to make a better product, I think EQ has been on the pointy end of that stick for a long time.

I am with you except on the UI conversion but for that I would have liked to see it go much faster. The older I get the more I really need a better solution for text size and such.

For group missions being less content it depends what the 2 missions we get are like. There have usually been missions I would do once and thats it while others I would repeat over and over.

If either of the two group missions are ones I won't want to repeat I may be done with EQ. At least as far as buying expansions.

The grinding part of the game for leveling better get better if group missions are on the way out.

Aye that is the most likely answer. And if a new EQ is being looked at the money for it comes from somewhere and possibly the initial work.

That's fine, you can continue to believe you have all the facts and that everyone is doing everything right.

I expect that some items being worked on is for the Anniversary 2024 I am hoping.

That isn't what I said.

How about copying and re-working the Nokk ogre anniversary mission to be always on and give LS currency?

https://special.eqresource.com/reetuktheinexorable.php

might have to bump it 5 levels.

Source please. Where did you here this?

It's common sense.

Many devs have made raids over the years.
As more experienced devs have left the company, they are replaced with newer devs.
Newer devs take time to learn how to do things.
Raids take the longest time to learn of all because they are the most complicated part of content to make. They can, and sometimes do, include all other aspects of game creation:

• NPCs
• Spells
• AAs
• Items
• Rewards
• Achievements
• Lots and LOTs of complicated scripting

It takes time for new devs to learn how to do these things.
It isn't always made obvious which devs make which quests, but if you know who made what, you can see how they get better over time.

It's just like any job, you get better at it the more you do it, and you can do more complicated tasks once you learn them.

The claim being made in this thread is that no one is being taught how to do new things, which is ridiculous.

Common sense is not facts. Please show the article or web link where this was said.

You need a semi dedicated expansion team. Instead of taking the revenue the expansion generates to hire people to create the content they just use the current team and limit the expenses related to creating new content by doing so. This is why every expansion gets smaller and smaller. Using current devs is fine but you really need temp developers to come in and take some of the load off.

I'm ALSO upset about missions, lol. I run missions daily throughout the year. I don't know why this is "garbage". People who only group constantly pipe up to say that their preferences aren't always the same as raiders. And that makes sense to me. Not sure why it doesn't to you.