Can someone from devopment explain why Eureka was delayed for so long?

[Kaonis]

From my perspective, I just wish SE would say something. The deafening silence from the development team is a terrible look, and is just causing the Eureka-related unhappiness to fester. We shouldn't be having to guess as to why Eureka took so long to develop; we shouldn't be having to guess as to why on earth SE thought 'third time's the charm' for Diadem-style content. This is something they should be explaining to us, and generating a true dialogue about with the community. As I said in my previous post, we're a very understanding bunch; but nobody is going to stick around forever if they feel their opinion isn't even being heard.

While I'm waiting for a lengthy write up by Yoshi-P, at this point I don't care as much on what they will say to quell the rage and explain why they thought this level of content was acceptable. I only care that they come out with why Eureka (and to en extent Diadem and a lot of the rest of the game) is in such a shallow unimaginative state, and most importantly what they plan to do moving forward.

We're 2 expansions in and nothing new or substantial has been released outside PoTD, which I consider the bare minimum of what something new should be. But everything else is the same formula ad nauseum. Any attempt at "new and innovative" content is anything but new and innovative. Then we get things like LoV which are baffling and nothing anyone asked for, and needlessly complicated (seriously, make it a spawn minions and tower defense game and it'd be simple, easy, fun, and most of all not a big waste of dev time). Meanwhile it feels like so much dev time is wasted trying to fix the mistakes of ages past. Housing? Patch after patch to deal with it being poorly implemented in the first place. Diadem 2.0? A failure and another waste of time to try and fix something they could have just gotten right in the first place.

[Vhailor]

While I'm waiting for a lengthy write up by Yoshi-P, at this point I don't care as much on what they will say to quell the rage and explain why they thought this level of content was acceptable. I only care that they come out with why Eureka (and to en extent Diadem and a lot of the rest of the game) is in such a shallow unimaginative state, and most importantly what they plan to do moving forward.

I agree, but they need to stem the bleeding right now. More than anything, they need to be initiating dialogue with the community. It's quite clear that the development team does not have a proper understanding of what new and innovative content looks like. The community has been clamoring for years for this type of content, and yet it's nowhere to be seen. They need to start talking to us and asking our opinions and then - the important part - they need to listen. Only time will tell if they can pull this off. I'm not terribly optimistic at this point, but who knows?