Quote Originally Posted by MageBlack View Post
Look at Pokemon and how popular those games are with each new installment being basically the same game with maybe 10 new monsters. The core of the games are the same but people love the shit out of them. Thats the other issue, if they were copy pasting fun and exciting content, i dont think any of us would have as many issues as we do.
Although Pokemon installments have been more different as of late, there is a fine line between copy/paste and maintaining familiarity, and SE seems to only know this for the games they're most familiar with: single-player games.

As for the main topic, I feel like there is a more pressing question: how left in the dark is the communication team, or at least the NA community team given NA players seem to be getting information for the game from other sources (like translating JP or other foreign language posts before they reach NA outlets). Now this is not to bash the NA community team by any means, but it does beg to wonder if the reason why we get little to no information from them is because they're getting little to no information or orders from higher-ups.