Aren't holiday quests a waste of development time and effort right now?

[Peregrine]

They have several things they can do to not turn people off with meaningless content updates. Namely, playing them down instead of hyping them.

Take the quests, for instance. What was that? Are they what *anyone* wanted when we said we want quests? No. They're horribly pointless fetch quests, the most basic of the basic fodder quests that weren't even acceptable almost a decade ago. People will argue that you have to start somewhere. People will say that these are the most basic quests. Really. Are they? Are they. Prove it. Because SE hyped them and they fell well short of industry standards, our expectations, and just made SE look bad. People laughed.

How do you release the crap quests that you already made that are terrible? Well A, you never make that kind of **** again so it's not an issue. B. You can severely downplay it. Outright say they're not that good but they were intended as launch-day impression pieces. I can understand if the 18 quests are meant for newbie PS3 people when they log on for their first week. But they should have NEVER been hyped as a cure for what ails the game, and they shouldn't have even been hyped as content to current players of the game.

Same thing with the holiday event. Downplay that ****, don't put it on the front line of your letter as the majority of a PATCH. That's not a patch for anything that's broken in the game, so they don't get credit for patching anything with it. If this holiday event didn't affect any other development, say it. Players need to know they didn't dick around with this for even 2 weeks of March. If they DID dick around with it, it ends. Fix the game. Get to work. I know holiday crap is easy to develop just like those crap quests were easy to develop, and it makes it look like they're doing SOMETHING but it doesn't COUNT. For them to pretend it does makes them look like a joke to the player base.

I don't want to hear about another holiday event as anything but an oh by the way at the end of the announcement. If those quests down the pipeline are more of the same trash, don't even bother getting the translation team. Yoshi-P namedropped more quests, am I supposed to squeal like a school girl? Because the last batch of quests were painful to complete. Instead of pretending they were good, apologize for that **** and let us know that the next batch won't be that poor.

But my suspicion is that they thought they could sell the holiday event as more evidence of content, and they don't even realize that the quests they already released were a waste of their time to make and a waste of our time to play.

Why do I think that? Because they haven't said otherwise. Assurance that holiday events and fetch quests aren't considered good quality content by Yoshi-P would go a long way IF they MUST continue to release them.

I am calling what looks like a bluff at this point. It's almost time to show the hand. They'd better have something more than a holiday event and a 2nd round of pointless fetch quests by mid may.