So... why was the novus quest delayed again?

[QuCont]

The explaination given during one of the PLLs for delaying the introduction was that if Novus was introduced as it originally was, the Atma/Animus grind would've been considered a walk in the park and they felt that was a bit too masochistic considering all the outcry on the forum. I'm guessing it was purely a FATE thing.

Surely, besides just adding more ways to get alexandrite, they had to tweak other numbers as well. You don't just turn on the taps without widening the drainage pipes.

I'm guessing the maps weren't necessarily made up from scratch, they did say that the mob hunts in 2.3 would be difficult to solo even for people in i90, some would require a bird and some would require a party. There are also reports on the JP side of the forum that some monsters have never been seen before. It's possible some of those monters actually are from the incoming mob hunt dailies.

[Tiggy]

Another thread where the OP has zero idea what it takes to design, develop, test a game and assumes it's a fast process simply because a feature seems simple.

[Raikki]

Another thread where the OP has zero idea what it takes to design, develop, test a game and assumes it's a fast process simply because a feature seems simple.

Frankly, customers shouldn't be asked to care about the behind the scenes process. They pay for a product and in general have a set of expectations for that product based on past and present products of a similar nature. Yes, I'm sure making a game is hard, but that's the business SE is in and they are a major player in that business and it is perfectly fair for paying customers to expect them to be able to offer competitive service.

If they listened to feedback about the Atma/Animus process, how did they conclude that selling maps for 800 myths was a good idea after burning us out making us grind 15,000 myths already, something which garnered extensive negative feedback?