Palace of the Dead (PAX)

[Kaurie]

SE's mishandling of the Diadem was, in my opinion, the single-biggest mistake this dev team has made. This game's only real endgame is a hardcore raiding system that's only completed by <1% of the playerbase. This game NEEDS a more accessible endgame in a bad, bad way. Too many people get bored and leave, or they just unsub until the next patch. There's really no excuse for that.

Rather than hope people keep coming back, why not just give them in-game goals? Grinding tomes eventually becomes pointless if there's no reason to have the gear.

In my opinion it was how they 'fixed' diadem and other mistakes. They keep on acknowledging mistakes, but then their fixes have nothing to do with the problem and they keep on making more of the same. It just shows they have 0 idea of what was actually wrong in the first place. That, to me, is the biggest mistake. Diadem was a failure for sure, but losing all confidence in the dev's ability to learn, adapt and deliver is what is going to lose my sub.

My view on every single Live Letter since Heavensward hit:
Yoshi: We understand that you do not like this content because of X. In order to tackle this, we are going to increase X and you need to git gud. For new content, we are adding more X, because we know that you all hate it so much, but this time it is in a very unique experience - where in order to get X you need to do X 3 times, stand on your head, count backwards from 100 while also singing the alphabet backwards at which point you'll have 0.1 X's.