The dream of Mythic is basically dead... Frost Interview with Yoshida

[Shurrikhan]

That was a typo on my part. I edited my original post for clarity. I was referring to the development team wanting dungeons to become short, casual pieces of straightforward content, which has been stated by Yoshi-P on more than one occasion.

I see, and I apologize if my rant came off as directed at you, rather than more of a stream of related thoughts alone.

My point here was merely that such seems an immense disservice, especially in a game that was originally centered on a sort of promise for variety. If every iteration within each type of content feels the same, it matters little whether there are many content types, since we'll ultimately be left feeling like we've only as many actual iterations as we have types of content, just repainted frequently for at least a shallow level of briefly renewed novelty.

There are several threads here on the official forums, alone, that ask for revitalization and variety in dungeons, specifically (and yet more on Reddit). Similarly, of all the friends who've quit over the years, lack of variety (especially, within content types) has been a reason for departure second only to one's job being gutted.

The means to allow for more variety at no additional or unique annoyance are all there. Nothing about more dungeon variety would necessitate the reward-per-minute imbalance among dungeons on the scale of Praetorium vs. Castrum Meridanium. Nothing about more dungeon variety would necessitate more minutes spent per week grinding tomes. Nothing about more dungeon variety would necessitate longer queue times. Nothing about more dungeon variety would necessitate greater stress or frustration.

And yet they would insist on something so counter to their broader mission, something so wasteful? It's, sadly, not quite shocking, but it is at the least painfully depressing.