This is how you release Roadmaps and content

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Hello,

I would like to share that this is not a way how to present a Roadmap for a specific month.

Everyone was waiting for the upcoming roadmaps, June and July. With both being released many had big hypes to see any content release. Now as a simple excuse we are still fixing “bots” is not relevant enough to not push an update through the system.

Having many bugs in game is what could prevent out coming updates, the only thing is that nothing is proper shared and have lack of comunication on the forums.

This is how you should had announced Roadmaps:

Roadmap June

9th of June THRONESPIRE
16th of June NEW GUARDIAN RAID - KUNGELANIUM
23rd of June LEGION RAID - VYKAS (NORMAL & HARD)
30th of June NEW STORE COSMETICS - YOZ’S JAR

Roadmap July

7th of July CHALLENGE ABYSSAL DUNGEONS
14th of July VALTAN LEGION RAID - INFERNO DIFFICULTY
21th of July NEW MAGE ADVANCED CLASS - ARCANIST

This gives people weekly new content to play and enjoy the game.

This is HOW you should not release roadmaps:

Roadmap June: everything will be released mid June of this Roadmap.

  • sorry delay, removing bots
    -last min sorry delay 30th of June will be the release date

As result, 3 weeks of hype and waiting, people quiting, people stop spending more time in this game cause of lack with new content or Mini games. Boring side quick level up events. Announcements on updates are to poor to keep people motivated.

A Bug that keep existing, disconnect → kill Valtan, you are save for both instance. No refund cause of no server related disconnect.

We know no one like bots, but these bugs should have more priority then bots. Also Split the Roadmaps over the month etc.

Lets hope you are improving on upcoming releases.

Inochi

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I dont really want an 8hr downtime every week

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Exactly xD

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Push an update does not take 8 hours, they have always a 4 hours down time to fix some errors. The servers can be online as soon as they finished. It’s a time spot they need as “max” in worst cenario.

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It’s worst case scenario for them everytime

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also weekly extended 8h Thursday maintenances and regular Satursday 4h hotfixes… Work with reality, not dreams, please.

They do what they do, by now it’s a norm and one would need to be … to be surprised or not know what to expect. Everyone has a choice here.

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That’s not how it works. It would make updating the game so tedious. Not realistic.

It’d be nice, though.

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Lol, weekly patches like that is ridiculous. I cannot believe people are expecting new content every week, do you even play mmos? Large monthly or bimonthly updates are much better way

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Sadly I play for years, but there is different in announce updates and just skip updates till very last day.

These are minor updates that only adds instances to the game, big update is a whole island like South Vern.

We speak about, small raid 3 phase, 1 guardian, tower. If you call this big. Goodluck.

It’s like adding an event into the game. Keeps people busy with small content.

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Anyone else wants to add something related on how they feel how they could improve the system? :slight_smile: feel free to comment.

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A lot of times the builds are all in one so while this is a better way to string out content it’s not likely to happen this way. It’s just frankly a development thing not a this is good for marketing and player happiness thing.

What we are really just lacking is clear lines of communication, Roxx and Shadow do their thing but they aren’t a direct content source that can speak frankly to the players. KR has loved this game because Gold River spent a shit load of his time directly talking to players to keep them happy even doing impromptu youtube/streams when things were getting rough.

TLDR: I don’t think this style of releasing content is practical though it is better. AGS communication is dog dookie bad if it was better we wouldn’t have so many people so upset.

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How about not holding classes hostage either? Y’all really think I’m gonna wanna attempt to swap mains in 10 months when Artist finally releases? HAH! I might as well quit.

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Do you honestly believe they have writing/typo problems or they dont know for sure when the patch will be release?

Try to understand they WANT to release everything at a different speed BUT for some reason, they cant.

THEY = Roxx wants :smiley:

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You seem to forget that they are at the mercy of SG.

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I like your idea, though personally i like huge updates where everything drops at once tee hee. Hmm, funny enough they were able to remove the punika growth pack from the store without a patch or downtime. Hotfixes don’t need a server restart or 4 hours of downtime, though tbh there were two instances were they say 4 hours, but its much less, one time it was 1:40, and the other 2:40.

Bugs are priority i agree and need to be fixed much faster, there are bugs that existed for a month now and i hope they get fixed and not get forgotten.

People quit because they finished everything in 1 month and burnt out. Rushing is never a good idea. This is a game where you progress slowly over time, it will take months and years even. Also, they only play one game or do one thing, this is never healthy or goodie. I think if you have other stuff to do you wouldn’t feel that way about the game. This is my experience.

Communication wise, and giving us info last minute, has been a problem since release, they did the same thing every patch, march, april and June same thing and they didn’t improve. Whoever is managing things at AGS is doing a poor job. Unacceptable from a billion dollar company.

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It will have passes to 1445 probably . If you keep your materials you can easy swap mains.