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PD -> RE: AQ Newsletter: Tibbles Tank in the Void + November 2021 Giftboxes (11/8/2021 1:39:41)
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So my thoughts on this release:
Hopefully, these elemental variants will stay around permanently. The reason we asked for these items to come back in the first place is either due to nostalgia, or asking for the functionality of these items to return. Either which is asked for only because these niches weren't available to the average person. My big question is why we can't have the previous Twisted Gauntlet of Xano return. Unless my memory is failing me, there isn't really any promise made to make it so it can't return with these batches or even just stay around permanently. And Hollow has said he will avoid explicitly labeling items as unobtainable ever again going forward, though he also measured his words saying that it doesn't mean that items are guarenteed to come back (In my honest criticism, this is a cop-out). In fact, all the other previous Twisted items should return, or the staff should lay out to us a clear timeline of when these items would return and ideally make it so we don't have to wait too long. There is literally 0 rationale over why they should keep them out of our hands in the absence of explicit explanation of why previous twisted items cannot return. And I think I've said it more than enough times that AQ has a problem with unobtainable content. While I understand that these releases are de-compressors for the major releases (understandably, we just finished the major part of the Lost Talon Set), this is a faustian bargain to play with. This maybe easy to do in the short term, but it kicks the can down the road and this will become part of the snowball of unobtainables that has defined AQ strongly over the later half of the last decade, and doesn't seem to be slowing down either this decade.
And each time we do something like this, because of the ambiguity of the statement as was presented we will have question and have to continually re-litigate and/or speculate on the discussion of why "this" can return, but "that" cannot. And in my opinion, speculation and re-litigation is not healthy for the relationship between the devs and players in the long term at a time when said relationship has taken a dive in a bad direction. At the very least, we should be owed the explanation (but not entitled to but given what is at stake, yes we would like one) of why the previous twisted items are not to come back, while we have a "Twisted Twisted Gauntlet of Xano" to be available to us this time. And for those of us who may miss this, and then ask for it again because they just couldn't get it this time around, we'll have yet another "Twisted Twisted Twisted Gauntlet of Xano", and then after that for the people who missed that, a "Twisted Twisted Twisted Twisted Gauntlet of Xano", and ad infinitem.
This variant of the Xano gauntlet is a fire version. The other being light. That said, I've received a few comments about the obtainability of some of the other Twisted items, so will be bring this up with the rest of the team. ^_^
Also, we ought to hope that since this isn't a normal Void Takeover (or at least, it doesn't say it's a void takeover and should finally replace Mr. Frostvalverse) we should have options going forward to replay and access older void battles that aren't Takeovers, in addition to adding what's already being asked to update the current void rotation so it doesn't take a bazillion years to get around it.
Yush, this isn't a takeover but a boss to make Mr. Frostvalverse move over. As for a Void revamp, we'd very much like to address this and do it properly in a fun engaging way, though this will be a next year thing. Linky. ~Anim
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