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Fair question on Arena, it's been a little bit since we spoke about it. We'll have some more context in the dev update early next week, going to mention some stuff I can share here in advance though. Apologies if any of this isn't exactly what you're looking to hear
1. 8 teams of 2 has indeed been testing really well and we're pretty optimistic it'll be a solid update for Arena overall. I've really enjoyed this change especially myself
2. But, we're also trying some other stuff when it comes to Arena's next release, including some adjustments to items. Arena's last run was before removal of Mythics for one thing, so there are some adjustments that need to be made on that front alone
3. And we've got a range of other smaller things we want to at least tweak, or add a bit more content to (augments, map functionality, the starting platform for more players etc)
After we'd been working on the above (and other needed fixes etc) for a while we sat down and looked at our timeline and what trade offs versus other priorities would be needed to ship the next update as planned. Our conclusion was that we were not off track. As a result Arena will not be releasing as part of the Summer event this year because everything's going well and it should be out earlier