[2022] Research 1370-1415

No updates to this right now unfortunately Will be sure to share if that changes

Good news!! Player feedback has been heard, and the stronghold research buff has been added

What was confused with something else? This thread is about the Stronghold Research Honing buff, which was added after player feedback around it.

We always let players know that we are taking feedback and delivering it to the appropriate teams, but changes aren’t made based on player feedback 100% of the time. The update was not delayed only due to the Stronghold Honing Buff coming in, and this change was not made until very recently. We were able to announce it with the rest of the information ahead of the patch since it was something players had been asking for.

There is a new event coming, that will be included in the patch notes for the update next Wednesday. This was a team update focused on the delay of the June Update and changes to previously announced content.

Added the word “only” for clarification in my original post, apologies.

The buff was not originally included in our patch, and was not planned to be added back in until we pushed for it based on all of the player feedback we received. I don’t have full details to share on why it was initially removed besides it being considered for a different timing with other content, but no one is sinister enough to be removing things then putting them back to generate false “good PR.” Not to personalize too much here, but amount of damage/death threats I take from being the messenger on “bad” decisions is absolutely not worth any amount of “good PR” from reversing these decisions and I would absolutely long have moved myself off of this project if that was happening.