I don't see they publishing the State of the Game anymore

The title says it all. Wizards posts the weekly announcements and most of the time they don't have any major announcement, only schedule of events, things about sets and ranking rewards.

I miss state of the game posts because it shows us the direction the game is going. They don't need to put date on it, but it would be nice to know what they are working on and what is on the radar in terms of quality of life features.

I guess the reason is the fact they have nothing to show and don't intend to work on in the future and it makes me upset about that. A game successful as Arena should be trying to improve the game on and always because there are no excuse for not doing so (except their greediness).

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Originally posted by Glitterblossom

When you mention this stuff in the mtg Discord channel’s arena design channel, the answer you get (if you get one at all) is always some variant of, “Well, we’ve got enough on our plate with just putting tentpole sets on Arena, and I can’t take on extra work if I wanna keep being employed.”

Which is like. True. Obviously, I don’t fault individual devs. But it’s very telling that this is all anyone can say on the matter. Your company claims it’ll use its employees to do things, and then stretches them far too thin to actually accomplish them? It speaks to an utter incompetence of management—something that’s easy enough to know if you ever look up wotc employee reviews on Glassdoor.

Each time this game improves, it seems to be in spite of the way management allocates resources, not because of it.

Ian, who is the main person responding on Discord's design channel, leads the Cardset team, which is responsible for making new cardsets work. So yes, that's where his focus is. Achievements are being worked on by a different team.

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