Talk:Updates/@comment-26424426-20150621210249/@comment-24668482-20150621214442

I agree wholeheartedly, Invictus. I would much rather an update with more new quests, and perhaps a new puzzle game and a couple of pictures than see another 30 day timed challenge that only contains 30 quests and ask you to play a single new picture up to academician level. But I guess that would require a longer wait between updates and I can understand that having more frequent but smaller updates is better for business.

The holiday updates are fun but they seem like a sneaky way to dress up what is actually very little new content. And I think the strategy actually backfires a bit. By putting a timer on new content encourages players to rush through it, meaning they run out of things to do again quicker than they might if working through at a more leisurely pace. And because they always seem to ask players to play the new picture so many times to complete the challenge, people get fed up with the new picture very quickly. The combined effect is to make the wait between updates feel longer than it really is.

And annoyingly there are little things that could be added that wouldn't take much more time or effort, such as adding new levels to the awards or the pictures. That would give players a lot to do, but wouldn't be too much effort for developers since programming already in place.

Anyway, there is a good chance you will get another chance to win the sphere though. They have already put it up for grabs twice now, but both times were at Halloween so you probably have a few more months to wait for that.