sorry this is a long rant - TLDR: this feels like the most stale E7 has been in years.

Why does it feel like such a harsh content drought right now?

I looked back on the 12 months, and I took some time to think about it - it's been stale for a while now.

All the "content" we have right now, is repetitive - and basically solved.

Ancient Inheritance is always good to see, but it's always going to be SW+Warriors.

HOT is a one-and-done.

Automaton Tower is another brainless one-and-done.

Most event side-stories are recycled (not to mention last year's not being in BOM yet for people to get Alexa's SC).

Advents are a nice challenging change-up, but they rarely happen.

GVG is the same 10 units in different combinations.

Arena defences are either high speed cleave, or slow Golden Girls.

Add on things like 'promised content' (ie; eastern trading ship, 3v3 arena, guardian leveling) and SG breaking their Specialty Change schedule/cycle once again - and you just have a bunch of announced "content" that we get temporarily excited about - which keeps us going for that little bit longer, just for it to be scrapped, shelved, or delayed without actually being told so.

I can't think of a time where opening E7 to even do the dailies has felt like a chore. I can't even say I'm burnt out of the game because I enjoy rolling gear, building units, testing units, but I have never been this so absolutely bored out of my mind.

The April Fools side-story was a real nice change of pace using the AI styled gameplay. Imagine pairing that with ATT devices, AI relics (both of which also buff enemies to a certain degree to increase difficulty), inside of dungeons with bosses simillar to Labs with rewards at the end that can scale up depending on how many 'buffs' you took for yourselfs and your enemies.

I just want some content that I can do every so often where I actually have to put effort into it, because that's how AI is - coordinating as a guild actually feels fulfilling - not everything has to be 'brainless auto-battle goes brr'.

I just feel like SG's quality standards have dropped so far like... our "maintenance" this week is for Battle Speed which does little to nothing to animations, 23 NEW PACKS, profile card update (which is by far the highlight of the patch) and a new RTA season - the only thing they're doing to keep us "playing" is the free gear events, and the free ML selectors.

Sorry for the rant.