Hello, this is Kim Jihoon, director at Project Moon.
I write to share some information regarding the following subjects:
"Theater - Identity Stories -Sinner employee card resources changed" from the April 17th (THU) Scheduled Update Notice,
and our current "Walpurgis Night schedule".
I would first like to apologize for delivering this delayed response despite recognizing the issue early on. Due to several internal meetings, it took me some time to write and post this announcement in a timely manner. I apologize.
The employee card images applied to the current version of the game, which are reverse sides of the Sinners' employee cards that display their logos, will be replaced with new illustrations as soon as possible(current deadline - by April 30th, Wednesday).
I informed our users long ago that the mugshot illustrations present in the Theater tab will be replaced.
So, given that the mugshot illustrations were going to be changed, I became somewhat overzealous, wondering if there was anything I could express more of or elaborate regarding the Sinners' stories in their pre-employment statuses. Because of this, I wavered on making a judgment call, constantly delaying the finalization of the new mugshots' design directions, and prioritized other urgent upcoming schedules.
The current placeholder versions of the employee cards applied to the game are a result of that hesitation—I began to believe that the image change should be applied as soon as possible, given that we had shared the information that they would be changed long ago, and that the new Season was approaching fast.
However, this decision was problematic for both our players' and my expectations.
Therefore, to prioritize improving the employee card UI image qualities, we intend to produce new mugshot illustrations with minimal changes to the design directions applied in our previous illustrations.
After an impromptu internal discussion, we concluded that our schedule allows for the mugshots to be updated by Apr. 30th (WED).
However, please understand that, in favor of speed, there won't be any significant changes to the characteristics of each Sinner expressed in the previous versions of the mugshots in the re-drawn illustrations. Given that I wavered for such a long time on making any changes to them, we concluded that the lore and design direction of the previous mugshot images were already good.
Also, I regret to inform you that the Walpurgis Night event will be released after Canto 8 is complete, so I beg your forgiveness and patience.
As we are currently all-hands-on-deck for the development of Canto 8, attempting to match the beginning of our Walpurgis Night event with the real-life Walpurgis Night again could cause a significant delay, so I decided to forgo that choice this time.
Once again, I sincerely apologize for causing our managers this inconvenience.
I will try my best to ensure that similar cases do not occur again.
Thank you.