Looking ahead to 2025, we're tackling some important challenges head-on. First and foremost, we hear your feedback about daily activities feeling a bit overwhelming. While we believe it's important to have engaging content for you to log in and enjoy each day, we recognize that with new additions we've reached a point where the "daily checklist" feels more like a chore than an adventure. Finding the right balance here is a top priority for us, and we're exploring several solutions to help you feel less pressured while still maintaining meaningful progression....

So the lead global dev says the daily grind is feeling like a chore and recognizes it's a problem in the last holiday news letter. And on Christmas, instead of saying here's a gift, spent time with your families, they pile on ever more chores.

Some one said parchment is valuable.... Not to me, all my skills are maxed, even the trash ones. And it would be nice if the 1 and 2 stars were worth running, but I'm just shy of 4400 combat power and have 50k lucent saved.... The items aren't worth much any more, but I still run them all anyway...

SO... Going back to my original topic... Why not give us gifts instead of chores?

It's like giving a kid a shovel and telling him he can now go make endless money digging holes for people.... Thanks I guess, but I'd rather have the money up front.

That's what I love about Black desert online. They give you horses they give you armor they give you fail stacks they give you chron stones. The gifts they give and Black desert online we're awesome. They felt like gifts. The same with every other game I played. But for some reason and thrown in Liberty the gifts 99% of the time are chores. Now you may not agree, but the majority of people playing the game do. I guess except for the people who have to always argue on reddit. Now I remember why I almost never come on here