Let's see what we have here:
-The game won PC Gamer game of the year.
Sweet, but not ultimately news. We knew this already.
-Building competition winner.
Sweet but ultimately not news. We knew this already.
-Lunar new year sale.
It's fine. This is not news for existing players, unless your friends have been waiting to get on board the viking ship.
-Coming to steam deck.
I think this is also fine. It is cool to see additional ways to play the game, for both new and existing players.
-Mountain caves coming soon.
Sweet but ultimately not news. We knew this already.
-Mistlands update
Sweet but ultimately not news. We knew this already.
I think this game is awesome for a whole number of reasons. The problem is… I want to keep enjoying it. When my group and I first got the game, we were all excited, hopping online together to boat around, mine, find new areas and fight bosses.
H&H was good, but unfortunately it alone was not enough to bring all my friends back to the game.
I believe that the reason why people feel frustrated and stale is because they want to keep enjoying the game that had an awesome beginning
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/sirajl/the_1_year_anniversary_dev_blog_is_weak/