The final rule for engagement right here is that after gamers pay for the sport, we will’t ever take one thing in sport away from them until there was dishonest or exploiting concerned (and even then, we nearly at all times do a rollback as a substitute of a reset). Early Entry might be the one exception to this rule as a result of we state outright from the bounce that we might should reset progress every now and then as new adjustments come on-line. We will by no means do that as soon as the sport is formally launched, as a result of too many gamers have already spent money and time for a sport product and taking one thing away from them makes them really feel actually actually dangerous.
Now… the primary cause we do that earlier than launch is as a result of we’re making main adjustments to the sport earlier than launch and we have to observe. Outdated expertise timber will not be useful anymore – we might have deleted sure skills or fully rearranged the tree. The previous character’s tree progress could also be fully damaged, that means the character may be unplayable. We might wish to observe the leveling expertise to confirm that our tuning is working correctly, so we don’t desire a character at max degree from the bounce. We might wish to observe how gamers select leveling areas and distribute themselves, so we would like them to restart from zero. We would have added a parallel development path or system we wish to see gamers work together with as they degree up. There are many the reason why we’d wish to reset progress.
We might attempt to do this type of factor piecemeal (e.g. respec all character skills, reset all characters to degree 1, and so on.) however it’s a lot simpler and safer to wipe the slate clear fully. There are different advantages to a clear slate like the way it encourages gamers to attempt one thing new and totally different (e.g. a brand new class, a brand new race, a brand new specialty, a brand new leveling path, and so on.), however we primarily reset progress in order that we will observe as many particular person playthroughs of the sport as we will earlier than the sport is launched into the wild and we will now not make any main adjustments to the launch sport.
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