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 Originally by: Yoshimako
Ofcourse if you actually bothered reading their reasons for the changes you may find that they did it so that it WOULD be more polished at launch.
Sure you can argue that all that content has gone but surely quality over quantity is preferable?
They had plenty of time to "polish" stuff. The capitals gone, well, ok, that can be helped, but cutting out NECESSARY gameplay elements because they're "not quite polished" enough will severely hurt their launch.
In the end, this is just another grind'em'up WoW-style clone, and so far there have really been, what, only three noteworthy games that I'm aware of that even tried to cut the crap in that aspect (EVE being the only one actually in service so far)... but I digress... fact is, for THAT kind of game, launch day playability is CRUCIAL to that game's success or failure.
So, yeah, QUALITY is better than QUANTITY... but in this case, the cutoffs severely hurt QUALITY, and it would be in their best interest to introduce the slightly less polished classes for the sake of gameplay quality.
So far it looks like failboat is preparing to dock with their launch day via choices made.
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Yes okay they could have put the release date back 6 months and finished the lot BUT half the gamers of the world are to ******ed to realise that postponements are actualy (if frustrating) a good thing.
Ever heard of that company called Blizzard ? They tended to almost always postpone their (admitedly, single player) games, and all it would do is raise the hype levels... and somehow, still, they DID manage to rise up to the expectations most of the time, in spite of the over-hyping.
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Just because they have pulled all these things from launch oesnt mean that they wont be added at another time. Infact i think (assumng the game gets some kind of player base) you can count on them being reintroduced.
Of course they'll get introduced. At a later time, when most players that started paying got bored with the lack of features, and word of mouth is already running them downhill.
And with the omnipresent WoW shadow looming over their heads, it would take a really dedicated fan of the franchise (which I'm not) to even bother sticking around much.
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Sure you can naysay and doomsay all you want but im going to actually play the game before i start whining about how its going to be another MMOPOS.
These type of signs generally do not lie.
And these signs say "we care about fast cash more than customer satisfaction".
And in the end, that means "we got your money, now shut the hell up, if you put up with it so far, you will keep doing so in the future, OR ELSE".
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