The overall 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 except there was dishonest or exploiting concerned (and even then, we nearly all the time do a rollback as an alternative of a reset). Early Entry might be the one exception to this rule as a result of we state outright from the leap that we might should reset progress once in a while as new modifications 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 principle purpose we do that earlier than launch is as a result of we’re making main modifications to the sport earlier than launch and we have to observe. Previous expertise timber will not be purposeful anymore – we might have deleted sure abilities or utterly rearranged the tree. The outdated character’s tree progress could also be utterly damaged, which means the character may be unplayable. We might need to observe the leveling expertise to confirm that our tuning is working correctly, so we don’t need a character at max degree from the leap. We might need to observe how gamers select leveling areas and distribute themselves, so we would like them to restart from zero. We’d have added a parallel development path or system we need to see gamers work together with as they degree up. There are many the explanation why we might need to reset progress.
We might attempt to do this sort of factor piecemeal (e.g. respec all character abilities, reset all characters to degree 1, and so forth.) but it surely’s a lot simpler and safer to wipe the slate clear utterly. There are different advantages to a clear slate like the way it encourages gamers to strive one thing new and completely different (e.g. a brand new class, a brand new race, a brand new specialty, a brand new leveling path, and so forth.), 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 not make any main modifications to the launch sport.
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