The overall rule for engagement right here is that after gamers pay for the sport, we will’t ever take one thing in recreation away from them until there was dishonest or exploiting concerned (and even then, we virtually at all times 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 could need to reset progress every so often 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 recreation product and taking one thing away from them makes them really feel actually actually unhealthy.
Now… the principle motive 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. Previous expertise bushes might not be purposeful anymore – we could have deleted sure abilities or utterly rearranged the tree. The previous character’s tree progress could also be utterly damaged, that means the character may be unplayable. We could wish to observe the leveling expertise to confirm that our tuning is working correctly, so we don’t need a character at max stage from the leap. We could wish 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 wish to see gamers work together with as they stage up. There are many explanation why we might wish to reset progress.
We may attempt to do this type of factor piecemeal (e.g. respec all character abilities, reset all characters to stage 1, and so on.) nevertheless it’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 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 not make any main adjustments to the launch recreation.
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