How about a free respec for the first 30 days? after 30 days it expires.

noobs make mistakes and hopefully by 30 days they done learned all hey need to learned and can go poof, better soldier while their mind is still fresh and young, if they get too old they are not as squishy anymore and makes it too hard to reset everything into the proper locations up in their brains anymore.

I can say the same about your opinion.

Let me put it this way.

This is the same mmo universe that refuses under all circumstances even if enticed with lots of money does NOT want to offer name changes as a service despite being asked for 10 years. Think about it and what and how the environment changes when you CANNOT change you name.

Care to explain to me why a 4 player game like diablo or warframe or even a generally single player game like minecraft are MMOs?

BTW name change is very important in some games to allude certain punishments of social interactions.

Lets say you saw a guy you hated get nailed by a tank round and you decided to go teabagg his lifeless corpse.

Come to find out he's the CEO of a very powerful military organization and while he normally doesn't mind teabagging he thinks that you stealing the honor reserved for the real killer of that clone was more than enough for him to click declare war on your mercenary outfit which leads to a war that destroys it and you get to be stuck with that blame, "Hey remember that guy named the Trainspotter? yeah isn't he the guy that got his alliance destroyed teabagging someone? he wants to join our group think we should invite him? only to troll him tell him there is a processing fee of 10 million isk and soon as he donates his assets for the war chest kick him.

and as weird or odd or unlikely as that sounds we're talking about the same universe that had wars started over one guy calling the other guy's sister is a tart, a real life divorce leading to an ingame divorce with guns on both sides, and crashing an ingame funeral or a RL person which lead to a short 1 year long war with crashing side getting completely destroyed in the end.

There are names to these stories, and those names haunt some of those characters to this day even.

The Mittani, Vile Rat, Chibbera, Marlona Sky, the list goes on and on. I can only recall one person from world of warcraft as being notable, Leroy.

That is part of the gameplay though, interacting with other players. You will NOT get far in Dust without other people.

After you get all the content finalized and into the game , then I'd be ok with respecs.

Will it? Even going to the point of saying it takes a full year to spec into a role you're looking at 1 role per year and with it the same level of burnout with or without respecs. Though without them there may come a greater compulsion to play since SP becomes that much more meaningful (SP MUST be acquired to diversify, vs AUR - which can be gained without gameplay, Isk - which older players tend to have an abundance of, or SP - which requires gameplay). I don't see them making people play more, just more people not playing as they don't have to to get into whatever, they can just wait the remainder of 6-12 months.

Or just never.