Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.09.08 19:56:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:The problem with this sort of mentality, is the belief that the hotfixes are meant to end. This is the recurring problem with the people crying over respecs every patch. You guys don't even understand what's going on.
The game will always be changing.
Deal with it.
Soraya hits the nail on the head with this post... though I'm not certain in the way he intended 
You see, respecs would allow players to alter their skills to be better in line with the current meta. For some players, yes, that means speccing into the fitting most likely to wrack up a high K/D. For others, it's having the most efficient logi fit, durable sentinel, or sneaky scout...
The point is, for a brief moment, the player (that's you and I) will have what we desire most. That's BAD for CCP's bottom dollar. Players who "win" at Dust 514 will leave and with them goes CCP's income.
So what does CCP do? They move our target by manipulating the metagame. What can't "win" when the new FotM changes constantly. I've heard the term "perfectly unbalanced" before and I think it aptly applies here.
TL;DR - We won't get respecs because that will cost CCP money. When CCP can charge us for the ability to respec then we can respec every day if we want.
This is about money. That's it. Not player retention or "Respecs r hard u guyz".
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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Ripley Riley
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Posted - 2014.09.08 20:06:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:It's not my playerbase, it's CCP's playerbase. I am a member of said playerbase. My job as CPM is primarily to convey useful feedback from players to CCP, not the other way around.
Isn't one of the "CPM Operation and Function" points that CPM should bring up pain points to CCP? Like for example, the extremely high desire for respecs since hotfixes keep updating our metagame.
Soraya Xel wrote:Telling players stuff is CCP's job.
Funny you say that... the majority of what I learn about the future and state of Dust 514 is from CPM. Which is fine, in my book, but not the way it is supposed to work.
He imposes order on the chaos of organic evolution...
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