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Posted - 2013.03.17 12:15:00 -
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CCP Eterne wrote:We have been getting a lot of questions about Skill Point resets lately. In order to help everyone find this information, here is CCP's official stance on resetting skill points.
We currently have no plans to reset your characters' skill points to a state where they are equivalent to a newly created character, barring something catastrophic.
OK, a quick point around terminology and a question.
If you work in the field of Operational Risk or similar for some time the word "catastrophic" is more about impact than cause.
Although the work catastrophic brings to mind God like acts such as meteors, tsunamis and war - in technology you are more likely in the realm of information security breaches or failure of process than much else.
However, CCP isn't using the word "catastrophic" to mean two totally random events taking out their primary and backup data centres at the same time. They are talking mainly about the following:
- Financial risk
- Reputational risk - often leading to the former
In essence a "something catastrophic" is something that puts at risk their ability to make as much money as possible. Not a Biblical tempest taking out Shanghai.
CCP need to start being honest about their use of the word "catastrophic". I can tell you, it's not what they make it sound. If this was just a beta - meh I would not care. The problem is that they are taking people's money with this statement, and that I find concerning.
The other thing. The question I asked about. CCP simply refuse to answer this.
When the game finally, maybe limps over the line to a "Gold" game what will the entry level be for a new rolled character? Will it be the same as now or higher SP to reduce the current gap? You could expect a many more months of beta. I think it would be a poor thing of CCP to do to sell items to take customers to a point they would soon get to by default when the game is released.
I think it is a much more important point than questions around the reset SP (Which CCP don't want to). Even if they are de-allocated and you get them all back to apply where you see fit how happy would you be if everyone was now only a month's train behind you.
CCP, you are still dabbling in weasel words. You just can't seem to help yourselves these days. |