Zahle Undt
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.05.05 18:05:00 -
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If I may play amature analyst here, the negative reaction for this "SP sink" comes from two places, both the emotional and the logical (at least for me).
The emotional reaction is that no one ever likes to have something valued, and the SP sink while perfectly logical from various standpoints is a devaluing of one of the most valuable commodities one works for in this game...SP. Devaluing of a cuurency is the sort of thing that sends economies into spiral so the immediate gut reaction of being upset over somthing one has "worked" for like SP is simply to be expected.
Now from the logical stand point here is where I have a bit of a problem with these apparent sinks. From what information we have (which is certainly not full information), those of us who have been playing since last wipe and likely even open beta will be able to get into standard fits of our chosen battlefield role assault, heavy, scout, or logi. However, IF a starting character cannot immediately be at the beginning teir of their battlefield role, I think CCP has violated rule #1 of an MMO or in this case an MMO/FPS hybrid the ability to play your class right away. Instead they favor the scheme of the multiplayer FPS where you are a bland soldier like everyone else on your team and the other team except for what weapon you're rolling with.
If I just picked this game up on release and all I couldn't get into my logistifcs role right away or if I couldn't try a couple different types of weapons, I wouldn't be motivated to put the month grind in to get the Sp necessary to do those things. Especially when the only way to grind that SP would be getting my butt kicked in pub matches against the likes of us with several million Sp already up on you. Being mindful of keeping your player base wanting to play your game is wise, but you have to build your player base up first. To me this SP sink is almost CCPs way of saying that they aren't going to have maps, PvE, or other interesting new content that they forshadowed at fanfest for quite sometime so they have to resort to making keep grinding Sp for SP sake.
But honestly I can't believe CCP is releasing in 9 days missing the meaningful link to EVE either so in comparrison to that what's a little SP sink. |