DUST Search - Letter/Petition to CCP for Skill Respec on May 14th

Commander Dizzle wrote:

Anyone who is wondering on the RE RESPEC... this is the answer you will get from CCP:

Hello,

Thanks for your email.

We are unfortunately unable to provide any further re-spec to any character further to the one provided to you upon the release of the Uprising build which is the final re-spec prior to the game being released later this month.

As we are not offering any further re-spec, any skill point spent is unfortunately permanently attributed to the chosen skill however progress in DUST 514 is never wasted and you can still skill up the required attributes by accumulating more SP during Battles.

I would also like to bring to your attention, should you have purchased any AURUM/Merc Packs before January 22nd, we will be offering players a full reimbursement of such assets (Optional) for you to spend once more which will trigger a full account reset (ie. All SP/ISK/Assets will be deleted should you opt in) and more information about this option will be provided to players in the coming days.

I can certainly understand this can be a bit of an inconvenience and I can only apologise again for not being able to provide you with a suitable solution to your problem.

If you have any further issues or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us again.


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Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 2	Posted - 2013.05.08 15:08:00 - [1] - Quote A BETA (even this late in the BETA stage), is still technically a work in progress, and may or may not represent the finished product. People should not be forced to commit to (or punished for) choices made during a BETA, prior to the "official", final, release of the product. After the official release date, all bets are off, and all decisions are final. I'm fine with that. But BETA TESTERS should at least be given the OPTION of one final respec on release day, IMO. *Signed
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 5	Posted - 2013.05.08 16:40:00 - [2] - Quote AntanTheBeast wrote: Deal with it. You guys should of used your skill points wisely and not blow them away so quickly! Just to be clear, I'm not in favour of a respec because I've screwed up my SP allocation, or because I've neglected to read the descriptions of the skills. I'm in favour of an OPTIONAL respec at launch because a BETA is for testing, not for gaining a head-start, and I don't feel that a player should be punished for using their time during the BETA to actually TEST the product. Post-launch, all decisions should be final, I couldn't agree more but, prior to launch, it is still just a BETA.
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 15	Posted - 2013.05.09 01:20:00 - [3] - Quote I think it's obvious that, despite the official launch being less than a week away, this game is still very much a work in progress. Until CCP can decide upon final, permanent core mechanics for this game, why should we, as players, be forced to live with and abide by choices and decisions based upon those mechanics?
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 19	Posted - 2013.05.09 02:44:00 - [4] - Quote Lightning xVx wrote: It's pretty obvious how many threads are going on about this (3-4) at once. It needs to be addressed if that many people are complaining about it. Agreed. There seems to be enough support in favor that CCP should at least consider it.
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 19	Posted - 2013.05.09 02:50:00 - [5] - Quote Don Von Hulio wrote: Lightning xVx wrote: It's pretty obvious how many threads are going on about this (3-4) at once. It needs to be addressed if that many people are complaining about it. What? Maybe for noobs who have like 2mil SP total.... but not for veterans with more than 2mil SP. We knew changes were coming, we know how to view details of items/skills, we know to plan ahead... So if you blew your SP, then you should be SOL. "Too bad" just doesn't seem like a very valid reason not to, IMO. Make it an optional respec. The vets won't have to waste their precious time re-alloting their millions if they don't want to, and those noobs who do won't affect you at all.
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 21	Posted - 2013.05.09 10:06:00 - [6] - Quote Commander Dizzle wrote: Anyone who is wondering on the RE RESPEC... this is the answer you will get from CCP: Hello, Thanks for your email. We are unfortunately unable to provide any further re-spec to any character further to the one provided to you upon the release of the Uprising build which is the final re-spec prior to the game being released later this month. As we are not offering any further re-spec, any skill point spent is unfortunately permanently attributed to the chosen skill however progress in DUST 514 is never wasted and you can still skill up the required attributes by accumulating more SP during Battles. I would also like to bring to your attention, should you have purchased any AURUM/Merc Packs before January 22nd, we will be offering players a full reimbursement of such assets (Optional) for you to spend once more which will trigger a full account reset (ie. All SP/ISK/Assets will be deleted should you opt in) and more information about this option will be provided to players in the coming days. I can certainly understand this can be a bit of an inconvenience and I can only apologise again for not being able to provide you with a suitable solution to your problem. If you have any further issues or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us again. Hence this petition, and other threads like it. If CCP see just how many people support the idea of one final respec, and the valid reasons for it (I.e. not all of the supporters just want a do-over because they made a mistake) maybe they will reconsider their position.
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 22	Posted - 2013.05.09 10:45:00 - [7] - Quote Panther Alpha wrote: signed too. It will be good for the game, if we all start at a level ground ( Specially for new players ) Edit: Btw... i'm more in favor of a total reset, not a Respec ....just to make it clear. The more I think about this, the more I'm inclined to agree that a total reset (with a full Aurum refund) might be best for the game. Sure, they might lose a few vets that are upset they've lost all their hard-earned SP, but they'll more than make up for them in the number of new players who don't walk away discouraged afer being proto-stomped by these same vets the first time they play. Introducing more new players is more beneficial to the success and future of the game itself than catering to a handful of vets, IMO. Besides, if these vets enjoyed the game enough to grind millions and millions of SP in the first place, I doubt they'd find it so easy to just walk away, even if they took all those SP away. Most likely they'd huff and puff and complain, and then just grind some more. (but I'd be satisfied with just a one-time, end of beta, optional respec)
Jaqen Morghalis Abandoned Privilege 36	Posted - 2013.05.09 18:00:00 - [8] - Quote Mathew LaBorde wrote: i do not believe the skill points are ccp's fault. i think you and everyone shouldve used an alt or read the descriptions and spent time researching the skills instead of assuming that they would be the same as the last build. its common sense. take your time and dont rush into things like a wild hog going fotr the kill. no. i do no think that there should be a respec. it is your own fault. next time stay up to date with whats going on with the updates instead of thinking that they are a waist of time. and all you jellybeans using moded controllers for the glu and other tac's, im ashamed to even be on the same battlefield. pitiful... Again, if this were after the game was officially released, I might agree with you. But this is still only a Beta, and that alone should warrant one last reset prior to launch. How can Beta Testers properly experiment and test, if they're worried that any misstep they make will be permanently part of their character after release? This is partly why most games RESET everyone at the end of Betas (also to avoid the beta testers having an unfair advantage over the new players). In this regard, I AM willing to compromise, and accept the fact that we won't be completely reset (although I don't entirely agree that this is necessarily the best course of action for the overall success of the game), and would settle for an optional skill respec instead.