Thread: Request: Ability to re-assign class levels after 1.20

Originally Posted by Tsuga

I do think you should add that bending to a request like this sends a dangerous message - that being: "If you don't like the changes that we are making, we will compensate you!".

It amazes me that you consider this a problem to be avoided.

If they compensate players every time they completely change the roles of classes in the game, I think that would be a good thing.

Originally Posted by Spider-Dan

It amazes me that you consider this a problem to be avoided.

If they compensate players every time they completely change the roles of classes in the game, I think that would be a good thing.

Compensating for things that are broken - good. The reason being that it is a development problem that inconveniences everybody, and was essentially a mistake on the development side.

Compensating because you don't like a change - bad. The reason being that there are things that EVERYONE dislikes about the game. If one person's dislike is compensated for, then EVERYONE's dislikes should be compensated for. The Dev team cannot possibly please every single person, so this is a completely unrealistic expectation. You are not entitled to compensation for this any more than I'm entitled to compensation for the change to CNJ mechanics that I loathed three months ago. Or the year of grinding that I went through now that grinding from 1 - 50 takes a week.

Originally Posted by Tsuga

Compensating because you don't like a change - bad. The reason being that there are things that EVERYONE dislikes about the game.

There is a significant difference between "ARC is now a worse DD" (something that I accepted without complaint) and "ARC's role is no longer that of a DD, but that of a tank."

A complete revamping of a class's role is not in the same league as patch-to-patch pecking order changes.

If one person's dislike is compensated for, then EVERYONE's dislikes should be compensated for. The Dev team cannot possibly please every single person, so this is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Under this logic, why would they ever make any changes at all?

If what you are saying is true, then since other people's dislikes have obviously been accommodated (e.g. classes are more unique), then all dislikes must be accommodated, right? Obviously, that's not even possible.