Total Character Wipe

[cratoh]

It's not one or two very vocal people who want a wipe. It's multiple new people who bring it up in game, and occasionally on forums, an very few very vocal people who come and shout at them every time, naming no names, it quite obvious who. They get ridiculed for asking, or called trolls or just shouted at and pointed to ambiguous posts about it.

The OP answered a lot of the quite silly claims made by people who don't want one, in a very reasonable manner and yet still here we go the same.

If I didn't hear about P:G till launch I would do a little research, realise people had a game breaking advantage and just not bother. Or, I might try it for a bit, but I really hate the idea of joining a game where the whole economy is driven by a few old vets.

People say that there is no competitive edge to this game, well there is. There is totally a competitive edge. And it's cash. Going into the new release with skills intact gives people a massive advantage as they have millions upon millions invested in their characters in terms of storage, training, favour. Also guilds. They should be wiped as well or there will just be a few extremely attractive 'pre-made' guilds that people will want to join for all the perks.

Make no mistake, there will loads more stuff by launch, and all of it will be effected by a partial wipe, or only cash wipe.

I think that the vets posting in this thread about how a wipe is not important are being utterly disingenuous by listing all the reasons for not wanting a wipe, when the bottom line is that I think you are putting yourselves above the health of the game at launch. We've had our playground - that's what Alphas, and testing phases are. Playgrounds, but you want it to continue after launch, I've seen so many disparaging remarks about Steam launch and 'being swamped' etc etc, but Eric needs those people, we need them - to keep the cash flowing in, and to build a great community.

No wipe will equate to a ruling class of elite testers with a complete financial stranglehold over the rest of the server, dictating prices and values, getting any prestige items such possibly prime real estate when that is added, or BiS items in auction, or buying up items needed for new skills, or maintaining vendor stalls at a loss or whatever. One can argue that this isn't what will happen, but it really is, wait and see if no wipe.

A wipe will not completely prevent this - but it will help to make a launch more balanced. I've said it before and I'll say it again - the perk of Alpha - the payment for testing IS the testing - not what comes after.

EDITED to remove a couple of names from my post and instead just make it generic to people posting in this thread