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Gingers: WTB a CM

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I think it is completely reasonable for the company to inform the players with the direction they are taking the game, what content features are being developed and coming soon to the game, acknowledge the glaringly obvious balance issues which still exist months after the expansions release, and other topics which the player base would love a word or two discussed with them.
  • How is the raid coming along? Testing soon?
  • How is the game being viewed by the company in terms of expansion success?
  • How is class balance being viewed in terms of importance compared to the rest of the game development?
  • Are healer changes inc or did that get postponed and healing balance will happen soon?
  • What is the game trying to do to get the old playerbase to return to its game?
  • How about that Primalist? Going over 2 years with only 1 mediocre soul released, no support still and no AoE healer.
  • Does the company recognize that the easy mode game which SFP was not 100% desired by the playerbase, and are there plans to increase difficulty or create "master mode" dungeons?
It is time for important topics to be discussed officially by the company because the remaining player base deserves transparency.

I know you all haven't had much information from us, so I'll try to give some clarity where I can.
  • How is the raid coming along? Testing soon? Yes we are planning on testing soon. A lot of fantastic concept art has been created for the raid. The map itself is "white boxed" meaning the designers can work within the space while the artists make it pretty. The raid armor is in the process of being modeled and rigged. The boss models are being rigged and animated. The boss mechanics, abilities, and scripts are being created with temp VFX in place. Actual VFX is starting soon, audio will come in after that.
  • How is the game being viewed by the company in terms of expansion success? Personally I'm incredibly proud of what our team has achieved, increasing the level cap is a HUGE amount of work along with the most beautiful land mast we've ever launched with. That's my personal viewpoint.
  • How is class balance being viewed in terms of importance compared to the rest of the game development? Class balance is as important as all other aspects of the game. Class balance/systems has it's own team, just like content has a team, and environment art has a team. We have a huge game to maintain and EVERY major update has include class balance. It is constantly being worked on, it is a never ending work.
  • Are healer changes inc or did that get postponed and healing balance will happen soon? A healing pass is planned but when it will release is still being ironed out, it really depends on how that change fits in with the other content being worked on.
  • What is the game trying to do to get the old playerbase to return to its game? We often do marketing campaigns that give special bonuses to players that return. We regularly give freebies, discounts, and free Patron time to returning players. As often as we create high end content, we also create content for new/returning players to make the game easier to understand such as the Starter Guild system, the upcoming LFR system, level boosts, dungeon veteran incentives, added the special artifacts to Stonefield and Gloamwood, we added new player lockboxes that give free goodies every few levels.
  • How about that Primalist? Going over 2 years with only 1 mediocre soul released, no support still and no AoE healer. I don't know what the souls will be but they are in our future plans. I can't give any more specifics than that.
  • Does the company recognize that the easy mode game which SFP was not 100% desired by the playerbase, and are there plans to increase difficulty or create "master mode" dungeons? We have a lot of plans for dungeons in the future but that also I can't get into specifics.
Also I should mention that the last 6+ months were a bit of a crunch and the devs are very dedicated to their work, very few took time off during that period. So now that the expansion has launched some are still out on vacation spending time with their families.

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