General Discussion

In the first part of our post-launch interview with Mythic Entertainment's Jeff Hickman, MMORPG.com Managing Editor Jon Wood asks a couple of questions about the four classes that were cut from the game pre-launch, when we can expect to see them in-game, whether or not they are affecting game balance and more.

MMORPG.com:

When and how are you going to implement the careers and cities that were cut prior to launch?

Jeff's Answer:

Sorry folks, there’s not set date for this just yet, but Jeff had some interesting things to say on the topic and assured us that they hadn’t been forgotten and that they would be in the game:

“We desperately want to do some of these things that we’ve pulled out of the game… We do have plans. We’ve been talking about it for months and it’s very important to us to do the right things with the game. I don’t mean to sound wishy-washy about it. We’re going to [get the classes in]. It’s just a matter of how long it takes us to do the right things to those classes. We pulled them away for a reason and that’s because they weren’t as good as they needed to be. So we’re looking at those classes hard now and we’re looking at how long it’s going to take us to make them to the point where they feel as good as the other 20 classes in the game.”

“I firmly believe,” he said “that our classes… each one feels cool and unique in and of themselves.” He doesn’t however, want everyone to like every class. He told us that his goal was to evoke emotion from players about the classes. Players should love some and hate others.”

“We’re going to launch those classes when they’re absolutely ready,” he continued, answering the original question, “hopefully it will be fairly soon., but don’t look for it in the next couple of weeks. That’s just not going to happen. We have to make these things perfect or at least as perfect as they can be.”

Read the interview here.

Well that's good news. I'm sure a lot of people will be very happy with the addition of the Choppa and Hammerer specifically.

 Amazing.  A developer level-headed enough to point out that while the cut classes created an imbalance in T1, they don't matter for the T4 balance which is significantly more important.

funny that he completely ignored - not just side-stepped - but ignored the city part of the questions

are they gone for good?

has this been brought up anywhere else?

I can't wait for the knight of the blazing sun to come back. The empire needs some meat shields!

Also, the black guard was the class I planned on playing before they were cut so I'll be interested in trying one, even though I don't play destro at all right now =P

 I got out of it that the cities are not gone for good but rather the cut classes rate first before that along with other glitches and bugs.

 My only complaint was not seeing anything on improved chat. Of course, that question wasn't asked either.

 I agree about the RvR stuff. I've had times where my Chaos Chosen gets stomped and other times, I'm doing the stomping. Of course, I've had to change my play style. I took Chaos Chosen to heart and just rushed into battle maiming, killing and destroying. I try to be more of a team player now.

 But, getting a good defense set up or a good retaliatory strike going really needs a good chat system. I'm not talking about the scenarios but rather the RvR areas in the zones. We were getting stomped last night a few steps away from the war camp...the war camp was full of potential reinforcements. I had to /shout to get some help.

 Overall, I'm loving the game. Granted, I'm only rank 9 but so far so good except for a few things.

I want a gamma option. I have more issues with that than anything besides gold sellers and PQs being empty. I accept that RvR is going to be hit or miss. Cities at the moment is the least of my worries and classes would be nice but I am still exploring the ones that are there.

Its nice he doesn't (but understands) think people should judge the game so early but for a lot of people they don't wanna wait and if the game at the beginning doesn't suck them in then they pretty much will say screw this.  There is imbalance in the game perhaps when they add those classes in it will even out dunno, not sure how many are willing to wait.

Originally posted by gatheris

funny that he completely ignored - not just side-stepped - but ignored the city part of the questions

are they gone for good?

has this been brought up anywhere else?

 

He did answer the question there's no ETA but the're not cut they're simply not in yet.  Try rereading the first paragraph and the name of the topic.

funny how they are discussing about extra content when the game is so full of bugs and imperfections... and the warhammeralliance forum does not even allow posting about them... they shou