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Good points all, and nobody is doubting the willingness of this game's community (mostly) to help out players...but it is a very odd design choice, ESPECIALLY if they intend to draw in new players to their game with all the noise being made about their expansion.
It's gating. Gating is never taken well, and it's taken even less well when there are dozens of other MMOs that don't pull the same stunt.
Despite whatever amounts of nerfing are done, if someone is going to buy the game because they think the Machinist is cool, and then they find out that the Machinist is not only not available at character creation, but requires you to go through the entire game's story? Nothing about the community or the nerfs done or anything else will be heard. All you'll hear that person speak about is how this game is a ripoff because the new classes are walled behind 50+ levels of crap.
It's gating. Gating is never taken well, and it's taken even less well when there are dozens of other MMOs that don't pull the same stunt.
Despite whatever amounts of nerfing are done, if someone is going to buy the game because they think the Machinist is cool, and then they find out that the Machinist is not only not available at character creation, but requires you to go through the entire game's story? Nothing about the community or the nerfs done or anything else will be heard. All you'll hear that person speak about is how this game is a ripoff because the new classes are walled behind 50+ levels of crap.