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Originally Posted by Gustoo
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Kunark and Velious are both part of the original vision. It doesn't change the fact that the whole game progression doesn't line up. Kunark obsoletes 90% of old world and Velious kinda does the same thing again except mostly for high end gear.
I think the Kunark -> velious is less world breaking than Vanilla -> Kunark
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Been watching a lot of recent dev interviews lately and this is something a couple of of them gave talked about. One of them acknowledged that the jump in itemization was probably too pronounced, but it was balanced around the new content. Another mentioned that Kunark was originally supposed to be another 50 levels of content but there was an engine limitation that prevented them from going beyond 60 so they had to compress it all down to 10 levels. He noted that the spells you otherwise would have gotten about every 5 levels you got every level instead.
Funny thing about that is, from a business standpoint, it probably worked very well. I was in lower guk on bertoxx the night before Kunark went live and it was packed. Everybody who had been playing plus people who'd taken a break all back jazzed for the new content with everyone chatting about it in ooc. There was a minority but not small number of people insisting that it was not going to be a big deal and they were saving their money. After a week of Gem Encrusted Rings falling from the sky you heard none of that again. You might run into someone waiting because of performance issues or something, but nobody took a pass on anything related to content once word got out about the loot that was dropping, much less showing up in EC tunnel.
What's really funny is more than one of these devs said that the original bar for success was considered 75k players sustained for a year then they expected to just be making a new game. Then, with Kunark, that was going to be the expansion then they were going to make a new game.
That mudflation sells game and expansion boxes tho, evidently.