The last Sylvari
They aren’t going to remove a playable race, that would be dumb beyond words.
This is terrible. It’ll fit right in with the rest of the living story, which is also terrible. No MMO has done it before because it’s a bad idea and the backlash would be immense.
(edited by Leaf.3156)
MMOs haven’t done it before because for years and years the race you picked in an MMO dictated a lot of things about what kind of character you were going to play, either by setting up your stats or by dictating your available classes. This game has no such restrictions and there is basically no reason they couldn’t do it.
Would it bum a lot of people out? Probably. Would it be interesting and dynamic? Absolutely. The closest I think any game has come to such a thing is maybe Second Life with their removal of last names after a certain period of time and I can’t tell you how cool it feels to be one of 5 people with a last name in an entire world.
That said, I sincerely doubt they’ll do it and it’s mostly a resource concern. If they got rid of Sylvari and added a new race they would still need to keep all the Sylvari character assets they have in place. Every new user would be downloading all the Sylvari HQ visual data without access to the race from a playable standpoint. In addition they would need to continually update and upgrade the graphics on various armors for an ever dwindling userbase.
I’d be on board if they started removing player races personally, but from a technical standpoint, I doubt it’ll happen. Storywise: Possible | Technically: Unlikely | Playerbase: Would throw a big whiny fit like they do over everything
(edited by Xeno Mezphy.3145)
But, my Sylvari would be devastated…I hope she won’t commit suicide after watching her entire race pretty much go up in flames like a certain quarian for those unlucky enough to have seen that scene….
There are sooo many scenes in that game that I had to watch on Youtube just because I couldn’t bring myself to do it in-game. Shooting Mordin and Wrex’s death if you betray him are two more.