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Posted: Sep 13th 2009 10:12AM (Unverified) said

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"Kyle Horner (@KyleHorner) - Lots of Champions Online for me this weekend. Free Retcons, hurray! My early start character really did need it and now I can actually play him."

Yet no one and no review yet talks about how in a supposed "Casual MMO" a person can damage a character enough that it's unplayable without a respec?

Swear every review of CO has been of the Open/HS, not one I've read reflect's the game that's been going since launch day.

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Posted: Sep 13th 2009 12:21PM Aganazer said

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I bet that most people that needed the respec had serious flaws to begin with in their character's build. Most of these people that needed it had only been playing for a very short time. Anytime you have such a flexible character building system it is going to take a few tries to get it figured out.

Pre-patch god-mode let players get away with having poor builds. Now you need to have a better plan for your character. I'd be willing to bet that most people's supposedly 'unplayable' characters would be fine to play, but now they simply know how to build one better so they prefer not to play that character.

Also, why are you assuming that 'casual' has to mean easy and thoughtless with no consequences? Casual gamers want the game to be as deep, complex, and challenging as anyone else. They just prefer to do it in shorter bursts.
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Posted: Sep 13th 2009 12:00PM (Unverified) said

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