131456-class-unlocks-for-races

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so i want to play certain classes but i like to play some races that don't have these options.  will there ever be a possibility to buy unlocks for certain classes within a race? 
 
for example: an Aurin warrior or medic, or a Granok spellslinger?  i would buy these unlocks.  lol   
 
 
 
 
 	
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Not anytime soon as it requires lots of coding (afaik) and they have more important things to worry about  ^_^
However devs are listening and they said that it will happen at some point.
 
Take a look at this thread for more info  ;)	
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			Also it goes by Lore	
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Also it goes by Lore
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			Would be boring if everything was available from the start, and it is pretty unlikely that a game gets released after everything was taken care of. If I were a programmer of Carbine, I would do it just this way - go live earlier, add more later.	
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Would be boring if everything was available from the start, and it is pretty unlikely that a game gets released after everything was taken care of. If I were a programmer of Carbine, I would do it just this way - go live earlier, add more later.
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Oh, yes. Because waiting for a year or more before your desired class combination is released by the developers is so much fun! Imagine the horror: How bored would we be if we didn't have to wait for our desired class-race combination to be actually developed? That's clearly what makes it so fun. Waiting for the developers to actually put the thing in the game. And if they were available, that'd be so much fun wasted!
 
Just to be clear: the fun from unlocking things comes from the reward after invested effort or from the activity itself. Having all the titles available from the beggining wouldn't be fun, for example, because those are the carrot on the stick for doing certain weird activities. Gear is another such thing: you invest effort into an activity (and probably get fun out of it), and then you get your reward: a shiny piece of gear.
This isn't the case with class-race combiantions, is it? The player cannot unlock them by any means available. They simply do not exist in the game; they cannot be unlocked. If the player has no activity to unlock them, then there's no invested effort and no engagement from their part. There's also no reward. Thus, unlocking the class-race combination cannot be any fun at all to players because there is no such a thing as 'unlocking' the class. It's just a switch the developers will turn on their own and suddenly PUFF! New class combos.
Does that really sound like fun to you?	
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Oh, yes. Because waiting for a year or more before your desired class combination is released by the developers is so much fun!
Does that really sound like fun to you?
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Humorously, Skyforge locks classes behind MONTHS of grinding, and it fell flat after the first week, as Americans started figuring out that if they wanted to play (say) a Berserker or Warlock, that it was going to take potentially up to 18 weeks of daily, near-uninterrupted playing to reach that goal.
 
So, it might *seem* like locking players out of their desired classes is a great idea, really all it does is disenfranchise people who might otherwise be thoroughly engaged.
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Not really, no.
 
When the devs come right out and admit that it was time constraints, and not Lore, that made us have racial locks, then pretty much everyone who insists it's a "Lore Reason" is just ... well ... wrong. Wrong as can be.
 
When you can see Chua Warriors and Drakken Engineers, when you can encounter them in the Live, Actual Game, then pretty much everyone who insists it's a "Lore Reason" is likewise just as wrong.
 
There is no reason ... NO REASON AT ALL ... why Wildstar has racial class locks except for lack of time pre-launch to animate every combination.
 
The price we pay for having NCSoft at the controls. Get the game out ASAP and let the community deal with whatever arbitrary restrictions we give them.
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Of course, I've come to have SERIOUS doubts about any "promises to look at things in the future" from this company. Pretty much every "promise to revisit the issue" has been an empty, hallow, pointless exercise in frustration.
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Time constraints may be the reason we didn't get every class for every race, but I think lore influenced which races got which classes.
 
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They *had* to make choices.
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thanks for the feedback everyone.  I posted this because I was excited to make a new character last night and stared at the screen (for 30 minutes) trying to decide what to do since the class I wanted to play was unavailable for the race that I wanted to play.  I ended up not making anything.  I will probably make one anyway but I am worried I will not be happy while grinding my way to 50 and then not finish it.  I am not asking for an insta-50 or any shortcuts to the game.  I just want to use the race I like.  If I could purchase the option from the online shop I would.  ;)
 
cheers all.	
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And just to be clear, I am not asking for race changes within the faction (dominion granok or exile chua) as this would be a lore issue.  I just want to be able to play any class with the race that I choose.  From what I see I could be a tank with a chua engineer, but I can't be a chua warrior? 
 
I understand if it was time restraints that locked us down.  Just throwing it out there that it is something I would love personally.
 
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Time constraints may be the reason we didn't get every class for every race, but I think lore influenced which races got which classes.
 
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...  but I can't be a chua warrior? 
 
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I'm not sure we can count the NPC because they are by definition mooks. While we have all seen Aurin carrying rifles, for example, I've never seen them using bruiser bots. The same applies to most other weapon. Just like in real life, anyone can pick up an object and use it to bash people in the head with it.
Though I heard there is a certain boss that is a Chua stalker in an adventure or something? I never play those, so I might be mistaken
 
But yeah, there's no such thing as a good lore reason for the restrictions. The biggest flaw on that justification is the Mordesh 'Mesmer' you meet early in Galeras, who uses something way too similar to Esper powers to not be one.
			
				
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But yeah, there's no such thing as a good lore reason for the restrictions. The biggest flaw on that justification is the Mordesh 'Mesmer' you meet early in Galeras, who uses something way too similar to Esper powers to not be one.
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Well, I disagree with that first part. No less boring than being forced to play a race/class combination that doesn't appeal to you.
 
And the second part is exactly what we were told, way back in Black Ops Beta.
 
Of course, I've come to have SERIOUS doubts about any "promises to look at things in the future" from this company. Pretty much every "promise to revisit the issue" has been an empty, hallow, pointless exercise in frustration.
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GW2 has all race class unlocked at the start ...
 
i dont mind restrictions on that though	
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