114727-why-are-100-working-game-updates-in-limbo-until-drop-3

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Recent dev posts have pointed out that Drops are supposed to be for content-related changes.  This makes sense.  Along that same line of thinking, there are a lot of changes that are not linked to content that should be de-coupled from the drop process and applied to the live game ASAP.
 
AP scaling, itemization, and rune changes, even the class balance changes.  These changes seem nearly 100% worked out on PTR builds.  At the very least they are as bug-free as the current systems on live.  So why are they being linked to drop 3 and held for months when they are working properly on PTR?
 
With the success of the ability/amp point changes in a weekly patch, and many players on the fence about re-subbing in the coming week.  Do something about it.  Put in the time to separate these things from the content drop and apply them in a patch before the drop.  It is realistically what a lot of people are interested in anyway.
 
I am asking for these to be applied before November:
AP scaling changes
Itemization changes
Rune system
Class Balance
Please, please do this.  I'm afraid that my 50~ish guild that is 6/6 and ready to hit Datascape will lose too many players in the coming weeks because there is literally nothing for them to do.  Please.	
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It must be some sort of miraculous cosmic coincidence that nothing is actually ready yet and won't be until mysteriously everything is ready... because they've told us over and over again that they are not holding content/fixes and under no circumstances is it to try to put together one big bundle to make a media splash.
 
And weirdly, I sorta believe them, because no one could think early November was a good time to try an make a splash, since a "Wildstar super-fix-all Drop" would be spitting into a hurricane with the blockbusters like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and heck even their own sibling Guild Wars 2 having carved out that time for their big splashes.	
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			They're not "decoupled" because in many cases they can't be. It's not like installing apps on your phone where you can add or delete at will. Certain changes are tied to other changes, or as a whole are designed to work with certain back end changes that aren't part of the current build.I've seen far too many people lately who clearly don't understand how revision control systems work, or how a complicated piece of software like an MMO is put together who make sweeping statements like the OPs.As they've also said (in posts you've chosen to ignore) just because its on the PTR and working doesn't mean its fully ready and can be 'decoupled' from the rest of the Drop.	
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Please keep all feedback regarding the state of the game to the active threads we already have instead of creating new posts. There's this one here for the state of the game, and you can put your feedback regarding content updates in there too. Please keep in mind that there will be more information coming next week as we clarify some of the information and answer some questions. 
 
Thank you. 
 
- Team WildStar 	
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