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Originally Posted by Seths
Thanks for continuing to push the things put on hold during beta out to us.

Any word on Berserker or Hero classes? Or did they for sure get moved into the first expansion.

Like I've already posted, financial realities were such that we needed to release when we did. We did our best to get as much time as possible and we feel bad that the game could have used a few more months in beta. But what is done is done.

As we've always said, there will be a Live and Expansion team, with the Live team committed to updating, adding to, and refreshing the existing world. They will also be adding classes, new areas, new mobs, updating the AI, continue to optimize, etc. So the Berserker and Inquisitor would be items that would fall into the Live team. The first expansion is some time away and will add new land masses and include some major new features. The smaller stuff, while certainly important, will be added over time with patches.

Right now much of our focus is on bug fixing, balancing, etc. But that's not everybody. For example, while the design team is tweaking things, they are also adding new content, working on classes, etc. It's a balancing game -- how much effort do you put into bug fixes, tweaks, etc. vs. how many assets do you allocate to adding cool new things to the game. Right now, this soon after launch, there are more resources allocated to fixing things than how things will be a couple of months from now. But as you can see with our first major update we patched in, by no means are we only fixing things. We're doing our best to balance our resources and I think, overall, we're doing a decent job at it. Eventually more and more resources will be allocated to new mechanics, features, classes, NPCs, new areas in the existing world, etc. It will be a slow transition where as issues and bugs are addressed, more resources will be transitioned into new stuff and not just addressing bugs and other problematic issues. But it will happen.

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