08-20-2006, 01:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2006, 01:19 AM by Chesspiece_face.)
Quote:Blizzard will probably bolster the original racials 6-9 months after the expansion is released. Part of the reason they're giving the new races such crazy racials is to motivate rolling and rerolling as BE/Draenei. Once a sufficient population has been established then they can buff the existing racials.
They may take that route. but i don't think they would have to. nor do i think they will. If they boost the existing races abilities i think it will happen with the expac. there will be enough people rolling the new races just based on new content. people would reroll these races even if they updated the racial abilities. they really don't need to create additional insentive.
now, whether people keep playing the new characters after they've gotten a feel for the content is a totally different story.
edit: not only that, but the more i think about it the better it looks for them to rebalance the racials at the expac release. They are going to have a decent population of players coming back into the game that have left looking to play their existing characters. The revamped racials when added to the new 60-70 content and new talants would keep these individuals playing longer. Take into account that this group has already quit once and as a company blizzard should do as much as possible to keep the new game attractive to them.