Project Lead up on whiteboard, all caps: HOW DO WE MAKE PEOPLE SPEND MORE TIME IN GAME? ACTIVISION WILL PULL SUPPORT IF THE USERBASE KEEPS DROPPING! Aspiring developer: *giggle* I know! Let's reset some of their progress if they wish to progress! *giggle* Project lead: Great idea! Let's pilot it to exotics only, for now. Also make sure that we force players into both crucible AND coop if they ever wish to get their hands on new legendaries. I'm tired of hearing that our crucible players don't go to Venus for some bloom jobs. DeeJ: You guys are -blam!-ing killing me here... Do you play this game you dimwit coding bastards? Cause I've got at least 3 million players with an average 300 hours per player. Those are your hardcore fans that didn't migrate into FC4, DA, or GTAV. They're still pissed about the raid, they just got the buffs they wanted, and I don't even know how to begin explaining these changes when the whole community, i.e. our customers, is expecting fixes first. Project lead: Just throw one of your so called feedback posts, have them dump their anger into it and soon this will all gloss over, like it always has. DeeJ: They're getting pretty sick and tired of that too. For crying out loud, we just gave them a sweet update. Look at this data: Thorn ownership and max level went from 17% to around 68% in a matter of one week. You're basically backstabbing all those users who just farmed the heck out of this weapon to enjoy in the new raid. Now you're telling them to either live with it as is, or completely reset its progress if they want it at its peak? Aspiring developer: Exactly! They will spend more time in game! DeeJ: Shut up you inbred code monkey, you started all this. You couldn't think of adding more events or creating a 6 player hard patrol mode? All good ideas that came from them through me, and it would have tripled server time. Why do I even attend this damn meeting? I'm not really adding value here if you're not listening to me. Project lead: Just do your job. We are going through with this. DeeJ: Off I go to be the scapegoat once more. Next time at least buy me dinner and drinks first. [i]Edit: Totally didn't expect this to catch on (let alone an official reply from DeeJ himself). Thanks to all who took this in with a smile on their face.[/i]