I said this before, and I'll say it again:
You can either ignore this and pretend it is Eurydice ignoring your posts like you are ignoring hers... Or you can take it as sign that, just because they aren't responding to you, doesn't mean they aren't reading what you have to say.

Only people on the testing server have access to the proposed changes. People are reacting based on previous notions, not based on experience with the content. While yes, you can still propose legitimate feedback based on theory, it's not nearly as valuable as those who have actually played with it. OOO doesn't care about theoretically what the changes would cause. They open the test server to see the practical implications of the changes.

Hex, traeve, believe it or not, some people do have working brain cells. Test server access or not, we can tell that the new revs and part of the new loot are bad ideas.

Heat revives are probably the single most common for of revives. If I have to deal with increased monster health from being in a team, I want their heat. If I can't get it, I have no reason to go with a pug team, and all my guild does is grind KoA- boring! Heck half the time I go is to give my guild heat anyways, so even then I don't have a reason then.

I am concerned with how rev costs and these new orbs will affect the stability of the CE market, but I'm not sure even testers could answer that.

However, if I understand it right, not only do we now have to go through every single room instead of being efficient and splitting up, it sounds like if we do split up our loot could disappear before we get to it. What???? Once again, how on earth does this encourage team play?

And to everyone that is like oh it's just the test server it doesn't mean it won't work that way when it comes out: actually, that's *exactly* how OOO has worked for the past 2 years. They have never backed down from their glorious plans despite huge community reactions in several occasions, and everything in test server launched pretty much exactly as it was (I honestly don't remember them even changing the test server versions except for LD)

What if people discuss the aspects of the game that don't explicitly require you to play them? You don't need to play on the testing server to understand how the new loot system will force people to stay together even in maps that you're meant to spread out in, or how the removal of health revives encourages players to fight for themselves and not their team.

Admittedly, there are things that people shouldn't argue about without firsthand experience, like the mechanics of Battle Sprites. You can't just look at them and give any meaningful input. The revised loot and revive systems are a different story entirely, since they're removing existing mechanics as well as introducing new ones that are fully explained. Sparks of Life don't have ranges, damage numbers, and cooldowns.

"But Draycos, what if the Sparks of Life are incredibly cheap?" They won't be. If I remember correctly, Nick stated that the overall costs of alchemy and reviving won't be too heavily influenced by these changes.

Maybe I should explicitly state this...

I don't agree with the policy of shutting down discussion of the upcoming patch in the general discussion, but I can understand their reasoning. You have to admit, it was getting out of hand. You can either take the conspiracy approach, where OOO is just trying to repress player's opinion, or they're just trying to calm things down so they can gather and collect well-thought-out criticism.