(Bonus chapter 5/5 for the brother "Maple Leaf Realist")
The changes to the game in the new version had drawn a crowd to the forums, where players discussed them back and forth. But discussions about classes, the interface, and NPCs weren't the main focus. Those topics didn't even account for a tenth of tonight's forum activity.
More people were interested in the "major additions" on the second page of the update announcement.
The new playable races were what players really wanted to talk about. After all, that had been their biggest complaint during the six months since the game's launch.
Although players could currently choose from four human subraces and two vampire factions, the truth was that they clearly wanted more. They truly longed to begin their own heroic lives in Transia as the characters they envisioned.
That was something all players had in common, and a basic demand they had for the development team: "There may be features I don't choose, but you can't leave them out!"
After six months of constant feedback with no concrete response, many players had given up on the idea. They figured the development team might simply not be capable enough to handle the complicated process of developing new races.
But the facts proved that the development team was still the same team that knew how to surprise people.
It wasn't that they lacked the technical ability. They had been saving up all the surprises to drop one enormous "surprise bomb" into every player's heart at once. For instance, the second page of this new version announcement was packed with surprises:
IV. Details on Newly Added Playable Races:
Thanks to all the experimentation and fine-tuning of race templates during the closed beta, the development team had finally mastered the complex process of configuring different