📌 Feedback – Full Wipes Are Discouraging, Soft Wipes Would Be Enough

One of the most discouraging aspects for many players right now is investing a large amount of time into progression, knowing it can all be erased with a full wipe.

Vendor progression, city development, research, and long-term PvE goals require significant time and effort. Losing everything after dozens (or hundreds) of hours feels less like a reset and more like punishment, which directly hurts motivation and long-term retention.

For many players, this leads to a simple conclusion:

Why invest time at all, if all progress will be lost anyway?

🔄 A Soft Wipe Would Already Be Enough

A soft wipe would solve most of the problems without killing motivation:

• Reset character stash

• Reset character inventory & equipped gear

• Reset character level / XP

While keeping:

• Vendors

• Cities / Lodge / Research

• Campaign progress

• Utility unlocks

This would:

• Refresh the economy

• Reset power gaps

• Encourage fresh seasonal starts
  👉 Without erasing long-term PvE investment

⚠️ If Full Wipes Are Kept…

If full wipes are absolutely necessary, then the rewards must justify the loss.

That means:

• Much stronger and more meaningful seasonal rewards

• Permanent unlocks that clearly respect the time invested

• Cosmetics or account-wide bonuses that feel proportional to the grind

Right now, the time investment is heavy, but the long-term payoff is not.
This imbalance is what causes burnout and makes players quit instead of returning for the next season.

🎯 Why This Matters

• PvE players are not motivated by constant resets

• Repeating the exact same progression every season quickly becomes exhausting

• A soft wipe still preserves balance without destroying player attachment

A system that respects time investment will always retain more players than one that repeatedly deletes it.

If you want, I can:

• Make this shorter and more direct

• Adapt it to sound more technical / dev-focused

• Merge it with the previous vendors & cities feedback into one strong post