Some games tend to create many occupations for player to choose. It sounds plausible as it offers more game choices and more game freedom. But it also make players confused about which one to choose. It is one thing to give player clear and useful choices as they develope their character yet it is another thing to give them many meaningless choices and make them feel unsure about which one to choose. Also despite of many occupations, there are only certain number of skills that are true useful in combat or gameplay and it is harder to make these skills arranged in different occupations to make the game balanced if the game has too many of them. The worst scenario is that the player picks some weak occupation and missed all the important skills. The player then basically needs to rebuild a new character, wasting all the time he or she previously invested.
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Tree of Savior is a 2.5D based MMORPG. Its biggest feature is that in the game there are many classes for player to choose. For example, if player wants to use magic, then he can choose Wizzard, Mage and then proceed to Linker, Psychokino, Elementalist, Sorcerer and many other classes that cast damage spells. Among these occupations, however, are only a few truly useful and powerful occupations that are welcomed in Raids or PvP. These many occupations make player feel excited first, but then players get confused about which one to choose. Should they choose wrong and spend much time develop their character, they will find themselvs hard to join a Raid and play PvP. Superfluous class degisn in this game make it seemingly good, but bad inside.
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Age is a MMORPG and there are totally 120 classes in it. At the first glimpse, it seems to be exciting because players have so many choices that the game must be in great diversity. However, when players are actually playing the game, they will find most of the classes they spent a lot of time to choose carefully are not welcomed in Raids or PVP because it's really hard to balance among so many classes. As a result, there is only a few occupations used by most of the players and the players that insist on other classes are hard to find a group. This is really frustrating because players actually do not have so much choices but they wasted a lot of time.