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Thanks for writing that letter.



I have faith in you people at Daybreak. I know there are some people that are doomsayers, that claim this or that and I can imagine it is discouraging to hear. But I hope you do not take it the wrong way, people are just worried about something they love, afraid that something bad will happen to it. It's easy for many to forget that there's real, living people that are working on the game, presumably in a smaller workforce than back when SOE was the own handling this IP and trying to do the best they can with what they got. It's my personal belief that most developers are passionate about what they do, for the gaming industry can a difficult place to live in as it's not at all financially secure, not to mention that you usually have the wishes of both publishers and fans to deal with, wishes that often clash together. And that's on top of the stress that I imagine a lot of developers go trough.



I may be wrong, but I assume most, if not all, of you could have entered other lines of work, one that might be more financially secure and with less risk of losing your job but you chose to instead work with something you love and have a passion in. I know I've heard developers say it before, and I believe it when they say that it's an industry you must have a passion for if you're going to enter it as part of a developer team.



I dunno, maybe this is the wrong place to write this in, but I just wanted to say that despite the negativity some harbour, a lot of people have high hopes for you and I hope you can feel some encouragement and happiness knowing that there are a lot of individuals that are looking forward to what you're making, even if it may not seem so at first if you look at how active the forums and reddit are. I'm sure some of you are worried that what you're making might not be good enough, but I'd say it's better to try your best than to worry about what happens after. At least, if you try your best, you can take comfort in that you did what you could. Of course, taking breaks sometimes is the best thing to do, as someone studying programming I've learned the importance of taking breaks rather than sit and smash your head against a desk.



You could say this was a letter of my own I suppose, one to the people at Daybreak.



I wish you the best of luck and I look forward to future updates,

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