Quote Originally Posted by Sapience View Post
The original concept was to have the class purchase include the Gift of the Valar. This of course would mean the cost of the GOTV would have been included in the price of the class. With the change, the class can now be less expensive and start at level 1 and we're exploring the option of a class + GOTV bundle which would have been what the original level 50 start would have been.

Best of both worlds.
Even better, players will not be (necessarily) choosing to run through The Shire or Archet or Ered Luin with a level 50 character wiping out everything they see as Beornings-in-bear-form which might preserve some of the starter experience for those who can now choose to play the game "as it was meant to be played" in the sense that once the class is released, a player coming in would not have any idea it wasn't part of the original vision.

This was a great decision because it's fair to the most people.