Thief No Longer Featuring XP System

<p>Eidos Montreal has stated via a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;community&period;eidosmontreal&period;com&sol;blogs&sol;Take-5-QA-4">community Q&amp&semi;A session<&sol;a> that the upcoming title&comma; <em>Thief<&sol;em>&comma; will not feature an XP system&period;  Daniel Windfeld Schmidt&comma; lead level designer and Nic Gantin&comma; game director&comma; for the title remarked the decision to remove the system was made due to fan reactions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked about the negative fans reactions to the &&num;8220&semi;Headshot XP&&num;8221&semi; seen during a gameplay demo of <em>Thief<&sol;em> during E3&comma; Schmidt stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Fans might be surprised how often the devs go to the forum to see how things are perceived in the &&num;8220&semi;real world&&num;8221&semi;&period; This feedback is extremely valuable to us&comma; so as you can imagine&comma; the consistent reaction to the XP system was something that indicated we needed to revisit some design decisions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cantin added&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It is more a design decision to add to our economy system and entice the player to steal more&period; But yes&comma; the E3 reaction was right&comma; rewarding killing like that was wrong for a Master Thief&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The design of the game will focus more on having users steal&comma; with Cantin stating&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The goal is to use gold to buy elements to progress&comma; to encourage the player to steal&period; The player will be able to choose how to spend money&comma; for more stealthy or more aggressive tools&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Thief <&sol;em>will be out on Feb 25&comma; 2014 for NA and Feb 28 for Australia and Europe&comma; for the PS3&comma; PS4&comma; Xbox 360&comma; Xbox One and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;ba51dc22-2390-4861-9098-51e92649fc8a" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;