Quote Originally Posted by Demon6324236 View Post
I see the opposite, the majority of new players I have met are happy they can skip to the meat of the game, looking forward to every update and happy they are able to play and participate with the majority of other players rather than being left out of the loop.
I can confirm this from pretty much every account of a new player I've heard since the level cap increase. I don't know why you had contrary experiences, it doesn't add up to me. The new players don't miss old EXP, because most of them don't know what it was. The few of them who do (returning players) are amazed, because they only made level 30 or 40 or something back in the day, and now they're level 99 in a few days of work, so they're excited about the jump. That has been my sole experience, I don't remember anyone off the top of my head who said anything else.