This type of thing basically killed RIFT, and people hated it in WoW...If it's not really severe then whatever I guess but honestly that's going to stress people out more and probably cater to elitism in the community, like it did in those two games. I think it's pretty lame that they just come up with "solutions" to these issues without really getting any idea what the community as a whole feels about it and thinking about alternatives that don't force gate content to players.