SE, Please slow down on swinging the NERF bat!

[Sephirah]

Not a single word was shoved into your mouth. Your eyes, maybe, but not your mouth. I was addressing many other people who shared the quoted sentiment above. It's the elitist attitude in an MMO. We all pay the same amount for the game, therefore it is to be expected that we will all have access to the game. Some disagree.

Your $15 a month entitles you to absolutely nothing but access to your character and the servers. If you think that means you get the have equal gear and experience the same content as people that have been working for it, then I'm sorry but not even Yoshi agrees with you. The only part of the game they intend to be accessible by EVERYONE is the main story. Everything after that is gated, and you need to progress through it to see it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielta...ax-prime-2013/

Q:Is there going to be a traditional MMORPG structure where a small percentage of the player base has access to endgame content? How accessible is the endgame content?

It’s like a stairway. We have first the level 50 story, we want everyone to be able to do that. And then the content steps up. If you complete this, you can move on to the next tier. And since this is a MMORPG, when new content comes in other players can start to take on older content. Things can be scaled through patches so that most players can access the content, but there will also be top-tier challenges for the hardcore players because we respect them as well.

He also says that eventually the content will be nerfed to be more accessible, which is fine, but that's assuming they've added something new that isn't nerfed.