Quote Originally Posted by synaesthetic View Post
What do you think will happen next? Actually wait, I'll go ahead and answer for you, since thinking is clearly too hard for you. The people locked behind deprecated tiers will simply give up and unsubscribe.
History has shown otherwise. In WoW 90 some odd % of players never saw AQ, BT, etc and yet this didn't stop them from gaining over 10 millions subs by the end of Burning Crusade. Burning Crusade era WoW had punishing dungeon difficulty and raid attunements. Difficult / gated content doesn't hurt the game. If the game is good enough (which this isn't) it doesn't matter how far off the carrot is.
As far as I can tell, this game is so damned shallow and poorly designed that they are knee jerk reacting and scrambling to keep subs. Nerf the content so fast and many veteren MMO players will leave.
What you're left with are the diehards, unskilled casuals, FF fanboys and curious newcomers.
Doesn't look too promising at this point.