Rank cap increase every 1-2 years discussion thread

[Sol_Aureus]

That's what I was arguing though. If they sit at the cap and all new gear comes out as sidegrades or minor upgrades, they run the risk of people not caring about new content because it's not worth the effort. It's a lot harder to come up with good designs for new content that both doesn't obsolete old content AND doesn't come out obsolete itself.

But FFXI still managed to. When new content came out, there was always something that people wanted from the new content. Hydra wasn't camped that much, but I assume the other 2 were (I never did HNMs, so I could be completely wrong).

While they definitely run the risk of people not caring about new content if they don't raise the level cap and keep everything sidegrades, they guarantee that people will not care about the old content anymore if they do continuously raise the level cap.