Level cap increase every 1-2 years.

[Ichi]

The mess-up kinda does matter when the mess-up is the key part of the argument. The reason why people participated in ToAU and later expansions was because of upgrades. People wouldn't be doing that instanced crap over and over for years for simple side-grades. These new upgrades are what led to old content being outdated. That was my original argument since I entered the thread. People stopped doing Sky and Sea outside of the typical farming out of boredom or for that 1 person who might need something, LOOOONNNGGG before Abyssea came about. That was my response to, "Abyssea killed the need to go back to Sky/Sea/<insert any previous expansion>."

This is why I said, "The only people who think this either didn't play before ToAU, or they're looking through rose-tinted glasses." Sky became irrelevant long before Abyssea. Whether there was one piece of gear there or not, it was still out-dated and the vast majority of players had moved on. It's like how kings stopped being spawn camped by every major LS on the server once you could get that same stuff elsewhere. Does that mean nobody does the content? No. But people still do level 60, 70, and 80 content in WoW too, which is why this isn't really an argument about level caps as much as it is an argument about upgrades ruining old content.

I think you are looking through shit tinted glasses. The so called upgrades, are circumstantial that is a fact you can't say that people still played ffxi for upgrades when marduk jubbah, kirin osode, and sha'ir manteel all had circumstantial advantages over each other and all came from different eras of the game. Those are just a couple examples of multiple pieces of gear being ideal for the same class. It comes down to preference where as in a game that vertically progresses at too fast a rate would only hold the newest of these items as the best.

You can say whatever you want about those examples but the fact is that each one served better than the other in it's own conditional situation and you can't say which conditional situation is more important because you're not playing for me I know what I need not you.

People may still do the low level stuff in WoW but they sure as hell aren't doing it for gear, and if there's no gear in it then i sure as hell wouldn't do it either. I'm not voicing my opinion in the assumption that i speak for the welfare of the game (and your stupid if you think your opinion is different), i voice my opinion for me and my enjoyment.