Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
If, on the other hand, they create both hard and easier versions and maintain both of them, regardless of whether players get to it the day it's released or a couple years later, then it's the players themselves getting to choose how they want to pursue that content. In terms of what's being developed, and even what needs to be done to earn the content's rewards, it's no different from the hard version early, nerfed version later pattern, except for disentangling that pattern from the timing of when the content is available.
This is all I want, honestly. I didn't start playing until September of last year, so by the time I got to Second Coil, it had already been nerfed-- and I was mad, because I wanted to try the unnerfed version but was cheated out of it simply because I started playing at the wrong time. It wasn't even a matter of not having much time to play, it was a matter of getting started late.

It's hardly fair that the players who start playing when content is no longer brand-new are forced into nerfed versions of it whether they like it or not.