Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
To be fair, that's still a playerbase who deserves to be heard and that's still content SE should want people to run. The fewer people with established characters running it, the worse it is for newer players, that's why the roulette was established in the first place. I agree with you about needing more time to see how this will really affect things, though I also agree with anyone who said we're likely to see a decline in participants.
There will DEFINITELY be a decline. No doubt there. Subtract the speedrunners and the xp/tome crowd and you by all accounts have less players running it. Whether it falls to unmanageable levels is where the rub is. The original reason it was instated goes back to the pool that there was to draw from: individual servers. Now we have datacenter pools instead, this may be manageable now. As you've said though , time will tell.

They do deserve to be heard , as all players do. But when you have people complaining about something that was never really made for them, it just took advantage of them (this sounds bad I know but it seems to be what was done) it's kind of silly. BUT, there is the matter of the solo/unsynched runs having the limitations, which is dumb. That I'll argue was a really bad oversight or decision.