Prepared to answer the call? (Long)

[TheVedis]

In a way, this community may be more closed off by the time 2.0 rolls out than many MMOs before it. What would be worse than a huge group of new people joining, injecting some more life into the game, only to be run off by the current player base? Trying to buy low level gear right now on my server is ridiculous. It has certainly gotten better since the introduction of a history but, there aren't enough low level things for sale in the Ul'dah wards to make a head to toe outfit from cheaply at the optimal level. Things like that will only get worse as SE brings out higher level content that moves the current and only player base foward. We have the makings here of some serious gaps in wealth and class that could easily hinder new players and their first time experience with the game.

Your suggestion to adopt a newb is spot on, and exactly the kind of attitude any of our communities could use.

some people like myself are gonna flood the market with cheap low level gear when 2.o comes out so i dont think this is gonna be as bad an issue as you may think it will be

it only takes 1 person to do it too regardless of how many see it as a profit machine

[Biggs]

some people like myself are gonna flood the market with cheap low level gear when 2.o comes out so i dont think this is gonna be as bad an issue as you may think it will be

it only takes 1 person to do it too regardless of how many see it as a profit machine

Yeah, i suppose i should have figured that even with the low population numbers as a whole, most of the people that have stayed have the entrepreneurial spirit. I remember when the game first came out, EVERYONE was crafting. FOr a while it looked like every nation was preparing to go to war. It was awsome. I bet once the PS3 gets close, we may see a bit of this with people making a ton of gear for relaunch. Regardless whether its for profit or just to help out, it would be nice to be able to gear out some other low level jobs appropriatly instead of running around looking like someone colorblind dressed me.