Quote Originally Posted by Biggs View Post
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