Thread: Patch 2.2: Let's Copy the Worst Practice of MMOs From the Last 10 Years...

... invalidating all your old content by continuously raising item levels (eventually raising the level cap with every expansion) and thereby removing any sense of previous accomplishment for what we have achieved. No one will be able to come in and see how tough Twintania was to beat in 2.0 or even 2.1... now they will know Twintania as a boss on par with 2.1 CT's final boss. So those high end allagan weapons that marked you as having beaten Twintania? That sense of accomplishment is part of why a lot of people play an MMO, and the devs are trampling that into the dirt when they do stuff like this. Didn't they learn from the mistake they made with raising the level cap in FFXI? What drew me to FFXIV: ARR were the small, but important differences it had from western MMOs, and the potential for it to take a different approach to the problems that had come before. Instead, they are going to repeat the worst mistake Blizzard made by continually raising item levels and the level cap. If this is the only time they are doing this, then fine, but I see no sign of them stopping.