Quote Originally Posted by AuctionGirl View Post
With ONLY Horizontal Progression, you soon limit the amount of players types you are targeting.

With BOTH Horizontal & Vertical Progression, you have the ability to target every player type in the game.

If the vertical progression is too slow, you will lose players. So making sure vertical progression keeps at a constant, and horizontal progression fills in the blanks. This will lead to the most successful game.

You have to be careful with implementation of the new content to be able to reuse some of the old, as to keep it all important. This gives new players things to do, along with old players helping the new players or just doing it cause it was fun.
I'm willing to go down this route, if need be. What I don't want is a repeat of the cap being the same for several years.

Something else I see here is "I don't want to level again". I don't see much of a problem with it, unless you're looking at leveling from a PoV where you expect leveling to be grind parties and only grind parties. In such a context, leveling is obviously going to be only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.