Quote Originally Posted by KaiKatzchen View Post
I think raising the cap every 1-2 years is a wonderful idea! It means that SE will have to continue evolving the game to keep up with the ever changing levels in the game which will probably mean:

-New gear coming out for new ranks
-New recipes for crafters
-New areas for gatherers
-New areas, hopefully new mobs as well
-New dungeons and other content
-New abilities
-New skills
-New challenges
-New NM's for higher rank

This will keep hardcore players who DO want new things to fill their time with interested.

As for Midcore and Casual, usually they just want to have fun... and since the game will constantly expand every 1-2 years, they as well will never run out of things to do.

I see no negatives to this... and at least they aren't pulling a FFXI where everyone worked hard for like 6+ years totally pimping out their characters and spending tons of money and time to to Dyna etc to get the best of the best.... then get told:

"oh yeah we know you've been doing all of this for sooooo many years... but we are gonna add like 20+ levels to the game.. yeah... sorry."


At least we know it's coming, that the game will evolve and change with additions every 1-2 years, and we will have new challenges.

Love the idea!
In theory, yes it is a good idea.

In practice, increasing level cap actually has a detrimental effect/

It reduces the number of events to only the one, or two, newly released events. It also obliterates the prospect of gear which require a long term plan to obtain. Entire dungeons and nm/hnm become obsolete over night. Crafting recipy's considered good, pre-update, are now obsolete and only the newest and greatest is ever made.

Really, raising level caps have bad effects on games, and should be done as a last resort. It is the developers essentially giving up. A prime example of this that most of us share is ffxi. It went for years, and years, without the need for raising the cap. And, by every measure, it was among the most successful mmo's in history. Now, post level cap increase, it is a shell of its former self.