Level 50 Dungeon Level Syncs

[Kosmos992k]

Not so much opinion as fact... or do you not understand what a precedent is?

I perfectly well understand what a precedent is. I should point out that just as you gave an example of personal experience as precedent, so did I. Are you contending that your personal experience is more factual than mine? Your experience in one game does not make your opinion supported by that experience a fact, and yet that is what you appear to be saying here.

That is why I coined that phrase... because it is a recurring problem throughout of all history. If we are not mindful of the mistakes made in the past, we risk the danger of repeating them. The same applies to successes as well. SE let the harsh restrictions linger too long in XI, and the playerbase (and subscription retention) suffered greatly for it. But, when they provided us a means to manually synch our levels on demand and lifted the caps, they almost instantly revived the game.

So yes... forcing a level synch is restrictive (and not only as a side effect from our human nature, but it is so by it's most basic definition), and as an end result it can lead to more problems than it is meant to correct if not managed properly. Alternatives have been ofered by several others that may sufficiently counter what you have lobbied for that has been shown in the past to be more detrimental then beneficial. But... if you aren't a student of such history, I guess you may never come to understand the value of those lessons that many of us have already learned.

All of this is opinion which you are dressing as fact. Your experience in FFXI is not the only experience with players being overpowered at end-game. I'm not going to reply further to you since a) people would rather attack the wording of my posts than address the merits, and b) you persist in explicitly stating your opinion as fact.