Quote Originally Posted by RathSkybreaker View Post
The whole point i'm trying to make is A. Right now it's looking for that the level cap will not be raised for a very long time.. B. Right now cap is 50 yeah if everyone is 50 then midcore for this game is gone and right now, nourishing new players is what the game could use.
First of all, the possibility exists (I think it's a remote one, but still) that the cap could be raised before 2.0 comes out. Yoshida hasn't ruled it out.

Second, level 50 could very well end up being the heart of mid-level content once the cap is bumped up a few times. Even in old school FFXI, levels 1 through 50 were relatively painless compared to the next 25. What you think of as mid-level now will be considered low-level once the cap is raised.

And there's plenty of hand-holding content planned for the low level stage of the game in 2.0 already. A fresh new PS3 player won't even remotely have the same experience you knew at all. Trying to preserve it is meaningless.