Quote Originally Posted by Kaethra View Post
The only reason to have lockouts is a lack of design initiative. That's it. The game has a monthly cost. They need to keep players subbed, which means spreading out the goal of that sub. In this case, its gearing through content.

This idea to prevent player burnout is false. Players will only ever play as much as they want to.
You're thinking about this entirely in the context of yourself. Even if burnout didn't exist, lockouts still have an important function: allowing people to keep up. If being able to play 8 hours a day makes you significantly better than being able to play 2 hours a day, you're going to create multiple classes of players. And the 2-hour-a-day players far outnumber the 8-hour-a-day players, so that would be very bad for business.