My completely serious prediction: Several weeks of players burning down the forums accompanied by threats to rage unsub, as well as a handful of people who actually do unsub. The next tier comes out and most people find it really doesn't matter much (assuming SE actually adjusts the difficulty to account for the fact that everyone has full 500 gear to start). Over time it does hurt participation rates for savage and player retention a bit, but the majority of the people who already do savage continue to do savage and the long term impact on the game is fairly minor, although perhaps not utterly negligible. Eventually some of the people who rage quit over this may come back too and find out it's not as bad as they thought.
Oh, there would also be sub loss among more casual players who can now go to a vendor to instantly get a full set of more or less BiS gear instead of spending a few weeks grinding for it, but as long as you give them other content to do repeatedly, they'd be fine. A lot of them would be fine even if you didn't give them other content to do.
Those several weeks will be hilarious though.
Last edited by Nixxe; 10-28-2020 at 12:38 AM.
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