Level squish?

[bubblesbutternut]

Do you think this will ever happen, or will they keep sticking another 10 levels on every expac?

depends on the engine they use and because it is an online game with servers overlapping each other, to help fix some of the issues with the overwhelming amount of information that was being issue to the x player to the server and server to x player,
examples of fixes
reducing hp of x player
reducing hp of x mobs
reducing dps numbers of x player
reducing dps numbers of x mob
reducing items drop for x player
rudcing item drop by x mob
to make dungeons smoother for example they removed exp and items and i think items aswell, this is reduce the amount of information being passed from x player to the server and the server to the player making the instance smoother for the player and server
the entire game got this not just the player the reasons are are of course if you squish the player you must also squish the ai and they did so accordingly.
will they do this again in the future it honestly depends will they have to will they have enough servers to compensate for the amount of information being passed, will the game engine be able to handle it.
will the game run still be a mmo before they have to do another full squish who knows,will ffxiv still retain that amount of players for them to consider such a thing who knows

in all honestly to speculate now as a player would not matter to much other than to let the devs know we are concerned about server performance in the future
this would be more up to the dev team to speculate over because they have the resources the numbers the hardware and the software they are the ones that will have to decide in the future if it ever gets to the point again were they have to do such a thing

also after thought Reinha does have a fair point level squish would not matter to much in the grand scheme of things the item level will still continue to go up and up so the numbers of damage from x mob or x player will still continue to go higher and higher
the only thing i would say it would maybe cleaner in the coding and more easy to set x item level to x player level so they can get the job done faster and cleaner