Categories of Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[Matsume]

So I skimmed the ops. new content and end game sections havent seen this question though or any other questions regarding to content lifespan and power creep, so i'm fairly sure its not duplicated

I admit I have yet to incorporate your question on power creeps, however Taika's question you quoted as well as a number of others addressing the same issue have been placed in the "Gear Progression" and "Level Progression" topics in Part II. Progression:

What are the plans for the longevity of end game gear pieces? When a player obtains a current best-in-slot piece, how long will it last as such before something better will be added making that piece obsolete? Are there going to be pieces that will be very difficult and slow to obtain but which will last a long time?

Are you still planning to make most of old content/gear obsolete after every major patch ?

Will ARR be like most MMO these days where people jump to 50 in a week and grow bored of end game content in a month? Do you plan to make ARR along these lines of most mmo these days to appeal to the casuals or will you be stepping back and taking a page from FFXI where leveling was a long process and endgame wasn't "the game" This question also refers to DOL and DOH.

Edit: Keep in mind the sorting of questions by categories is purely subjective on my part and due to the integrated nature of some of these questions, bordering multiple topics, it's hard to place the question in what may be percieved as the most accurate topic, hence some questions are repeated in more than one topic. However, i try to keep the repetitions to a minimum for lack of clutter.

Edit2: I added your question in the Gear Progression topic since you mention best in slot pieces as an example, however I could throw together these four posts and a few others lingering in the end game topic into their own topic (content longevity?)