Quote Originally Posted by Zeila View Post
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Please no. I'm more than happy with eventual nerfs of content or stacking buffs (ala ICC in WoW:WotLK), but a big part of MMOs is swinging around your e-peen (read as: gear) and when that gets devalued to having slightly different colours of gear to differentiate between someone who is terrible and someone who is at the peak of progression it becomes quite disappointing. WoW handled this somewhat well with the mounts/titles but at the same time it felt like the drive for the average player to improve and get into a good/high-end guild dropped very dramatically as soon as WOTLK came out and this setup was introduced.

Don't get me wrong - everyone should be able to see the content in the game, that's what they're paying for, but having easy modes of fights (i.e. not hard modes by default) you simply wind up with an epidemic of people in "welfare epics" who have no drive to ever improve.