Aren't limitations usually bad? (By definition)
This is the wrongest statement that seems to have some weight under it. People will argue to death that limitations are bad and that we should have "freedom" but this isn't true if it makes the game less fun. In professional sports there are all sorts of limitations because THAT is what makes the sport enjoyable. If you take hockey or soccer and you remove all offsides, icings, fouls, free kicks, etc. etc. and let everyone do anything the sport becomes bland and not enjoyable. The game needs to have set rules, imo armor rank limitations gives you an incentive to work towards something. Right now as it sits the armor in this game is for aesthetics only because for one the game isn't challenging to the point where it requires you to care that much for your armor and two the stat differences between armor sets are irrelevant. I'm pretty sure they'll keep it as is for armor already in the game and I think in the future they'll add more "free for all" armor but Its obvious they're going with restricted armor too now, I just hope they can balance it.