EQ live has plans to do something like this this year as well. It was in the producer's letter. Its spreading throughout the commercial MMO's lately. One of the main purposes is to combat power leveling. Its pretty rampant on EQ live for newbies to get into power leveling groups with mages beaming or SK's swarming, etc and burn through a few levels or 500 AA's for about 50K pp.
Whether it helps or hurts the power leveling market depends on how they implement it. We have to wait and see. It is another tick up on the EZMode dial though either way IMO.
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