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Originally Posted by Champion_Standing
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I seriously doubt that selling or giving away lvl 85s with a subscription is motivated by the fact that the game doesn't start till 85. People just want that shortcut. We even saw it here, people would threaten to quit this server every time the issue of banning account sales got brought up because leveling up toons was too boring and they demanded the right to buy their lvl 60s instead of level them. But while the sales were allowed here the market was booming, people want that shortcut of getting to max level or a high level quickly, even here in our little "classic" corner of the internet.
The other thing they doing is the smart thing and taking control of a market that already exists, if SOE didn't let you create lvl 85s the Chinese gold farmers would be happy to step up and sell you one.
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It's not so much that the game doesn't "start" until 85, it's that there's no point in doing any of it before that point except for sentimental value/fun. WoW is in the exact same place at the moment, and has done the same thing- they made it so you can get 1-80 in like three days, offered special deals where you could buy levels for your characters, that sort of thing. Because unless you get it in your head that you WANT to go and kill Ragnaros just for fun, there is 0 point in doing so. The gear is phenomenally obsolete- you can buy gear that's four times better from vendors in Mists of Pandaria for as much gold as it takes to buy like, a bag. But at level 80, you can just go solo him. So basically every second you spend not being level 80 you're immersed in trivial content that is completely meaningless- your gear is obsolete before you get it, there are very few people (in the case of wow very few, in the case of EQ NONE) who you can group with and kill with for levels, it's pointless. So you just jump to the first level that matters and save yourself the time and if you want to go back and kill some outdated content by yourself, it's open.
Can you imagine leveling 1-90 on EQ with no one to group with, knowing full well that every drop you get is absurdly underpowered for the next expansion that you reach? You hit level 60 and it's like, ok, well, I am shamefully underequipped to kill planes of power mobs because I never got to raid or kill any interesting group mobs because I've been solo this whole time... that'll be interesting. Ok, now I'm level 70, and the same thing applies for Gates of Discord (in fact, moreso) man I'm screwed.
My paladin was 65 when I reactivated a couple years ago to see what was up. I had to solo to 70 on mobs that I couldn't solo because I was in PoP gear and the GoD gear was psychotic, but I couldn't get my hands on any of it because I was solo. It was this horrible Kafkaesque clusterfuck of exp grinding and I made it like three levels before I gave up and said I'm never coming back.