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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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levels =/= gearing in terms of devaluing older expansions. Levels will trivialize older content but gear can make it outright irrelevant.
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sure, leveling will "trivialize" older content while gear will make it "outright irrelevant." these are definitely real different things with real differences that have real gameplay implications, rather than a graphite-thin rhetorical straw for which you have reflexively grasped to momentarily convince yourself the torrent of chatter you're emitting has some connection to the reality in which the rest of us live.
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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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One of the lessons I wish the gaming industry could learn from p99 is that it ran the first two expansions for what, 8 years? and the economy was strong all the way through. Static player base. Active community. And all with zero expansions, just bug fixes and ascetic changes.
Very impressive. It seems like games think they need to make huge updates to keep players interested when really, just tightening up the graphics on level 3 for a few years while we re-roll and re-roll and re-roll, is a perfectly balanced and IMO better way to manage mmo expansions.
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hmm yes this must have continued to happen in spite of velious, a badly itemized expansion.