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What does raising the maximum character level in a persistent online world really achieve, other than allowing people to take on new, higher-level content? When did that become the norm for an MMO expansion anyway? Here you go, progression-starved endgamers, here's a race to a new progression-starved top level.I accept that new content can be brilliant fun, but it also has a weird effect on everything that came before it. It makes it all seem a bit worthless, all that stuff you spent hundreds of hours collecting. You can't shake the feeling that if it can happen once then it can happen again, so why bother?
That's why it's good to have a bit of chaos - something radical - to shake things up. Radical might seem like a strong word, but ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2 shook the MMO totem pole hard when it was released. We have no group holy trinity of tank, healer and damage-dealers! We have no subscription fee! We walk around the office in our socks! But I worried that the revolutionary spirit had petered out since then and become flattened by the day-to-day practicalities of keeping an MMO going.
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