My issue with Blizzards new "gearing through LFR" game design.

[-Superman-]

So your solution is to put obnoxious walls in place and continue to hand out wellfare valor? Im sure theres a better option than that.

And if they are needing to slow content to keep people subbed then thats an underlying problem thats only going to get worse.

It's the way it started out. Deliver new content and keep people subbed. Only problem was that people with too much free time were getting geared in 6 hours and clearing the raid 2 weeks later. Then unsubbing and waiting for next patch became a thing. The only way to keep people subbed is to speed up content and slow down processes. This is why people hated BiS gear behind dailies. It is true you can get into heroics without ever doing a daily, but it still ticked people off. Personally, I like that they are trying to even out raiding by speeding up the content releases, slowing the gearing just a bit, and making it available to everyone (via the LFR). Pretty sure it is just the elitists in a rush who actually have the issues and the other 95% of players could care less

[Crashdummy]

Weird. It's almost like they want to slow the pace of gearing to keep people subbed between content patches and expansions. It's almost as though they are moving away from getting geared in 2 days and finish raiding in 1 week on purpose! Seems like a game based on subs should control the pace to keep subs active.

I thinki they should do the same thing they are doing with conquest points in 5.2 to valor.

So if you join today, your cap would bethe sumed caps from the 5.2 launch.

[saucywench]

The alternative solution is micropayment for content. Want a new raid lockout? That will be $0.75!

This might just be a viable option