"By gradually introducing new content that steadily obsoletes the old content, the advantages of the old players is significantly diminished."

+1 to Roda, this is the established way to do things in MMO games.

+1 to Roda

+1 Roda

I have no intention of doing this kind of reset. There are many better ways of dealing with things. Resetting people's inventories is not a good one.

The only thing that would drive a choice like that would be a really awful technical trade-off, which would never be about inventories in general, but could be possible in some very specific situation. Still, there's almost always some better way of handling things than just zeroing everyone out.

A more workable solution would be to simply roll 2.0 as as a new world and run it along side VO 1.0. This would let the players choose to reset themselves - and most would do so willingly with a lot less resentment

I just don't really see a compelling need, given our current trajectory.

Aye - you seem to have a few years before you have to worry about it.... still plenty of minor version numbers left :P

Heh, no, not because of that. I expect some pretty massive changes this year. I just don't see a need to reset anyone's progress, where a lot of the next-generation progressions will be orthogonal anyway.

A lot of the "advantages" of vets may not be that meaningful anyway, and the biggest "advantage" (actual experience in playing and fighting) is something that is unchanged by any kind of character reset.