How do you define end game? This has been a long conversation and it is hard to define. Many "end game" toons and raid tiers are accomplished by a very wide range of players within a fairly short time after they are released.
New gear and levels are achieved across the board and are always made more accessible as time goes on.
I see this as thier attempt to put a "line in the sand" of what is end game content. Like it or not, this is not a bad thing. If this is a slow evolution into the future of the game it could even be a good thing. This sets goals and helps players make more solid roadmaps of what they need to do to get to "the next tier" in game.
Many players get lost along the way when developing in this game, this could help with that. We also need to remember that from the current information we have it seems like no single reward is locked behind this gate.
Again we have many locks in place already lock content behind some barrier, and those do lock rewards behind them.
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About the warning message-
We have no content that has a warning that people do not complain about. This is also the type of event that you cant fail and do the lower tier, you are locked in. This is a different situation than we have seen before, and I think it's nice they are trying to avoid this on the front end.
