I think the exact opposite is true. And I believe you might have lost the perspective of how it feels to be new in this game.
Think about all the players coming back from pre-merge getting their characters back at 0 levels in anything. They might want to jump back into the game and not invest another 3 years to just catch up to everyone that has been playing for a long time. What they will do is what many new players do when they join the game: leave it again.
Please try to think about how players feel about this game that haven't been a part of it for the many many years that you have. And it's not only new players. This change would adress many issues and would probably be very little effort for what it would give.
This change would likely result in more players that really love the game but can't invest years of grinding to just catch up to all the people they like.
Referring to the latest forge meeting: the amount of people getting back to the game is very high! We won't keep them here if we just say: well screw you, we don't give the levels back and also you will likely grind for many many months to just be able to do what other players do.
There even was a person coming back to the game some days ago that landed on Silan and talked about how he lost everything. Likely the frustration was very high. This change would not harm anyone that has been playing for long and will definitely make people stay longer.
Think about all the players coming back from pre-merge getting their characters back at 0 levels in anything. They might want to jump back into the game and not invest another 3 years to just catch up to everyone that has been playing for a long time. What they will do is what many new players do when they join the game: leave it again.
Please try to think about how players feel about this game that haven't been a part of it for the many many years that you have. And it's not only new players. This change would adress many issues and would probably be very little effort for what it would give.
This change would likely result in more players that really love the game but can't invest years of grinding to just catch up to all the people they like.
Referring to the latest forge meeting: the amount of people getting back to the game is very high! We won't keep them here if we just say: well screw you, we don't give the levels back and also you will likely grind for many many months to just be able to do what other players do.
There even was a person coming back to the game some days ago that landed on Silan and talked about how he lost everything. Likely the frustration was very high. This change would not harm anyone that has been playing for long and will definitely make people stay longer.