| Donno about EQ2, but EQ1 is expanding levels this sept and it seems rather stupid for the reasons you mentioned.
But the one difference that makes EQ1 so retarded is because there is no real additional gameplay as you traverse these additional levels. Every level cap increase in EQ1 meant we spent 20 hours in X zone (ikkinz 1, wos/rss, 69.1) to gain the 5 additional levels.
If implemented like EQ1, there's really no reason for the level increase at all. For a game like WoW, the level increase is fairly necessary, since that is what's driving the gameplay. | 