Why Raise the Level Cap Again?

Because it is how MMO's work.

And instead of raising the cap 10 levels once in a couple years they do it 5 levels a year.

Progression is the name of the game. Without constant striving, we'd get bored. At some point, there has to be another rung added to the ladder.

100k health here we come!
Seriously , was I the only one annoyed when in WoW players started having 300k+ health and dealing 100k+ damage. It looks like the 1 button mashing diablo 3 with wild numbers surrounding you. Let's not go there yet.

I enjoy it when we have something new to strive for. There's only so much one can do doing lvl 55 content over and over and over again. I KNOW MMOs are all about the grind for whatever is in the game, but increasing the level cap once or twice a year giving old players who took a break a reason to come back or new players something new and shiny to do. I do love being 55, but with more levels comes new planets, new content, something different to do. I don't mind the level caps as long as we're not suddenly told we'll be expected to hit level 100 in two years...that'd be a little TOO excessive IMO.

Players want to feel that their characters advance.

One way to do that is level cap increase.

Another way to do that is to buff via gear.

Either way you do it, you wind up with the same problem - players become overpowered for older content. You solve that by continuously creating new content.

It's not just MMO's that raise the level cap, MW3 had 2 level increases just a few months apart.

I don't mind this...as long as it comes SLOWLY. Like we'll get there in 5-6 years. If they up us to 60 and we get 100k health at the end dps, heals, or tank, THEN I'd be annoyed.

I would have liked not to have had the level cap raise to 55 in the first place, but BioWare has no idea how to do horiuontal progression, so they copy most other MMOs with the vertical progress as endgame, and that leads to increasing level caps from time to time.

They could raise the level cap without increasing the power level. But I guess that would be rather pointless.

I am totally onboard with a level cap increase but I hope the developers are ready to deal with power creep.

And this is a pretty terrible reason to do it.

Level cap raises really puts a burden on players with lots of alts, and this game encourages lots of alts through the way class stories work. Also raising the cap means leaving old content behind, or revamping it for the new cap.

There have been MMOs that aren't so willy nilly with raising the level cap, only doing so with some really special system that is being added to make it feel more special. I guess ultimately level caps raises are popular because it forces the players to do the content that is in place for leveling no matter how terrible it is.

I think they should just take a leap, raise the cap to 84 and be done with it for a while.