My only concern was that it seemed like the incarnate trials were starting to pull the veterans away from L1-L50 content and into the post-50s, to the detriment of the younger section of community.
This is an interesting perspective. I think, in part, it depended on your server. I think I can safely say that there were some groups of players who played exclusive of all others - i.e. SG only, or family only, that kind of thing. I'd met a few of them in game while at the market and other places. I came across one who wanted to do incarnate stuff, but none of his SG mates wanted to - mainly because they were F2P and couldn't. In fact, I think there were a lot of players who didn't do incarnate content because they found sub-50 levels to be fun enough, so why pay money? I raise this point because in a lot of cases, the detriment of the younger section of community (if there was one) was because they were unwilling to sub. Perhaps, if the option to sub were not an option, they might have continued to pay - I can't say, as I never got a look at the accounting.
As for those who were subbed and simply didn't enjoy the incarnate content, what would you have had those of us who did enjoy iTrials do? Stop doing them, team with the lowbies so they could catch up in level, and then roll another alt and start over?
In my case, I played the lower level characters during the day and the incarnate level characters in the evenings. On Liberty, evenings were about the only times you could get enough people to show up so that was the pattern of play I used.
I do want to say that I did see a....divide, if you will, of players who did iTrials, and other players who just didn't like them for whatever reason. They weren't right or wrong, just different. The same goes the other way. Those who liked iTrials weren't right or wrong, just different.
