The thing I don't understand about level gating the starting area is that we can't properly test the balance of things at higher levels. That is what EA is supposed to do for the devs, help them test the game. I understand why they want to restrict the content to Act 1 as content can be informed by other content. But level gating the characters makes no sense.
Yeah, I can understand if they want to trickle out content so they can get more focused testing on a limited set of levels and abilities. But I think we have tested what little there is to test within the first four levels now.
