Back then we had a lot more players and veteran players that were used to what was expected and it was slightly easier to recover from a full loot back then too.

Explain? IMHO, with the additional areas and solid gear available, it's a lot easier to recover from a full loot now than it was in the past.

Sure we had numbers and more full looting back in the day, but likely back then the newcomers were just as quickly disgusted and left as they are now but now we have a smaller playerbase with which to attract as many newcomers as we did back then, see where I am going with this?

This I might buy, though it'd be hard to 'prove', since we don't have exit data from departing disgruntled newbies from then or now to support a claim like this. I mean, we all got full looted back in the day, and we're still here!

That being said, I will add that getting full looted pretty much sucks for most of us. If it sucks for veteran players, I can extrapolate that it would suck even more for newbies.

We've kicked around some ideas for making stripping corpses and destroying gear a bit harder than it currently is, without severely impacting gear distribution. Might be time to dust those off and readdress.

Kastellyn the Devourer of Magic, Lord of Legends