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Forced leveling? I'll just
have to go along with what other people think that means. If forced
leveling means a requirement to move through the game, such as "level 10
is required to move to Act II" etc. then no, there are no current plans to
put level requirements on progressing through the game.
As far as I'm aware it's hasn't been mentioned by a Blizzard employee as
being potentially included in Diablo III, but I could very well be
mistaken.
So this level requirement business is usually discussed as a solution to
'glitch rushing' or a way of quickly leveling a character through use of
bugs and loopholes. The assumption that these bugs and loopholes will
exist in Diablo III in the first place is somewhat of a stretch of logic
(maybe not as much as I'd like ;). So, the most obvious and popular
solution is a level requirement. And yeah, it could work, but unless you
can normalize XP gains you're probably fairly often going to be simply
holding people back for no good reason. They've completed the act
legitimately, but they're a single level shy of the requirement. Now they
have to go grind for no reason other than to level so they can continue
playing the game. It's not a very graceful solution. No, but there are
solutions... nay, improvements! in how progression through the game can be
handled. Ones that offer not only regulations on progression, but enhance
the game itself.
