This is absolutely true, especially for a game like ddo that goes all the way up to legendary and r10 difficulties. I wish ddo would have figured out a way to make people play more alts. I think that would have lessened the amount of power gap between 1st lifers and completionists. I've taken numerous breaks over the years, and everytime I come back I tell myself I'm going to bust out all of these past lives. Then I realize just how long that will actually take haha. Now I just play to have fun, but it's not that much fun knowing my "powerful" character is stuck in the TR train loop, and I'll probably never be able to leave him at cap since he has the most past lives and I don't want to start over with another character.