People saying that the game has to take casuals into consideration too are way off base. All the game does is take casuals into consideration. They completely run the game. It seems like we get massive player power buffs every other month. It seems we give gear/seed/whatever handouts every other month. Casuals aren't the people that Turbine are in danger of turning off from the game. It's powergamers.

There should be a system that awards better players with better/quicker rewards. This only makes sense. That's not to say that casuals shouldn't or wouldn't be able to play too. They have their own playground. The problem is that every month that playground grows exponentially at the cost of the powergamer playground.

And it just isn't casuals that are at fault here either. Every day, good players that are able to obliterate all content in this game start threads asking for a buff to this or a buff to that. It's all out of control.