Is the game really over when you hit that milestone in Warhammer Online? It isn't officially over, but it makes 99% of the game pointless after you do reach renown rank 80.
I know many players who stopped playing after they hit it because RvR became boring without any goals.
With renown being worthless it takes any motivation out of taking battle objectives, keeps, zones, and cities. You only did it before for the renown, and now that is gone.
Many players that reached renown rank 80 just stopped playing immediately with that toon. The thought of handing out Sovereign pieces in zerg battles just made alot of players cringe. So most just shelved their toons, and played alts until IC reached the king kill. They would than log them in just for that.
So it defeats the main purpose of high renown rank players dropping this gear, and is the #1 reason Warhammer Online needs to add something to keep players playing once they hit renown rank 80.
I think they need to make renown ranks higher, and change the gear requirements on the RvR sets to match the new higher ranks.
I also wrote about a Nemesis Influence being implemented into the game once you reach renown rank 80 that keeps players playing.
How do you think they could keep players who are renown rank 80 playing those characters instead of alts?