You guys would complain either way. Here some things to remember. 1. There are bounties that you have to play the iron banner to complete. This means they can't make it too unfair or normal people would never be able to complete them. Only the people that grind the game for 10 hours a day would get them. 2. matchmaking. If a lower level player could not survive in this mode, they wouldn't play it at all. That would make the pool smaller, and you guys would complain that games take for ever to find. Or you would not get connected a all. 3. a smaller pool of available players always makes for horrible connection problems. look at COD Ghosts for an example.