Gnk! Thank you for starting this thread.
I was against wipe before, and i stand with my original opinion. For me, i will recover regardless, but i don't see wipes as a fix for anything, especially as a chill pill for the wipe-crazed who demand changes [out of boredom]. As for PvP, Town Control, etc...i was able to do this before wipe with multiple characters, but not anymore. I work all day. I will always recover but it takes time to do it all again. No complaints - just stating the facts. So wipe reduces PvP for a while. The big teams, i salute their tenacity/ingenuity, as they are doing TC on Day 2 after a wipe lol. But that won't ever be me - i start up much slower than that.
TC in Season 1 though, we had this one awesome goal. It was a goal so fantastic that guys would labor for hours checking lockers, leveling "an even better fighter", crafting all that ammo and doing whatever it took to achieve that goal: IMPLANTS! Oops, no more implants now. So for some, the motivation is less.