User blog comment:KillHil/Got Questions for Gearbox about Borderlands 2?/@comment-2005959-20120319171105/@comment-667748-20120321152741

My personal experience is that "auto scaling" NEVER works. You usually end up playing the ENTIRE game at a fixed "scaling too easy" or "scaling too hard".

I'd MUCH rather rather that you have to WORK for the experience, exploring for the sake of exploring and gaining stuff. Failure to do so would lead you to enemies that will whoop your ass, Diablo style.

Heck, when I play PT1/PT2, I have to take measure to skip missions, and NEVER stray from the path, just to try not to be too over-leveled.