User blog comment:Steelside/Do You Believe in Skill Caps?/@comment-189.101.140.110-20120614201658/@comment-4411463-20120619023858

On the contraty, it's completely relevant to the topic.

Assume death didn't exist. Would there be a skill cap then? No, because you'd be able to keep playing and playing and forever improving your skill. Death however puts a stopper on that because once you die you are no longer able to improve your skill. This is not a hard skill cap per se, because your skill cap could've gone beyond what was achieved.