Absence of end-game content : the downfall of every MMO.

[Haoma]

How is PVP not end-game? Look around at other mmos and what are people doing end-game.. PVP!

PvP is very rarely restricted to the end of the game; it's its own thing. People are entering WvWvW and flagging for PvP in GW2 at level 30--even lower than that in other MMOs (i.e., Neverwinter, FFXI, SW:TOR, etc.). At best, it's a diversion, not true end game.

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It doesn't matter what era you're in, games take time and resources to be developed. Now that gamers are expecting their games to follow standards and certain formulaic approaches, expect that it'll take even longer to develop a game and its content; It's not 1991 when a game would cost a couple tens of thousands of dollars to make, and only took about 6 months to a year to be developed and released by a bare bones team. Games haven't been that way since the Nintendo 64 first entered the scene.

We're talking about years upon years of development, hundreds of employees, and millions of dollars. Content costs money to make, so it has to go through a large pipeline (in order to minimize risk) before it gets released. Be realistic.