Whats with the zerg / speed run mentality?

[Garnatian]

This is the most grindy MMO out at the moment, so people like to get things done as fast as possible. I've played SWTOR/RIFT/WoW and I've never seen this crazy speed-run mentality, but that's mainly because they aren't grind-fests.

[Synestra]

This is the most grindy MMO out at the moment, so people like to get things done as fast as possible. I've played SWTOR/RIFT/WoW and I've never seen this crazy speed-run mentality, but that's mainly because they aren't grind-fests.

While this game might feel like "grindfest" in modern stantard it is still faraway from it, doing 8h+ farming everyday for 7days in row just to get one piece of equipment could be called grinding. MMO:s and MMO players mentality has changed ALOT in past 10 years, what used to be a main thing in MMO:s is today a curseword(grinding/farming). You should know this aswell as old WoW player because on its early days it was nothing but grinding, but it all changed at the end of TBC era when badges were added and HC key requrement was lowered from revered to honored untill whole idea got scrapped.