Why is there still so much to do at end game?

[amnie]

I would not call that your average player.

I am more hardcore then normal... but I went from 1-30 in 2 days.

If you played for nearly 90days and are only level 30... you are simply not playing the game.

and again with the dictating how people have to play 'correctly' to 'play the game'

Because there's a little thing called 1.0 that was up for 2 whole years giving plenty of time to people to level up pretty much every class and if not at least finish the rest in ARR, leaving them with only the gear and tome grind and Coils to do every Monday with nothing else to do.

you know, I played 1.0 up until about march/april 2012 (don't remember when I stopped exactly but my sub ran out in april) and what was my highest level at the end?
21.

how the hell does that say anything about the majority?

while I too think that 30 is probably stacking a little low, claiming the majority is 50 is just ignorant, nothing else.

edit:
nobody says people who are lvl 50 for a while and have done everything they like have no reason to be bored.
but that doesn't mean that there is nothing else to do or that they are forced to not enjoy the game just because they don't want to. I'm not telling you to force yourself to roll a new character, play a doh/dol class, craft something for ls/fc members, help lowbies out with the in-demand classes in level-up dungeons, get all the minions, try to get all the achievements, play the black market board to make gil, farm stuff to give it away for free, chat up with random people, role-play, do dungeons in sub-par gear to have a bigger challenge (or do them with a member less, which is tricky with the DF system, but doable).. but those options are there. you just don't like them and want content that is specifically catering to your likes.

(same as in ARR there were fast ways to level at the end of 1.0. and they were just as boring/borderline cheating as it is with fates now. no, I'm not calling fates cheating, but I do consider the lvl 50 mobs slaying a rather cheap way to level up in 1.0)