Quote Originally Posted by FunkYeahDragons View Post
The point is not to experience story content alone for the vast, vast majority of MMO players. Most interaction with others is done at endgame, and you'll have 100+ filler quests between ARR and HW alone before you can even get into the most recent expansion pack of content.
No, that explanation doesn't work. Because from lvl 10 onwards, you get all kinds of group content that you need to do. Especially at 50, even.
And people actually complain about that. Yes. They get to play with others and complain about that. So saying "Oh they want to reach HW fast to play with others" is bullsh*t because they CAN play with others before that and want to skip it as well.
So Taika totally has a point. Instead of enjoying the experience (be it story, questing OR group content), they just want to rush to endgame because they sooomehow think it's..better? Great? Special? Whatever.

Also, thanks to level sync being a thing, even their max level friends can join them in any and all content, no matter which level the new player is. So no reason to "rush" for the end either as it is perfectly possible to play together before that.