Lack of End Game Content

[Millybonk]

It's hard to swallow something like "this endgame is unsustainable" when...it is actually very sustainable. It's sustained for almost 6 years now. In fact the last time endgame was in trouble was when Savage was overturned and world first raiders took longer than a week to kill it.

I stand by my statement that this endgame works. I think it works much better now that Ultimate was conceived. I think the time between Ultimate and Savage is good, it gives even non-week-1 killers ample time to get BiS to tackle it.

Savage could be better. I don't think that means (nor am I saying that's your statement) it's in a bad place. I say this as someone who's killed both Ultimates several times, and killed E4S week 1, before there's any insinuation that I'm a casual stating this.

What do you mean by sustainable:

• Do you refer to the always same iteration of the release cycle, and the fact that game is still running while using said release cycle?
• Do you refer to that only a fraction of people even bother with endgame activities and its sustainable this way, as even if all of them left the game would still be running?

This endgame doesn't really "work" for anyone seeking challenging content, or challenging content outside of Ex/savage:

• 3 lvl 80 dungeons, 3 trials up to lvl 80, Ex trials, 1 raid, Savage raid - that's it until the next major release; and if you're like me who rather has challenging group, but not raid content you can leave the minute you've done all 3 dungeons, as there is just nothing left
• There are only so many repetitions you're doing of the current endgame content until you either don't play your lvl 80 anymore and focus on other activities, or you unsub until the next major patch

Theme-park MMORPGs are like a buffet, as you should have food for your different customer groups/personas, but currently the "wants challenging content" group only has a tiny selection of food it can eat - and if I were the host of said buffet I'd make sure that even that particular group has enough variety to chose from.