The story about the party was just me giving back story to my issue lol. I know 4 hours straight is a bit riDONKculous just to get those drops.

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The reason MMOs go this route is because it helps pad out content, but hopefully this team can produce enough to keep us genuinely busy eventually.
True, but I have a strong feeling that even once this game has been out for 3 years and has much more content, the base of the game will still be a time sink in that most of the activities we will be able to do will be designed for us to spend lots of time doing it. But thats the thing, that's just part of what MMO's are. My question is; if it's possible for an MMO to exist without that design philosophy and still be played as much as whatever popular MMO's that are out now?