Character Growth: Leveling is part of RPGs

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XI's pace was perfect because it had content you could do in between of leveling or instead of leveling, plus by time most people finished leveling, SE released even more content. The problem with new age MMOs is they need to make leveling an afterthought and give you all content at once.

Farming beehive chips so that you could buy an overpriced NM drop or overpriced "must have +1" piece of gear so that you were up to "standard" is not content. Lolgarrison was so bad that they had to add manequin pieces to the drop pool to try to make people do them. Eco-warrior had the worst difficulty:reward ratio out of any event I've ever seen in an MMO.