End game... Bored. The facts.

[Miiu]

What did Rift have at launch? I can't remember but I think it might have had more. But still overall you are right, none of them ever launch with a solid end game. The only semi exceptions to this are WoW expansions which launch with a whole new continent and a lot of end game dungeon and raid content. But still an expansion is an expansion so the comparison isn't fair, well, it is a little bit fair because this is a relaunch.

But be it reasonable or fair, doesn't matter. The reality is that all of the theme park MMOs that launched without an end game are now F2P. People get bored despite of excuses.

You forget about FFXI which added new areas and classes in their expansion too. If you take the FFXI japanese launch you had the same level cap as FFXIV does (50) and a whole lot of jobs missing. Most people don't know or remember this is because when FFXI was released in the US it had the first expansion included because it was already out for over a year in Japan. And here comes the shocker 11 Years later the game is still not F2P.