Quote Originally Posted by traja View Post
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.
At launch, it had GSB and a few expert dungeons. RoS was out quickly though, and a good 9 months or so from RoS release to HK. There is a reason that game has failed too(devs took the endgame PvE content in the casual direction) Some of the most buggy raids I've ever seen. The game turned into an exact carbon copy of WoW and that's why it failed.