Quote Originally Posted by Mattmar42 View Post
Wow did not have onyxia or mc for months. As somebody who played from beta, you had scholo, ubrs, lbrs, dire maul, and another five man I'm forgetting for quite a time. There was a number of people who went hard fully geared in tier 0 before mc release.
You're thinking of Stratholme, I think.

Also, I doublechecked.

MC and Onyxia were in at launch/release.

Maybe not in beta, but they were definitely in at launch. Wikipedia and WoWWiki both say so.

So there you go. Some MMORPGs did do it right. WoW, SWTOR and Rift are the only three that come to mind, but I am certain there are others that had "adequate" endgame content at release. FFXIV definitely doesn't, though.