Whats with the zerg / speed run mentality?

[Miiu]

A lot of it had to do with the tools available for gamemaking. Today content can be created/tested/implemented faster than 10 years ago. Most game engines don't have such strict restrictions anymore etc. They had to limit the progress in order to keep players busy until the next content was ready to be released.


*edit* Sure you can argue that in the past content didn't have to be created with hd textures in mind and so much surface details But still game developement has come a long way.