Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Cynric]

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Last response to you because you wont listen no matter what I say. Which is fine, believe whatever you want to.

There are quests that take longer than 30 seconds to complete post, pre, and during WoWs popularity in many games. There are also quests post, pre, and during WoWs popularity that are fairly quick to complete. I can tell you for sure that whether it was 30 seconds or 2 weeks, not a lot of players cared to read the flavor text. The only thing they cared about was the reward. You even said it yourself, they do it for some item they want. You don't need that item to be relevant usually. Just like you can ignore every quest in pre or post WoW era and level however you want. It wont be as fast. But that's basically the same. Just like how pre/post WoW there were quests which have stories which you need to complete to progress further in those games.

As for games I can't name all of them, but I can tell you I played most of the MMO's out back then. FFXI is probably the only game that took you years to hit max level before the level cap was even raised.

Also no not just at level 1. Levels 10's aren't usually killed solo by 11-13, and this trend usually echoed though most games and all the way to level cap. There are and were very few games(if any) with as dangerous an open world as FFXI. This has nothing to do with WoW at all.

[Meshico]

I like this post from the OP, and the translator.

Thank you for this and if you guys agree, make sure you hit "like"