Quote Originally Posted by YukikoKurosawa View Post
Always baffles me to see people play this game where there is a plethora of content outside of raiding, and previous expansion raiding is kept relevant and challenging on top of that (you can do hardcore content from ARR to this day, people still spend hours if not days wiping on lvl 50 extremes with min ilevel and no echo, or still just do them for mounts and glams), who are ONLY interested in playing the latest content patch and nothing else. "Endgame" fixation is a cancer on the MMO genre and it saddens me that we have this game that finally avoids it and yet countless people still play with that "endgame only" mindset and will miss out on everything else simply because WoW normalized this mentality.
It's because all the other MMO's basically brainwashed the masses with the gear-chasing carrot on a stick. 14 avoids even *that* with all the catch up gear that gets added every patch.

Sure if the newest content is your thing, more power to you. Raiding, perfecting rotation, etc... It can be absolutely thrilling. It's not the entire playerbase though, so I 100% agree with you. The mindset of having to get to "endgame" to experience the "real game" makes no sense in regards to 14. There's content EVERYWHERE throughout the leveling process that absolutely still remains relevant.