good example of the journey to end game: First Vanilla WoW mount purchase at lvl 40. The leveling and the time taken to make 100g back in Vanilla. It sucked until I bought my Nightsaber.....good MMO journey.
I agree with some of what you are saying. But having reached end game in WoW, CoH, and other MMO's, I loved the journey. It was great to not have to set my schedule to "raid" or the equivalent. There was sometimes a lot of stress teaching 'new' raiders how to do new runs. Content I was able to do in an hour or two really…