If you just reach 60 and complain that the grind is annoying/hard then this isnt the genre for you.
You see Nugs, the biggest problem of your thought process, and I can’t blame you, is that you played grind type of games for so long, that those companies actually persuaded you that’s how it’s supposed to be. And that is very very sad.
And because of people like you, me, and many others, garbage type of games like this one are coming out, people keep buying them and we keep telling to each other “this is how it’s suppose to be, MMO’s are grindy by nature”. But that is the failed mental model we accepted, forgetting that games are supposed to be fun, not feel like a chore.
MMOS today are literally as if you lived your life from now until 10 years from now, ignoring everything inbetween. But life, just like a video game, has to be a journey you enjoy along that entire path. What you are essentially saying here is that, MMO as a genre is something where you MUST farm/grind hard and then eventually, you will get rewarded.
So for all of you out there. No, games are not supposed to be like this. Games are supposed to be fun, mechanics are supposed to be engaging and you most certainly shouldn’t ever need to open chests for 6 hours every day, so potentially, after 1000 hours, you might get some items.
If we keep justifying shit games like this with arguments like “then this game is not for you”, they will just keep dying before they are even released. That’s why MMO’s as a genre has been declining on yearly basis. People have hobbies, real lives, friends, jobs, and most certainly, the majority don’t want to press “E” button on boxes 6 hours a day.
Cheers