The only people that have reached 80 have done it either through the exploit or some other mechanism (the guy that did it first had his whole guild giving him crafting materials then he did it with crafting) The average user will easily get 150-200 hours before 80 I would have thought.
And where exactly did you hear that? Because you are completely wrong.
Oh and the guy that got to 80 first was not an exploit, he did it legit to 60 and then got his friends to send him materials to get to 80, it's not an exploit, its smart.
I said other mechanism that 99.9% of players won't do. Judging the length of a game based on a few exceptional cases is ridiculous. That's like judging the length of other games based on speed runs.
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