Setup wrote:(1) Apply this philosophy to your life and go kill yourself, since you're going to die anyway.
(2) Apply this philosophy to any other game and never start it, because it's just going to end anyway.
(3) Take a look at any number of the vanilla realms that have been around for a decade, you'll find players who have been there since day one.
But really, might wanna go back to the first point.
No one likes doing Molten Core/BWL for weeks/months with no end in sight. Many of the players on here from what I've seen have played across numerous other projects and came here for the quick content release schedule.
Yes, individuals might reside on certain realms since day 1 years later, but you'd be hard pressed to find a single guild that's been there since day 1. I'd like to kill Cthun and Kel Thuzad with my guild, but I can't guarantee every player in my guild will still be playing 2 years down the line (or even myself), and I'm sure many other players from other server clusters feel the same.