Finding 500 or 200 things isn’t an exaggeration? Haha, exactly. No one wants to sit there and grind for 8 hours a day to get the 400. WoW you don’t grind for hours on end, you go and complete quests where the max you have to kill or find is 20 or 30. The “higher level monsters” are bosses or high level elites in Instances/Dungeons/Raids/etc. that drop gear and other items that your character and use and do more damage with or heal better, etc. In WoW there is “PK” as well. Roll on a PvP server and you’re ALWAYS flagged for PvP, which allows you to be ganked and to gank others, etc.
DS, I’m trying to get what you mean by a “game that has no end” but yet finish it in 2 weeks? Wouldn’t you want to play a game that doesn’t technically end because it would continue to keep you entertained? What end does SRO have? Grinding 24/7 until it wears you out? I’d like to see you get to level 70 in 2 weeks, it honestly would impress the hell out of me but I know you can’t do it. And raiding would only extend it for 2 more weeks? Considering that the raid instances reset in 3 days, or once every week if you account in the old 40-man raids, then I don’t see how only 2 weeks would be added. Also, by the time you got to 70 you wouldn’t be immediately accepted into a Raiding guild to get your gear, etc. More than likely you’d be spending a couple of weeks getting your regular instance gear and possibly heroic instance gear. In the end you’ll be spending more like 4-6 MONTHS playing and enjoying a game that is always developing and changing rather than spending 4-6 weeks grinding and not having any sense of accomplishment.