Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
Oh I know all about that type. The power gamers. It was very strange to see them in City of Heroes back when there was NO end game content to speak of. Once you hit 50, that character was done. You could keep playing to get more inf (read: money) but, at the time, there was nothing to buy. Yet people kept diving into whatever quest line they thought gave the most xp per minute and picking the flavor-of-the-month powersets. Why? I have no idea. I guess it was handy for PvP but PvP was never very popular in that game.I played wow for a while because a friend almost begged me and I couldn't immerse myself into, because everyone just completed quest as fast as possible, not reading any text (not that most quest texts are worth reading…), … well I think most of you already know that.
However, just because most people are power gamers it doesn't mean all people are power gamers. It didn't take long to find folks who were also into some light roleplaying and who liked reading the mission text. Once you find them (preferably folks in similar timzones), who cares what the rest of the players are doing?