[Rant] This game's practically dead in terms of actual content.

You clearly haven't played that many mmorpgs then. I can name plenty that have reasonable progression that take time, effort and maybe luck but no to the extent of MS where it takes ridiculous amount of time and/or money to get anywhere.

I have more fun playing Guild Wars 2 without really knowing anyone than I did with MapleStory at the end of my tenure there, for example.