should mmo's make leveling take so long?

[Senex]

for games like wow it seems the key reason for making leveling take so long is to force people to play longer, however the biggest problem I've seen and heard of is that it is simply unhealthy people devoting far too many hours to something dubbed grind which barely regarded as actual gameplay.

 

[Curtmiester]

Well if it was easy then there would be to many lv 100s running around starting areas PWNING All THE NOOBS!

 

[ravensshade]

while the current rate is mostly fine
there are some games that should raise the speed though..
when you can get to say lvl 60
and it allready takes you a day to get from lvl 23 to lvl 24

 

[Senex]

well people are generally all level eighties or all level tens anyway but for the most part I'm wondering if it is possible to create a system where success by being clever rather then devoting far too many hours to a single game