Uh, Kiro, it's pretty clear you've never played WoW. WoW, while definitely involving grinding at certain sections of the game, is far less tedious than pretty much any other MMO I've ever played. While I haven't played Maple, in my experience, pretty much all of those Korean MMORPGs are what I like to call "leveling fetish" games, where the game starts out interesting and then you realize that in order to progress you have to kill no less than 7559 wimpy, easy to kill monsters. All the people I know that have played Maple have complained pretty mightily about how much of a grindfest it is.
I won't say WoW doesn't become a grindfest at times, because it certainly does, but at least they've really done a great job at mixing up the grinding with other stuff, especially in the expansion. Instead of just killing monsters, they have you go exploring, escort NPCs, bomb stuff on griffins, play Simon, run instances, and a ton of other gimmicks.
Obviously, with the proper group of friends, any MMORPG can be a huge amount of fun, and I will personally admit to playing Ragnarok Online for a rather long period of time on a private server, and that game is more of a grindfest than anything else I've ever played. If you like watching a little blue XP bar move very slowly, RO is for you.
I won't say WoW doesn't become a grindfest at times, because it certainly does, but at least they've really done a great job at mixing up the grinding with other stuff, especially in the expansion. Instead of just killing monsters, they have you go exploring, escort NPCs, bomb stuff on griffins, play Simon, run instances, and a ton of other gimmicks.
Obviously, with the proper group of friends, any MMORPG can be a huge amount of fun, and I will personally admit to playing Ragnarok Online for a rather long period of time on a private server, and that game is more of a grindfest than anything else I've ever played. If you like watching a little blue XP bar move very slowly, RO is for you.