RPGVault is up to part 7 in their Online Worlds Roundtable series, with the latest conversation between MMORPG developers explores the well known level treadmill. Mythic's own DAoC Executive Producer Matt Firor was one of the developers asked to share his thoughts on this topic, below is a snippet from Matt's response, click here to read the full article:

As the developer of an online MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, I hear many discussions about player advancement "treadmills" and how they are bad for games in general. My usual counterpoint to this is, well, what game isn't a treadmill?