After playing all weekend where i was able to just disappear into the world, I'm in love!!! this is an mmorpg, finally!!!
Reading above Poopsnacker, that's your fault, if you want to bum rush games to cap and then go on forums and cry about it is 100% your problem.
I easily dumped around 30 hours this weekend, a total of 50+ according to steam and i'm only level 24, i'm testing out new weps, builds, harvesting, crafting, exploring, even my excessive playing by the time i start to cap out will be in close proximity to new (whatever), meaning the average normal player has nothing to worry about for quite sometime.
My one buddy who is hamming this game pretty hard is only 32 ffs. You bum rushed the game, that's what you do, and your situation is completely irrelevant to a normal player as they won't be in that boat for a very long time to come. So grats my dude!!! you won the game now you can go ruin another one for yourself.