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It's quite possible that Japanese don't grind the way Koreans do and choose to enjoy MMOs in a more leisurely way, like treating it like a chatroom with graphics (the 8th Shopping District comes to mind).
It's also possible that the 100-hours-to-90 is spoken from Leo's PoV, aka from how it is like in the West, which might be different from how it is in Japan =3.
And like what Lazgrane mentioned, the level 90 cap was introduced only three years ago. In between, a lot can happen, like old-timers dropping out or cutting down their playing time due to RL stuff (like Naotsugu and to a certain extent, Nyanta and Kanami).
And of course, it could also be that Mamare didn't think this though thoroughly enough and might just change it when the side-story gets published (eventually) :heh
Btw, I checked the timeline in the wikis and... I dunno, but ET really takes its time raising the level cap. It took seven years for the first raise (50 to 60) and after that three~four years would pass before the next raise (always by 10 levels).
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