Pink Bean - An in-depth look

But because this is an online game, whatever is the current highest level content, THAT is endgame. It doesn't matter if endgame will shift in a few years or a few months even.

For example, Zakum used to be endgame. Horntail is now for us. How would it be if Zakum was all jokey and not hardcore at all, and someone tried justifying it by saying "oh don't worry, you'll get a serious boss in a few years lol".

What's so bad about a jokey boss? Do we have to have all of our bosses these omnious mini-gods? Obviously when Nexon Korea made this, they were going for a humor boss run, instead of a "Ok, let's do this. *holds down shift* *falls asleep*" boss.
Besides, at this day and age, eight billion HP sounds like a lot, but so did Zakum's 400m-ish, back in the day. Now people are soloing it, and parties can take it out in minutes. After we get more 4th job weapons, Pink Pikachu will still be a strong boss, but it won't be an unbeatable god. At that point, it'll hardly be "hard core".

If you could just walk into people and kill them, you'd think they were a joke too.

Very well said.