There is nothing wrong with leveling slow, especially this game. I enjoy taking time working my way through the story and appreciating it. I play with a couple of friends from work, and sometimes we have to help each other get caught up, but otherwise it's a LOT of fun when you run quests with friends. I've had the opportunity to burn a character to 50 as fast as I can, but what's the point? Do you get some sort of medal for being 50 already? I think if you give this game another month, then there will be a healthy population of level 50 players to group with.

You sir, are a moron. If you actually knew anything about the game you worship so much, you would know that the 'ranked' honor system in WoW was not released until...wait for it.... PATCH 1.4! This was released in May 5th 2005. WoW was released on November 23rd 2004. Let's count the days between those two events, shall we? In case you are bad at math, that is...wait for it... 163 days 3912 hours 234,720 minutes after it was released.