Confirmed in a one on one interview with Dave Georgeson found at
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/eve...ave-georgeson/ at 5:26 that because of there not being a vertical progression system (there not being levels in the game) there isn't going to be "end game raiding". This sucks IMO, while personally I've found myself not participating in raids more often because of time constraints, this seems like a staple of mmos, but more so a staple of Everquest, they really invented the raiding scene. As memory serves the mmos of 1999 that I knew of (asherons call and UO) didn't offer raiding. I think that will be a big turn off for players as it was for guild wars 2.