Have MMO players lost their way?

[jpem]

Not really. They have to make a game people will buy.

The saddest part of ARR is that if it was XI-2, it wouldn't have sold as well. They had to turn it into what it is now for it to be a mainstream game.

Doesn't that kind of prove his point? No one wants to make a great niche game, they will choose to make an average mainstream game instead. It's all about the money not the game.