Personally I think the genre has hit an impass. People want to have a friendly, helping community but at the same time people cry they don't have time for slow games, they have real lives now, and want streamlined content. I don't think mmos are for you if you don't have the kind of time they "used" to take. The reason is hard content builds a community. Most everyone on these forums will remember xi. I played xi from dec 2004 until abysea or w/e expansion was released. I started playing wow at that time, some of my family had been on it for years and convinced me to try it. The first thing I noticed right away is how detached my character felt. You had to put in an incredible amount of time to really accomplish things on your character in xi, so you either learned to get along with others and help people too, or you were labled badly, quit, tried to reroll maybe only to find out it would take you way too long to even reach where you were before, so you quit the game.