Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
Ah, the usual saying "the wheel is round for a reason".
The flaw in it is that MMORPGs are on a completely different level of complexity than a wheel. The more complex something, the more viable ways there are to work with it. There's still plenty room for innovation in the genre. The problem is to appease to an audience used to a stifling, stagnant market, and carefully educated to be refractary to innovation.
For any innovation there are decades of failures. Less romanticizing, this is reality. You may think those ideas are great, but once they are put into the practical world, you'll realize they are stupid and full of consequences. Hey look FF14.

What are they an ice-cream company that releases a new flavor every month?