Quote Originally Posted by karateorangutang View Post
SWOR was bioware's first foray into a real actual MMO.
ESO was developed by Zenimax which is a subsidiary from Bethesda... they didn't even participate in development outside of naming it.
Tera was made by Bluehole studios.... yup you guessed it low funding.

SE has capital. They can push this sort of thing to it's potential because of that. If you make a race car out of aluminum foil and a toothpick it wont go very fast. It's not the design, its the materials and money that can be pushed into it.
You kinda avoided my statement though: Money isn't going to make a boring game not boring, and the circumstances of their design choices doesn't change the fact they chose WoW's system and the failure that happened because of it. SE too had little time to rewrite the game so they decided to copy WoW and omitted or reused a lot of content (yet it didn't seem to change after HW either).