Quote Originally Posted by ElazulHP View Post
I'm convinced the MMO genre is essentially dead besides this game. The innovation is gone. Everyone just wants to build a cash shop and then wrap a bare bones game around it and cash in as much as possible these days.
You can say that about pretty much any genre these days, since if you don't look very far that's all what the big corporations are doing...

There's plenty of up and coming MMO's that don't seem too bad:

Blue Protocol (Bandai Namco)
New World (Amazon... Yes, THAT Amazon. They're making an MMO)
Magic: Legends (Cryptic Studios. Yes, this is a MTG MMO)
Corepunk (Artificial Core)
Phantasy Star Online 2 (SEGA. This has been out for years, but is finally getting a Western release, complete with ALL content)
Project TL (NCSoft)

Of course, some of these might turn out to be duds upon release, but at the very least, PSO2 and Blue Protocol should be good given that they're only coming to the West due to how well they've done in Japan.