Quote Originally Posted by Backdrifter View Post
Let's get away from the old MMORPG tropes and have it be something unique. For instance, how many MMORPG rely on the dps, tank, and healer setup? Also, cooldowns in general just make me feel like I'm playing games that are clones of each other.

And before you say, it will never work! Remember, we're talking about making a new game here. It needs some creativity, and don't be someone not willing to think outside of the box due to fear of change.
Blizzard and SE seem to be the only ones who manage to maintain a succesful non-niche trinity role based MMORPG. From what I read there is still a pretty big demand for such games (as is also evident with popularity of these games) and MMO market is very lacking right now when it comes to that. I kind of doubt SE will risk getting out of this position by creating a more niche type of MMORPG.

I'm sure there are many MMO players who play either FFXIV or WoW but would drop both in a heartbeat if a solid new "WoW clone" would come out, because they're unsatisfied with current market which may be lacking due to inability to compete with WoW and FFXIV. I don't think SE wants to give up that position.

Now I'm basing this purely from what've read in forums which tends to not always be representative of actual gaming communites so who knows. Personally, I think I would drop FFXIV at least momentarily if a good competitor "WoW like" MMO would come out. Biggest reason why I don't play WoW is because I don't want to support Blizzard anymore.