Western Audiences = sheep

They follow what everyone else does. EQ -> WoW -> GW-> Tabula Rasa -> AoC -> WAR -> AION -> FFXIV -> RIFT -> SWTOR -> TERA/GW2, Apple craze/Apps, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefield, Skyrim, Twilight, Hunger Games, Mass Effect, the list goes on.

I find Japanese developers usually they try to mix up the formula a bit with some additions (they usually don't go over too well i.e. FFXII, FFXIII/2) Western developers however just rehash the same game and add a new number or subtitle and release it incomplete, and sucker people into buying pieces of the game in DLC. Too bad it sells. SE is slowly gravitating toward this model.

Just my opinion.